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Essential reading from @gerrick.bsky.social on Nicki Minaj and Trump. ftense.substack.com/p/pink-wig-m...
There's a tragic irony to watching a woman who built her career on shapeshifting morph into an avatar for a movement that harms the very communities that helped her amass her wealth. She's not MAGA's outlier, she's it's perfect avatar: the persecuted millionaire, the immigrant who supports those against immigration, the queer icon who doesn't actually respect queer folks. Minaj has seemed to learn what Trump has always known: that in this country, you can betray everything you came from and call it survival. That closing the door behind you, or pulling up the ladder after you've climbed it, isn't cruelty-it's just good business. And that the only thing more American than being oppressed, is turning into the oppressor.
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 PM