Rapper Nicki Minaj joins Trump on stage at Michigan rally ahead of midterms
Rapper Nicki Minaj joined President Donald Trump on stage at a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, to campaign for Republicans ahead of the nationwide midterm elections. At Sunday's rally she said Trump has 'changed the energy of the country'.
After Trump praised her and called her on stage to speak, Minaj said, 'He's given us a future to look forward to.'
Minaj has called herself Trump's 'number one fan', despite criticising some of his policies in his first term.
Wearing a gold-coloured Gucci-branded suit, Minaj led the crowd in Port Huron in chanting Trump's name and the names of Republican candidates in Michigan. She said, 'We really need all these great people to be elected, because this is a major turning point for our country.'
As she left the stage, Trump said, 'She never looked more beautiful. She gets it. She's smart.'
The 'Super Bass' singer had accompanied Trump to Michigan aboard Air Force One. She filmed a video with an aide on the president's plane, which was posted to X, pretending to be interviewing for the White House press secretary role.
The press secretary position is currently open after Katie Zacharia left five days after a shaky public debut.
In Michigan, Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is locked in a tight race with Republican Mike Rogers, with just over a week to go before the midterms. Former President Barack Obama held a rally with the Democrat on Saturday, one of the first in this cycle.
Close elections are taking place across the country on 3 November, which will decide which party controls Congress for the rest of Trump's presidency. Democrats are also aggressively hitting the campaign trail.
In his remarks on Sunday, Trump focused on El-Sayed's Muslim faith and background, alleging that he will 'invite jihadists' into America if he wins.
El-Sayed has criticised similar remarks by Trump as Islamophobic, saying in an ad to voters last week that the US president 'thinks he can use my name and my faith to distract us from the suffering his policies are inflicting on us at the pump, at the grocery store, and at the doctor's office'.
The Trinidad and Tobago-born rapper has thrown her star power behind Trump a few times before, including on his allegations that Christians face persecution in Nigeria and his 'gold card' visa, which offers applicants residency and a path to US citizenship.
