MAGA rapper Nicki Minaj has accused cisgender female supermodel Chrissy Teigen of being transgender in retaliation for Teigen laughing at and giving a thumbs-up to comedian Trevor Noah’s jokes about Minaj’s love of President Donald Trump during Noah’s gig hosting the recent Grammy Awards. In response to Minaj’s attack on Teigen, numerous social media commenters reminded Minaj that her own husband is a registered sex offender.

Minaj, a conspiracy theorist who believes that pop artists are ritually sacrificing children as blood offerings to Satan, accused Noah of being a closet homosexual in retaliation for his joking about her absence at the annual music awards. During the awards ceremony, Noah said, “[Minaj] is still at the White House with Donald Trump discussing very important issues,” and then proceeded to do an imitation of Trump proclaiming that his butt is much larger than Minaj’s — Minaj famously sang about her own large buttocks in her 2014 song, “Anaconda.”

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Video of the moment showed Teigen in the background giving Noah a thumbs-up after he noted Minaj’s absence. Teigen then laughed at Noah’s imitation of Trump. Numerous other celebrities can be seen also laughing and smiling during Noah’s comments, including Teigen’s husband, musician John Legend, and comedic actor Jeff Goldblum. However, Minaj has not publicly attacked them for it.

In a post on X published last Sunday night, Minaj wrote, “Everyone knows Chrissy Tiegan has/had a dik. Allegedly,” and posted her comment alongside the image of the fictional serial murdering children’s doll Chucky drinking a dirty martini.

In response, commenters on X reminded Minaj that her husband, Kenneth Petty, is a registered sex offender, having served four years in prison for attempted rape. He was arrested in 2020 because he failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to California with Minaj and was sentenced to a year of house arrest.

Everyone knows Chrissy Tiegan has/had a dik. Allegedly pic.twitter.com/d13zrB7ZLN

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 2, 2026

Minaj had previously lashed out at Noah on X, writing, “Trevor refuses to come out the closet when everyone in the industry knows his boyfriend. Allegedly.” Noah does not identify as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

“MAGA Minaj” has become an increasingly outspoken supporter of Trump, partly due to her opposition to transgender people’s rights. At a Turning Point USA event in December, she said that Trump was “handsome” and then told trans girls to “be boys”: “It’s nothing wrong with being a boy. How about that? How powerful is that? How profound is that? Boys will be boys, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Earlier this month, she called gay journalist Don Lemon “Don ‘c**k suckin’ Lemon” and “disgusting” after he broadcast a protest at a church in Minnesota. Conservatives have claimed that the protest, which was about opposition to ICE, was an attack on “Christian worshippers.”

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 29-year-old Portland, Oregon resident Chandler Patey as “the leader of Antifa,” according to internal DHS documents leaked to journalist Kenneth Klippenstein. Klippenstein notes that Patey and other “Antifa protestors” identified in the federal documents demonstrate the shoddy reasoning the federal government will use to just to label any protestor as a domestic terrorist.

The DHS decided that Patey leads Antifa, which Trump has designated as a “domestic terrorist organization,” because Patey has been “seen in many videos advocating the principles of [anti-fascism]” and because he allows protestors to use his bathroom and medical supplies to rinse off tear gas inflicted by federal agents at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainment facility near his downtown Portland apartment.

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While Patey also provides medical equipment and gas mask filters that protestors might need after federal agents attack them for expressing their First Amendment rights, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and other right-wing media commentators have used these as a basis to claim that Patey is running an ominous-sounding “Antifa safehouse.”

In reality, Antifa is a decentralized political ideology with autonomous, local groups but no formal leaders. Antifa activists primarily oppose institutional fascism and racism in government.

Anonymous senior DHS officials told Klippenstein that they feel pressured to find legal ways to implement the “outrageous directives” of President Trump’s anti-Antifa crusade, despite there being little evidence of actual crimes or the “well-financed” group backing that Trump officials regularly accuse Antifa of benefiting from.

Accordingly, the DHS also has internal documents proclaiming to be actively investigating other Antifa protestors, including Dustin Ragsdale. The DHS has a photo of him carrying a Pride flag and wearing sweatpants with a Batman logo. Ragsdale’s “terrorist activities” include using a megaphone and being “aggressive to counter protesters.” Also listed is a Washington woman who goes by Mossy Matriarch; her offense: collecting and distributing supplies to protestors.

The DHS’ files on these and other “terrorists” credit right-wing commentators with helping provide information as “open source intelligence” (OSINT). That is, if anti-LGBTQ+ MAGA influencers decide that anyone is an Antifa supporter, that information may go in a federal investigatory file as “intelligence.”

Legal observers worry that Trump has used his Antifa terrorist designation as a pretense to direct federal agencies to harass left-wing activists, donor networks, and Democratic groups, as his administration officials have already claimed that Democratic politicians are “covering up” Antifa crimes. His administration has already tried to violate First Amendment rights by attacking media outlets that criticize him as well as kidnapping and deporting pro-Palestinian activists and journalists.

The Trump administration proclaimed that both queer mother of three Renee Good and Department of Veterans Affairs’ ICU nurse Alex Pretti were domestic terrorists immediately after federal immigration agents repeatedly shot and killed both. Administration officials have since backed off from those characterizations, but only after widespread outrage and nationwide protest from people across the political spectrum.

Federal agents at the Portland, Oregon ICE facility spent the weekend teargassing protestors, senior citizens, and their children.

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Luke and Brent Ganger, the brothers of Renee Good, the Minneapolis queer mother of three who was shot and killed by a federal immigration officer last month, testified at a public congressional forum on Tuesday about the deadly use of force used against U.S. citizens and others by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents.

In a tear-filled testimony, Luke Ganger told lawmakers that he hoped his sister’s slaying would compel federal immigration authorities to change their aggressive street tactics. But, he added, “It has not,” The Hill reported.

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“The completely surreal scenes on the streets of Minneapolis are beyond explanation,” he said. “This is beyond a bad day or a rough week. ICE agents are changing the community and the lives of many others forever. I still don’t know how to explain to my 4-year-old what these agents are doing.”

“These encounters with federal agents are changing the community, and changing many lives, including ours, forever,” he said, according to The New York Times.

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Luke Ganger said that he and his siblings grew up in an “American blend” of a family whose members had different political views and opinions on “what it means to be a citizen.” His family could serve as an example to others of how to “not let political ideals divide us,” he said.

Reading from the eulogy that he gave at Good’s funeral, Brent Ganger called his slain sister “unapologetically hopeful,” adding, “She had a way of making you feel understood even if you didn’t have the words yet. Renee is not gone from us. She is in the light that finds us on bad days.”

The brothers’ testimony was just part of a larger forum organized by out gay House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations ranking member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT.) 

During the forum, Chicago, Illinois resident Marimar Martinez shared her experience of being shot five times by a Border Patrol agent. Federal officials dropped their assault case against her despite initially accusing her of being a domestic terrorist and ramming her vehicle into that of a Customs and Border Protection agent who then shot her several times. Federal officials kept the agent’s vehicle from undergoing a forensic examination, and text revealed the agent bragging about shooting Martinez.

“[Federal agents] are targeting individuals who fit a certain profile, who simply have a certain accent, a non-white skin color, just like me,” she said at the congressional forum. “How many more lives must be lost before meaningful action is taken?”

San Bernardino, California resident Martin Daniel Rascon described federal officers shooting his vehicle and later raiding his home, arresting him and his brother-in-law. “[The agents had] no idea who they were looking for,” Rascon said. Nevertheless, federal agents detained his brother-in-law for weeks before releasing him.

Garcia said at the hearing, “We’re seeing the results of powerful people with no respect for the constitution, no respect for the law, no respect for humility.”

Because Democrats are in the congressional minority, the forum was not an official congressional hearing. As such, its testimony wasn’t preserved in the congressional record, and the forum’s organizers had no power to subpoena federal officials to testify.

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