She does politics to her own beat.
Combative rap queen Nikki Minaj called herself President Trump’s “number one fan” Wednesday — declaring defiantly that MAGA haters only make her sing his praises louder.
The “Super Bass” songstress flashed her signature glittery, two-inch nails as she held Trump’s hand and urged fans to defend him against “smear campaigns” at a Treasury Department event.
“I am probably the president’s number one fan, and that’s not going to change,” Minaj, 43, said after Trump, 79, invited her to speak at a summit touting new investment accounts for children.
“And the hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all,” proclaimed the Trinidad-born hip hop star. “It actually motivates me to support him more.”
The feud-prone, stubbornly independent-minded hitmaker — who raps, “a hundred mothaf-ckas can’t tell me nothin’” in her song “Beez in the Trap” — got a kiss on the cheek from the president ahead of her bold address.
The lovefest continued as the pop culture odd couple held hands on stage for roughly 30 seconds while “Shark Tank” judge Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary made remarks.
Minaj did not endorse Trump during his three campaigns for the White House, but last year lauded his defense of Nigerian Christians facing violence from Islamic terrorists.
“[There’s] almost nothing greater than teaching financial literacy to young people,” Minaj said at the event.
“I got out of high school and I thought everything was just going to be smooth sailing, but I realized quickly, ‘No, I have to work,’” Minaj said.
“I had to figure things out on my own if I wanted to live a certain way. And that’s what I did. But if I had access to something like this, my whole life would have been different,” she said.
Trump returned the compliment in part by gushing over her clawlike, two-inch nails.
“I am going to let my nails grow, because I love those nails,” he joked.
“She’s so good. She’s been MAGA, what can I say? She’s been with us all the way.”
The billionaire developer turned president has for decades drawn admiration from rappers — from unhinged genius Kanye West to convicted felon Lil Wayne — for his ostentatious lifestyle and unconventional policies.
Before running for president in 2016, “I was in so many rap songs. Like 79 or something — I was in every rap,” Trump boasted in a 2020 interview.
Latino rapper Lil Pump endorsed Trump in 2020 — with the president at one point mistakenly calling him “Lil Pimp” — and 50 Cent flirted with backing him citing concern he would become “20 Cent” under Democrat Joe Biden.
Rapper Lil Wayne endorsed Trump’s criminal-justice reform efforts and “Platinum Plan” to boost investment in black neighborhoods during the 2020 election, and later scored a gun-charge pardon from the president.
“This is a different president. This is a different kind of leader. This is a businessman,” Minaj said Wednesday.
