So far, Trump has had two outstanding Cabinet members--State and Treasury. It's hard to argue against Defense given the execution of the Iran bombings and the Maduro extraction, but I want to see more real cultural change.
In my old age, I’ve taken swing dance lessons and I go to weekly dances at the Polish social hall. The bands play 40s and 50s romantic stuff with great melodies, like “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “Dream a Little Dream.” You know, romantic, let’s get married and have babies stuff. The old ladies at the dances love it.
Are you worried about skyrocketing grocery prices? Paying higher daycare costs got you down? Lying awake at night thinking about next month’s rent? Keeping the thermostat lower than you’d like? Worried about losing your healthcare?
Not to worry — Trump has fixed all of that.
You can rest easy knowing that for every newborn, Trump will deposit $1,000 of taxpayer money into an account for you.
Well… not exactly for you.
And not exactly usable by you.
But it will be invested — largely by the same financial institutions and donors who helped write the bill.
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any better for working families, Trump will also build a big, beautiful 250-foot arch.
Grocery prices and inflation in general have been flat for months. My local supermarket has even brought back the $10/lb. weekly NY Strip Steak sale. You haven’t noticed that wild day care scams are the favorite money laundering racket of the Democratic Party? Deporting illegals has reduced the demand for apartments and is causing rents to flatten or reduce. Gas is selling for $2.60/gal. in my hometown. And, no, I’m not worried. Medicare pays for everything.
Please try to understand the topic and stay on it. What's up with Scott Bessent bopping blissfully as a backdrop to Minaj.
One's opinion of rap in general is diluting the value of the post. It's not a topic I would raise in a post. It's really old and conventional. I don't like rap either but I know no one should care. Come on.
As for Ronald J. Ward, your pose is absolutely off topic. Delete it and never do bullshit like that again. Last warning.
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The words coming out of Minaj are: "Bitches ain't shit and they ain't sayin' nothing/A hundred motherfuckers can't tell me nothing."
As explained by Grok: "The Instagram Reel at https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUTusQuDXcE/ (posted by a Nicki Minaj fanpage, likely @thenickiminajlegacy) features Nicki Minaj participating in a viral TikTok trend/mashup challenge using her song "Beez in the Trap" (from her 2012 album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, featuring 2 Chainz).In this specific reel (and similar ones circulating from the trend), Nicki Minaj is lip-syncing and/or rapping parts of her verse/chorus from "Beez in the Trap," alongside Scott Bessent (U.S. Treasury Secretary in 2026). It's a back-to-back style trend, often set to a mashup/remix of "Beez in the Trap" with "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes. The clip promotes or ties into Trump-era initiatives like "Trump Accounts" (child investment accounts), with Minaj and Bessent appearing together in event footage or posing/dancing.The words Minaj is rapping (or lip-syncing) here are her signature chorus and opening lines from the song..."
Grok confirms that this is not AI. Bessent and Minaj were really there doing that: "Yes, this is real—Nicki Minaj and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent actually teamed up for a viral TikTok-style video promoting "Trump Accounts," a new child investment initiative. The clip, which went live in late January 2026, shows them back-to-back lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" and 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" It was posted by official government accounts and tied to a Treasury Department event where Minaj appeared alongside Bessent, President Trump, and others like Kevin O'Leary. The footage includes genuine event clips from a Washington, D.C. summit, and Minaj has publicly embraced it, even calling herself Trump's "No. 1 fan" during the proceedings. No credible sources indicate it's AI-generated; the reports treat it as authentic promotional content."
President Trump is hugely popular with Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, all Americans. And his accomplishments over the past 12 months are even more popular than he is. Popular with The People.
Elitists like Chuck and Inga and Kakistan float in here every day to express their contempt for these Americans and to cry and share their pain, their suffering, their misery.
I know it’s sadistic, I know it’s a sin, but I love it.
Reminds me of when she was on Graham Norton maybe 10 years ago. Graham asked her what ‘in the trap’ means, and she basically explained it as meaning hard work. Then she said to Graham “you in the trap right now, playboy!” At which point John Bishop, farther down the couch, burst out laughing, “that has to be the first time anyone’s called YOU playboy!” CC, JSM
It takes a lot of guts to be in the entertainment industry and openly support Trump. We all know what people say to her, and the names they call her. I can imagine her agent going ballistic about it, to which I hope she says: "Make it work for us, or I'll find someone who will." The people at the Grammys embarrassed themselves swimming around in that cold jacuzzi of hypocrisy and make believe personalities. You could see the expensive emollients and coatings coalescing into a floating scum.
“The words coming out of Minaj are: "Bitches ain't shit and they ain't sayin' nothing/A hundred motherfuckers can't tell me nothing." As explained by Grok: (blah blah…)
Wow… I see a Nobel in literature in Minaj’s future!
I have to admit I wouldn’t have fully appreciated the deep profundity of “the words coming out of Minaj” without the very edifying exegesis by Grok. Still not sure what it has to do with a child investment initiative, though.
Bessent is quite a character. You wouldn’t think a Treasury Secretary would let their inner rapper fly. I guess if Trump can do YMCA, Bessent can channel Minaj. Perhaps a trend cranking up amongst the cabinet folk?
Plenty of jokes to be made about the singer of WAP and the first gay and out Secretary of the Treasury, but I will not go there. The "W" is for "wet" and not, as I had thought, for "wide."
Trump is the most gay adjacent President in history, not in the Biden DEI performative gayness with trans tits on the lawn way, but rather with the actual capable people who just happen to be gay and there's nothing wrong with that way.
I tend to think Bessent was dancing at least in part to the correction in precious metal prices and the prospects of Warsh’s nomination to be Fed Chair.
This is not something new, the mashup of 4 Non Blonds' "What's Up? and Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" has been a thing on social media for some time. Two people back to back, lip syching.
Nothing is more embarrassing than getting your ass kicked by a gay guy. So Trump sends Bessent and Grenell out to kick people's asses. Master of psychological operations. CC, JSM
I barely knew who this person was before she decided to go to bat for Trump. Apparently she is an entertainer of considerable renown among young people. A highly unexpected source of support for the Right, but quite welcome.
"Nancy said... Thanks Curious George. ??? Just a string of obscenities?"
They mean something. I'm 68, and white. So I'm not going to be much help. Both my sons listen to this music, so I hear it often enough. I enjoy some of it.
NM is the young lady who said a few years ago that she couldn't be a Democrat anymore because she got sick of stuffing marbles up her backside. Good thing she left when she did because marbles have been replaced with golf balls in 2025.
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There was a lot cliquish mean girl activity aimed at Nicki Minaj at the Grammy's.
So far, Trump has had two outstanding Cabinet members--State and Treasury. It's hard to argue against Defense given the execution of the Iran bombings and the Maduro extraction, but I want to see more real cultural change.
The others ? More mixed.
30 years out, and I still can’t stand rap. Or hip-hop. Or whatever kind of melody absent stuff this is.
3... 2... 1...
She's a pickme!
The clapping seals will be out to shame the apostate soon.
Democrats and the religion of Islam have a lot in common.
Takes gyts to be pro-Trump in her business.
Shouting Thomas said...
30 years out, and I still can’t stand rap. Or hip-hop. Or whatever kind of melody absent stuff this is.
It replaces cadence with melody.
You would probably dislike Dub Step even more than rap.
I like Dub Step.
“ I like Dub Step.”
In my old age, I’ve taken swing dance lessons and I go to weekly dances at the Polish social hall. The bands play 40s and 50s romantic stuff with great melodies, like “I’ll Be Seeing You” and “Dream a Little Dream.” You know, romantic, let’s get married and have babies stuff. The old ladies at the dances love it.
Because......they are making fun of Ghetto Barbie....Jasmine!!
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1990597812250096087?
Are you worried about skyrocketing grocery prices?
Paying higher daycare costs got you down?
Lying awake at night thinking about next month’s rent?
Keeping the thermostat lower than you’d like?
Worried about losing your healthcare?
Not to worry — Trump has fixed all of that.
You can rest easy knowing that for every newborn, Trump will deposit $1,000 of taxpayer money into an account for you.
Well… not exactly for you.
And not exactly usable by you.
But it will be invested — largely by the same financial institutions and donors who helped write the bill.
And just when you thought things couldn’t get any better for working families, Trump will also build a big, beautiful 250-foot arch.
So sleep well tonight.
Thank you, Mr. President.
What’s ironic is that if RJW was sincere he’d be very accurate
What is she saying? I couldn't catch it all.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Grocery prices and inflation in general have been flat for months. My local supermarket has even brought back the $10/lb. weekly NY Strip Steak sale. You haven’t noticed that wild day care scams are the favorite money laundering racket of the Democratic Party? Deporting illegals has reduced the demand for apartments and is causing rents to flatten or reduce. Gas is selling for $2.60/gal. in my hometown. And, no, I’m not worried. Medicare pays for everything.
Cute girl.
Please try to understand the topic and stay on it. What's up with Scott Bessent bopping blissfully as a backdrop to Minaj.
One's opinion of rap in general is diluting the value of the post. It's not a topic I would raise in a post. It's really old and conventional. I don't like rap either but I know no one should care. Come on.
As for Ronald J. Ward, your pose is absolutely off topic. Delete it and never do bullshit like that again. Last warning.
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Thomas, that’s a classic “my bubble = reality” argument, stitched together with partisan talking points.
I could go into detail but your Trump driven narrative simply isn’t flying with American consumers.
The words coming out of Minaj are: "Bitches ain't shit and they ain't sayin' nothing/A hundred motherfuckers can't tell me nothing."
As explained by Grok: "The Instagram Reel at https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUTusQuDXcE/ (posted by a Nicki Minaj fanpage, likely @thenickiminajlegacy) features Nicki Minaj participating in a viral TikTok trend/mashup challenge using her song "Beez in the Trap" (from her 2012 album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, featuring 2 Chainz).In this specific reel (and similar ones circulating from the trend), Nicki Minaj is lip-syncing and/or rapping parts of her verse/chorus from "Beez in the Trap," alongside Scott Bessent (U.S. Treasury Secretary in 2026). It's a back-to-back style trend, often set to a mashup/remix of "Beez in the Trap" with "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes. The clip promotes or ties into Trump-era initiatives like "Trump Accounts" (child investment accounts), with Minaj and Bessent appearing together in event footage or posing/dancing.The words Minaj is rapping (or lip-syncing) here are her signature chorus and opening lines from the song..."
Grok confirms that this is not AI. Bessent and Minaj were really there doing that: "Yes, this is real—Nicki Minaj and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent actually teamed up for a viral TikTok-style video promoting "Trump Accounts," a new child investment initiative. The clip, which went live in late January 2026, shows them back-to-back lip-syncing to a mashup of Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" and 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up?" It was posted by official government accounts and tied to a Treasury Department event where Minaj appeared alongside Bessent, President Trump, and others like Kevin O'Leary. The footage includes genuine event clips from a Washington, D.C. summit, and Minaj has publicly embraced it, even calling herself Trump's "No. 1 fan" during the proceedings. No credible sources indicate it's AI-generated; the reports treat it as authentic promotional content."
Ann, I generally try not to thread jack and I didn’t watch the clip but wasn’t the Bessent and Minaj ordeal about promoting the “Trump Account”?
I haven’t seen a delete option for a few weeks.
Rapping away the ire.
Thanks. It's good to start the day with a grin.
translation: "and the horse you rode in on" - N. Minaj, while Scotty B. bops in the back. Heh.
President Trump is hugely popular with Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, all Americans. And his accomplishments over the past 12 months are even more popular than he is. Popular with The People.
Elitists like Chuck and Inga and Kakistan float in here every day to express their contempt for these Americans and to cry and share their pain, their suffering, their misery.
I know it’s sadistic, I know it’s a sin, but I love it.
Reminds me of when she was on Graham Norton maybe 10 years ago. Graham asked her what ‘in the trap’ means, and she basically explained it as meaning hard work. Then she said to Graham “you in the trap right now, playboy!” At which point John Bishop, farther down the couch, burst out laughing, “that has to be the first time anyone’s called YOU playboy!” CC, JSM
wendybar said...
"Because......they are making fun of Ghetto Barbie....Jasmine!!
"https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1990597812250096087?"
EVERYBODY's doing it!
Meade: “ I know it’s a sin, but I love it.”
Another gay anthem Bessent could do a video to:
https://youtu.be/dRHetRTOD1Q?si=2G9qY40phCmA5yl0
CC, JSM
It takes a lot of guts to be in the entertainment industry and openly support Trump. We all know what people say to her, and the names they call her. I can imagine her agent going ballistic about it, to which I hope she says: "Make it work for us, or I'll find someone who will."
The people at the Grammys embarrassed themselves swimming around in that cold jacuzzi of hypocrisy and make believe personalities. You could see the expensive emollients and coatings coalescing into a floating scum.
Trump 47 is a very different vibe than Trump 45.
Still plenty of Pauline Kaels but far more popular acceptance and energy, though the BlueAnon/TDS crowd is also farther round the bend.
Minaj et moi.
LOL@john mosby.
Nicki and Scott having a gay old time. Fun.
De-fund the Police.
A radical left communist action.
Purge the ranks and re-fill with democrat party mob loyalists.
That was the plan all along.
The Police should be non-political.
wrong thead- oh well.
I'm not a fan of Minaj or her art, but it takes courage for someone in her field to think independently. I applaud her for that.
As the saying goes, "It takes all kinds."
Trump knows that.
“The words coming out of Minaj are: "Bitches ain't shit and they ain't sayin' nothing/A hundred motherfuckers can't tell me nothing."
As explained by Grok: (blah blah…)
Wow… I see a Nobel in literature in Minaj’s future!
I have to admit I wouldn’t have fully appreciated the deep profundity of “the words coming out of Minaj” without the very edifying exegesis by Grok. Still not sure what it has to do with a child investment initiative, though.
Bessent is quite a character. You wouldn’t think a Treasury Secretary would let their inner rapper fly. I guess if Trump can do YMCA, Bessent can channel Minaj. Perhaps a trend cranking up amongst the cabinet folk?
Plenty of jokes to be made about the singer of WAP and the first gay and out Secretary of the Treasury, but I will not go there. The "W" is for "wet" and not, as I had thought, for "wide."
@Lazarus, sure you’re not mixing up Nicki with Cardi?
Scott is badass...and the left can't handle it
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Rep. Maxine Waters tells Sec. Scott Bessent "SHUT UP" and he FIRES BACK as chaos erupts
WATERS: "Can you SHUT UP?!"
BESSENT: "Can you maintain some level of dignity?" 🔥🔥
CHAIR: "Your time has expired."
WATERS: "He took up my time!!"
LMFAO 😭
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2019075827921482120?s=20
Feisty!
Face it, Republicans have the biggest tent.
Hes john wick with a pen
Trump is the most gay adjacent President in history, not in the Biden DEI performative gayness with trans tits on the lawn way, but rather with the actual capable people who just happen to be gay and there's nothing wrong with that way.
I tend to think Bessent was dancing at least in part to the correction in precious metal prices and the prospects of Warsh’s nomination to be Fed Chair.
Trump is gay. A merry fellow.
@Lazarus, sure you’re not mixing up Nicki with Cardi?
Embarrassingly, Laura Ingraham made the exact same mistake about the two women and WAP on her show.
Yeah cardi is the dumb one
"Yeah cardi is the dumb one"
She's the astronot.
There are so many negatives in that lyric I have no idea what it means.
Astronut?
This is not something new, the mashup of 4 Non Blonds' "What's Up? and Minaj's "Beez in the Trap" has been a thing on social media for some time. Two people back to back, lip syching.
Not as old as "What's Up" and He-Man mash up.
He Man
"Nancy said...
There are so many negatives in that lyric I have no idea what it means."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjKILn6jhI&t
Thanks, Althouse.
Nothing is more embarrassing than getting your ass kicked by a gay guy. So Trump sends Bessent and Grenell out to kick people's asses. Master of psychological operations. CC, JSM
Thanks Curious George. ??? Just a string of obscenities?
I thought Katie Perry was the astronaut.
I welcome Ms. Minaj to the team.
I am feeling just a little bit old.
I barely knew who this person was before she decided to go to bat for Trump. Apparently she is an entertainer of considerable renown among young people. A highly unexpected source of support for the Right, but quite welcome.
"Nancy said...
Thanks Curious George. ??? Just a string of obscenities?"
They mean something. I'm 68, and white. So I'm not going to be much help. Both my sons listen to this music, so I hear it often enough. I enjoy some of it.
"john mosby said...
Nothing is more embarrassing than getting your ass kicked by a gay guy."
Oh there is. And oddly it still involves your ass and a gay guy. Not there is anything wrong with it.
NM is the young lady who said a few years ago that she couldn't be a Democrat anymore because she got sick of stuffing marbles up her backside. Good thing she left when she did because marbles have been replaced with golf balls in 2025.
Ok, explain to me.
Bitches aint shit means they are not worthless like shit is, or that they are not even worth as much as shit?
https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/2019081952855310704
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