trump told a rally he'd checked out a senator's ass, then nicki minaj's. she took the mic and talked about "sex changes." barbie, no.

Nicki Minaj at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest in Phoenix, December 2025. Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

via Newsweek, Global News and PinkNews, with video from FOX 2 Detroit and WHAS11

The segue went like this. Trump, at McMorran Place arena in Port Huron, Michigan on Sunday, was revisiting the coverage of his comments about Ohio Sen. Jon Husted's body. "I looked at his ass," he said, per the video. "I've never done that with a man before." Then: "Off the record, women, yes. Men, no."

And then, by way of proving the point: "By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj." He pointed. "That's hard to miss." He told her to stand up. She did. "I hope Nicki wasn't insulted," he added afterward, according to Newsweek and Global News. "We love Nicki."

If you are keeping a file, this is not the first time this month he has told a crowd about Husted's behind. He did it in Youngstown, and Anderson Cooper made a supercut. The man has a type and the type is Ohio.

what nicki said with the mic

Minaj, who traveled to the rally with Trump on Air Force One, according to both outlets, then got the stage. Her speech, in FOX 2 Detroit's upload, runs about two minutes. Most of it is crowd work for Senate candidate Mike Rogers and governor candidate John James. One part is policy:

"We don't want our children to be bombarded with sex changes, right? We don't want that for our children. We want people to leave the children alone. Leave them out of it, right?"

She closed with a pledge: "If you run again, I will support you again." The 22nd Amendment bars anyone from being elected president more than twice, which PinkNews pointed out before we could.

barbie, read the room

This is not a new position for her, as PinkNews notes: she has spoken against gender-affirming surgery for minors before. Nor is the MAGA stage new. At Turning Point's AmericaFest last December she called JD Vance "the assassin," then covered her mouth, as Global News recounted. What is new is the setting: a rally where the president's material was about other people's bodies, and her contribution was about children's.

After the rally, White House communications director Steven Cheung posted a video of the two of them on Air Force One with the line "I think we may have found the new White House Press Secretary," per Global News. We would watch that briefing. We would not enjoy it.

Iowa had its own version of the same two words the day before, from a Democrat, which we wrote up separately.