The petitions started on Change.org asking to “deport” Nicki Minaj to her country of origin, Trinidad and Tobago, have exceeded 120 thousand signatures in total. The most popular, with over 83 thousand members, started on July 9, 2025 and among the main reasons also cited the alleged “harassment” towards the Carter spouses, given that in that period Minaj was repeatedly attacking Jay-Z on X.
In recent days, however, at least three more have popped up, created between 21 and 28 December 2025, after the rapper's controversial appearance at AmericaFest, the event of Turning Point USA, the conservative organization founded in 2012 by activist Charlie Kirk and which over the years has become a point of reference for the young public of the American right. Minaj took the stage during the convention, alongside Erika Kirk (widow of the political commentator killed on September 10), praising the Trump administration.
It was precisely from this episode that one of the most recent petitions started, launched on December 27 by Tristan Hamilton, a sixteen-year-old from Chicago, which currently has over 41 thousand signatures. The petition, in fact, uses as its main image a photo in which Minaj high-fives Kirk and claims that the rapper would have “betrayed” her LGBTQIA+ fans, reporting a phrase said by Minaj at AmericaFest: «Boys, be boys… There's nothing wrong with being a boy» (“Boys, act like boys, there's nothing wrong with being a boy”).
For some, Minaj's hosting is a sign of closeness to an organization long accused of anti-trans and queerphobic positions. “Sending her back to Trinidad would serve as a reminder that public figures must be accountable for their words and the impact they have on communities,” Hamilton writes, specifying that the point is not to “punish” a single star, but to demand from those who have a large following a bit of responsibility, coherence and attention to the weight of their words. Furthermore, Minaj's speech at the convention came as the Trump administration carries out a very harsh campaign on immigration and against various communities, including the Caribbean one.
It is unclear, however, whether there is indeed a legal basis to deport Minaj. In 2018, the rapper wrote that she arrived in the United States at the age of 5 “as an illegal immigrant” and, in the same period, she criticized the separation of migrant children from their parents during Trump's first term: “I can't imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having your parents taken away at the age of 5,” she commented on social media. Her citizenship status is also unclear: in 2024, during a live broadcast on TikTok, Minaj said: «I am not an American citizen. Isn't that absurd?”, adding that with the millions paid in taxes he should have received “an honorary citizenship… thousands and thousands of years ago.”
Even if the comments seem to be disabled on the most important petition among those calling for Minaj's deportation, under the one launched by Hamilton some users who define themselves as “former fans” wrote: «It is difficult to reconcile the rapper who once spoke about the terror of immigration policies, with this version of Nicki who approaches Erika Kirk, a woman who supports ideas that marginalize black and trans voices [sic]». The same comment then continues: «It's not just a “difference of opinion”: it's seeing someone you admire put his enormous following at the service of people who have not shown the same love towards our community».
From Rolling Stone US.
