D.L. Hughley has some alternative phrases for Nicki Minaj after her current tweets about transgender kids.
In a submit shared to his Threads account on Sunday (Dec. 14), the 62-year-old actor and comic focused the Pink Friday 2 rapper after her current tweets focusing on California governor Gavin Newsom and his help for trans children.
“Nicki Minaj shouldnt post anything about kids cuz her husband can’t be within 1000 ft of one!” he wrote. “It ain’t Gavin [Newsom] it’s Chris [Hansen] she should be worried about,” he wrote in reference to the host of the notorious To Catch a Predator sequence on Dateline NBC.
In a separate video shared to his TikTook and Instagram, Hughley doubled down on his feedback by additionally pointing to Minaj’s current embrace of President Donald Trump.
“She supports a dude that is on the Epstein list 1,000 times,” he mentioned, in reference to President Trump and his alleged appearances on the unreleased paperwork pertaining to convicted baby intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“She’s actually married to a registered sex offender, a pedophile,” he added. “She shouldn’t be able to watch Jason Kidd or listen to Kid ‘n Play, New Kids on the Block. Hell, she gotta walk around the aisle with Cabbage Patch Kids on it, and she damn sure should stay away from Sour Patch Kids.”
Minaj’s husband, Kenneth “Zoo” Petty, is a registered intercourse offender after he was convicted of first-degree rape in 1995 in New York. Petty served 4 years in jail following the conviction. In 2022, he was sentenced to 1 yr of in-home confinement and three years of probation for failing to register as a intercourse offender in California.
While it’s unclear what Minaj’s points with Governor Newsom stem from, some customers consider that the “Do We Have A Problem?” rapper hinted at their points final month when she blamed a variety of swatting incidents at her California residence to “political corruption” that went “consistently ignored by public figures who were supposed to be helping.”
Those points appear to have boiled over final week after Newsome defined his place about transgender kids to The New York Times.
“I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson,” he instructed The Times‘ Ezra Klein on Wednesday (Dec. 10). “There’s no governor who has signed more pro-trans legislation than I have. No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community.”
Minaj caught wind of his feedback days later and responded to her X account writing, “Imagine being the guy running on wanting to see trans kids. Haha. Not even a trans ADULT would run on that. Normal adults wake up & think they want to see HEALTHY, SAFE, HAPPY kids.
“Not Gav, The Gav Nots, GavOUT. Send in the next guy, I’m bored,” she concluded.
While Newsom didn’t supply a direct response to Minaj’s posts, he caught extra warmth from the rapper after he posted a video to social media highlighting pictures of Trump and Epstein after they had been launched by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
The soundtrack to the clip was Megan Thee Stallion’s 2024 single “Hiss,” that includes the verse some consider takes a shot at Minaj: “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan/ These hoes mad at Megan’s Law/ I don’t really know what the problem is/ But I guarantee, y’all don’t want me to start/ Bitch, you a pussy, never finna check me every chance you get/ Bet yo weak ass won’t address me.“
“Let’s wait…I think Gavvy’s still transitioning,” Minaj additionally tweeted.