All Foxed up

THE EDITOR, Madam:

Many commentators were gobsmacked when US President Donald Trump recently invited Nicki Minaj to join him onstage at an event in Washington. The 43-year-old rapper was born in Trinidad, also the birthplace of calypso and steel-band music. She migrated to New York as a young child but never obtained US citizenship.

It was a mutual admiration society with Ms Minaj referring to him as “my favourite president” while he declared her the “queen of rap”. She later displayed her new Trump Gold Card, which allows wealthy immigrants to purchase legal residency status. Next evening, Nicki Minaj was one of the guests of honour at the première of the Melania documentary, moving swiftly into the Trump inner circle. As a self-proclaimed peacemaker supposedly ending several foreign wars in 2025, it should be easy for President Trump to settle the eight-year-long public feud between Ms Minaj and fellow rapper Cardi B.

President Trump is usually introduced at political campaign events by Lee Greenwood’s song, God Bless The USA, while he frequently dances to The Village People’s YMCA. Imagine if a musical relationship flourishes between Nicki Minaj and him, itis possible that she will replace the ageing Lee Greenwood at political campaign events. However, the evangelical component of the MAGA base would then be obliged to sing along with Nicki’s decidedly raunchy lyrics, which are definitely more Kardashian than Shakespearean.

Cracks are showing in the MAGA hierarchy these days, with sycophantic fanatical Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene having quit politics and adopted a reasonably sane persona that had never been apparent before. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Border Patrol Leader Greg Bovino may soon be scapegoated for overly aggressive enforcement of immigration policies as tensions rise nationwide in a crucial mid-term election year.

Several of the president’s Cabinet and advisers are not seasoned politicians but were hand-picked from Fox News, where they were either television presenters, commentators, or frequent guests. Once upon a time, the term “neutral observers“ was used in political discussion, but that is a thing of the distant past, with so many strange policies emanating from a White House that is all Foxed Up.

BERNIE SMITH

Parksville, BC

Canada