Nicki Minaj with President Donald Trump in January 2026 Credit: Daniel Torok, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

To quote a reality TV icon, this midterm season is “getting weird.”

Like, really weird.

Starting with how rapper Nicki Minaj has “one hell of a beautiful ass.”

Or at least that’s what President Donald Trump said on Oct. 25th at a weekend rally in Port Huron, Mich. 

He pointed out the “Super Bass” rapper’s posterior during his remarks, even asking her to stand up, further reducing our political discourse to a woman’s ample rump.

“By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before: Nicki Minaj. That’s hard to miss. Stand up. That’s hard to miss,” the president said, according to TMZ. He added: “I hope Nicki wasn’t insulted, but we love Nicki. She’s been with us for a long time.”

A tale of two rallies

The remarks were whiplash-inducing. Consider the contrast: Former President Barack Obama had his own Michigan rally a day before, in support of U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit. 

During that rally, along with discussing issues at stake in the election, Obama joked that Trump had turned the White House into a “Cheesecake Factory” if it were designed by a gold-loving, former Iraqi dictator. 

“What’s up with the gold?” Obama said. “I mean, he’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It’s just gold everywhere. He is clearly not focused on lowering prices for you.”

In this midterm duel of two very different political surrogates, people in the battleground state of Michigan have been given a stark choice:

They can get with a political legend imploring Black voters to show up for El-Sayed despite historic tensions between the Black and Arab community in Detroit.

Or a female hip-hop icon who is more known these days for espousing MAGA talking points than her rapping, singing or clever wordplay.

Michiganders, the choice is yours.

A new role for Minaj?

Or maybe the choice is the White House’s? Several staffers floated the idea of Minaj becoming the next White House press secretary.

No, for real. This is a thing that happened.

Wrote White House Communications Director Steven Chueng on social media about Minaj: “Ladies and gentlemen, I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary!”

Minaj, who is also a Trinidadian immigrant and a Black woman, is a contradiction who loudly advocates for a man who has terrorized the immigrant and Black communities. When ICE was rounding up citizens and non-citizens alike, based on racial profiling, Minaj was championing Trump’s $1 million “gold card” visa. This year, before the Supreme Court disenfranchised millions of Black voters, Minaj was backing voter ID laws on social media.

Said Minaj during her brief remarks at the rally, she “will continue to support (President Trump) forever and ever. If you run again, I will support you again.”

Of course, legally, Trump can’t run for a third term, but point taken.

Stranger things

It’s been a strange time in politics since Trump threw out tradition, precedent and decorum and replaced them with him doing a version of Al Pacino’s “she’s got a great ass” schtick from the Michael Mann classic film “Heat.”

And Minaj is not even his first time getting fixed on a butt. In fact, it’s not even the first time he’s done it this month. He previously complimented GOP Sen. John Husted’s rear at a rally.

Nobody asked for these ass appraisals, and, seemingly, nobody wants them. And yet here we are with a president whose public persona these days is more Andrew Dice Clay than erudite, dignified leader of the free world. 

So this is your reminder that despite the jokes or whatever Trump is doing, its important to stay focused. Early voting is happening right now across the country in the lead up to Election Day on Nov. 3rd. 

Make your plan today to vote.

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