{"id":155897,"date":"2026-01-04T09:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=155897"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T17:47:39","slug":"nicki-minaj-faces-backlash-as-deportation-petitions-pass-120000-signatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/nicki-minaj-faces-backlash-as-deportation-petitions-pass-120000-signatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj faces backlash as deportation petitions pass 120,000 signatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicki Minaj<\/strong> is keeping herself at the center of controversy after multiple online petitions calling for her deportation surpassed 120,000 signatures combined. The backlash followed her surprise appearance on December 21, 2025, at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix. During the event, she spoke alongside <strong>Erika Kirk<\/strong> (Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow) and openly praised Donald Trump. In the conversation, the rapper also doubled down on her criticism of California Governor Gavin Newsom, making it clear she was not backing down from her new political stance and made transphobic remarks by stating \u201cif you&#8217;re born a boy, be a boy\u201d sparking applause from the conservative crowd.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-155898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nicki-Minaj-at-Turning-Point-USA-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The petitions, hosted on<strong> Change.org<\/strong>, were created between December 21 and 28, 2025, right after her appearance at AmericaFest. One of the most popular petitions, now sitting at over 83,000 signatures, was actually launched in summer 2025, before her Turning Point appearance. Despite the noise online, Nicki Minaj brushed off the criticism after attending the event, calling herself part of \u201cthe cool kids\u201d and revealing she didn\u2019t think about the controversies surrounding her. Shortly after, she deactivated her Instagram account as the backlash intensified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geniustechw\/status\/2004951658799722729?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nicki Minaj on stage: &#39;If you are born a boy, be a boy\u2014there&#39;s nothing wrong with being a boy. How about that?&#39;<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with her take, or is she out of line? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fNCXC9HGNU\">pic.twitter.com\/fNCXC9HGNU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Genius Tech (@Geniustechw) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Geniustechw\/status\/2004951658799722729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fans have also taken their disappointment offline. According to reports from Newsweek, clubgoers have been booing her music, stopping mid dance when her songs play, and even remixing tracks to remove her verses. The situation escalated earlier in December when the \u201cSuper Bass\u201d rapper publicly clashed with <strong>Newsom<\/strong> on social media over LGBT advocacy and criticised his policy about protection for transgender kids.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cImagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up &amp; think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids. Not Gav. The Gav Nots. GavOUT. Send in the next guy, I\u2019m bored.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicki Minaj is keeping herself at the center of controversy after multiple online petitions calling for her deportation surpassed 120,000 signatures combined. The backlash followed her surprise appearance on December 21, 2025, at a Turning Point USA event in Phoenix. During the event, she spoke alongside Erika Kirk (Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow) and openly praised Donald [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":155901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2386,2264,7],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-155897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-entertainment","9":"category-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155897"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=155897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}