Joy Reid launched her most vicious assault but on Nicki Minaj, calling the rapper a Republican “house pet” throughout an look on The Don Lemon Show.

The former MSNBC host didn’t mince phrases when discussing Minaj’s current embrace of Donald Trump and the MAGA motion.

“There’s a reason that the other side is giddy about having Nicki Minaj, a rapper they despise, a rapper they don’t respect,” Joy Reid said during the segment.

Reid then delivered her most inflammatory remark, evaluating Nicki Minaj to an animal.

“The reason they want her on a leash as their house pet cuddled at Donald Trump’s feet, the reason she is the new house pet is because they need, N-E-E-E-D Black people to give them ‘cultural cool,’” she continued.

The assault comes simply days after Trump posted and deleted a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes. Trump refused to apologize for the February 6 publish, claiming a staffer made the error.

The feud between Joy Reid and Nicki Minaj dates again to September 2021. Reid criticized Minaj on The ReidOut after the rapper shared vaccine hesitancy on social media.

Nicki Minaj fired again then, calling Reid “thirsty to down another black woman” and accusing her of being an “uncle tomiana doing the work” for white males.

Now Reid has escalated the battle with much more private assaults.

“She’ll never be Rihanna. She’ll never have a brand like Rihanna. She’ll never be Beyoncé,” Reid mentioned on Lemon’s present.

Reid referred to as the 42-year-old rapper a “Black female rapper who clearly don’t care that much about Black people or immigrants, even though she was an undocumented immigrant.”

Nicki Minaj’s political transformation has been dramatic. In 2020, she mentioned she wouldn’t “jump on the Trump bandwagon” after criticizing his immigration insurance policies.

But by 2025, Nicki Minaj turned considered one of Trump’s most vocal celeb supporters. She referred to as herself Trump’s “number one fan” at a Treasury Department summit in January.

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