LOADING ERROR LOADINGPresident Donald Trump boasted about his support from Nicki Minaj’s “community” during a speech he delivered Wednesday. Trump didn’t elaborate on Minaj’s “community,” but he has a history of boasting about his support from Black communities. Trump made inroads with Black voters in 2024, but exit polls have shown that Black voters still overwhelmingly voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Tillery believes Trump’s remarks about Minaj’s “community” were an example of “othering” — meaning the president views whiteness as universal. “By emphasizing her ‘community,’ Trump implicitly marks her as outside the default political mainstream — the community rather than our community,” he said.

Source: Huffington Post January 30, 2026 13:38 UTC