Nicky Jam has now joined a cohort of reggaetoneros pledging their support for Donald Trump — even if the former president doesn’t seem to know who he is. On Friday night, the Puerto Rican musician joined Trump onstage in Las Vegas to endorse him, but the former president misgendered him in his introduction.
“Do you know Nicky? She’s hot. Where’s Nicky?” Trump said from the stage while looking offstage to find him. Jam then arrived at the podium as Trump corrected his mistake: “Oh, look, I’m glad he came up.”
The Puerto Rican singer joined Trump while wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat as he made a short speech about his endorsement.
“It’s an honor to meet you, Mr. President. People that come from where I come from, they don’t meet the president. So I’m lucky,” said Jam. “We need you. We need you back, right? We need you to be the president.”
On Saturday morning, as the clip of Trump’s confusion went viral, Jam shared a meme on Instagram playing into the fact that the former president thought he was a woman: “Nicky jam la potra la bichota,” he joked, using the slang female reggaeton singers Ivy Queen and Karol G use to describe themselves. (Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign also shared the clip on X, poking fun at the confusion.)
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