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Homeland Security is getting involved in the stan wars, and it’s clearly Team Nicki. During Cardi B’s first concert on the Little Miss Drama Tour in Palm Desert, California, she took a stance against ICE during a transition while singing Selena’s “Como la Flor.” “If ICE come in here, we gon’ jump they asses,” she stated as she shook her head back and forth while the crowd cheered. “Bitch, I have some bear mace in the back. They ain’t taking my fans.” It wasn’t long before Homeland Security responded to the comment. The Trump administration has been keen on posting about pop stars who don’t like them. “As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior,” Homeland Security replied in a post that was really similar to something Minaj would’ve posted about Cardi B at the height of their online feud last October. Minaj has been a vocal supporter of President Trump, calling herself the president’s “No. 1 fan” when she met him last month. She has support throughout the White House; Vice-President J.D. Vance expressed mutual admiration for Minaj, saying he prefers her to Cardi B.
The “WAP” rapper was quick to point out the irony in opposing her past behavior. “If we talking about drugs let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them. Why yall don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?” Cardi replied.
Cardi B has previously denounced her behavior from before she became famous; an old clip resurfaced in 2019 in which Cardi talked about how she used to drug and rob men in order to “survive.” “Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive,” she apologized at the time. “I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world.”
