{"id":53370,"date":"2026-02-01T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=53370"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:22:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:22:59","slug":"trevor-noah-roasts-nicki-minajs-trump-support-at-grammys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=53370","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah roasts Nicki Minaj\u2019s Trump support at Grammys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Grammys host&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/trevor-noah\/\"><u>Trevor Noah\u2002<\/u><\/a>is mocking Nicki Minaj\u2019s support for President Trump, poking fun at the rap star\u2019s recent trip to the White House.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">After picking out some high-profile&nbsp;musical artists in the audience at the 68th annual Grammy Awards \u2014 including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/pharrell-williams\/\"><u>Pharrell Williams,<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;Jelly Roll and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/miley-cyrus\/\"><u>Miley Cyrus\u2002<\/u><\/a>\u2014 on Sunday in Los Angeles, Noah quipped to the crowd, \u201cNicki Minaj is not here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cShe is still at the White House with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\"><u>Donald Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>discussing very important issues,\u201d Noah said while delivering his opening monologue at the awards show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cActually Nicki, I have the biggest ass. I have it,\u201d Noah, mimicking Trump, said to laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cI know they say it\u2019s you, but it\u2019s me,\u201d Noah, as Trump, added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5710758-nicki-minaj-trump-accounts\/\"><u>During a trip<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;to Washington last week, Minaj heaped praise on Trump, saying she was likely the president\u2019s \u201cNo. 1 fan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe hate or what people have to say, it does not affect me at all,\u201d the \u201cSuper Bass\u201d rapper said of critics and some fans panning her vocal support for Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt actually&nbsp;motivates me to support him more, and it\u2019s going to motivate all of us to support him more,\u201d Minaj, who was born Onika Maraj, said while appearing at a Treasury Department-hosted summit to launch \u201cTrump Accounts\u201d for newborn babies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Trump lauded Minaj at the event, calling the 43-year-old performer \u201cgreat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Minaj also visited&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5714757-nicki-minaj-mike-johnson-melania-movie\/\"><u>the Capitol<\/u><\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5712660-nicki-minaj-donald-trump-gold-card\/\"><u>the White House<\/u><\/a>, and attended the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5714196-melania-trump-documentary-premiere\/\"><u>world premiere<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;of \u201cMelania\u201d at the Kennedy Center during her time in Washington.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">White House Communications Director&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/steven-cheung\/\"><u>Steven Cheung\u2002<\/u><\/a>responded to Noah\u2019s jokes in a post on the social platform X on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAnd Trevor Noah is still a giant loser who will be forever known for being unceremoniously kicked off The Daily Show for being a complete psychopath, only to be replaced by a rotating cast of even bigger snowflakes,\u201d Cheung said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5718001-grammys-noah-trump-minaj-mockery\/\">thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammys host&nbsp;Trevor Noah\u2002is mocking Nicki Minaj\u2019s support for President Trump, poking fun at the rap star\u2019s recent trip to the White House.&nbsp; After picking out some high-profile&nbsp;musical artists in the audience at the 68th annual Grammy Awards \u2014 including&nbsp;Pharrell Williams,&nbsp;Jelly Roll and&nbsp;Miley Cyrus\u2002\u2014 on Sunday in Los Angeles, Noah quipped to the crowd, \u201cNicki Minaj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[36143,36144,36142,1230],"class_list":["post-53370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-grammy-awards","tag-nicki-minaj","tag-trevor-noah","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53373,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53370\/revisions\/53373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}