U.S. President Donald Trump and musician Nicki Minaj stand together onstage at the U.S. Treasury Department's Trump Accounts Summit, in Washington, D.C., U.S. January 28, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
President Donald Trump used an event marking Black History Month to remark on Nicki Minaj's complexion.
"I love Nikki Minaj," the president told the audience. "She was here a couple of weeks ago. She's so beautiful. Her skin's so beautiful."
"I said, Nikki is so beautiful. Her nails, her nails are like that long," he continued. "I said, Nikki, are they real? She said she didn't want to get into that. But she was so beautiful and so great."
"And she gets it, you know. More importantly, frankly, she gets it."
