Rapper and Donald Trump fanatic Nicki Minaj is speaking out on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, claiming that queer people are beginning to “see through” the US Democratic Party.

The “Super Bass” performer, 43, took to X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday (1 February) to urge LGBTQ+ people to “wake up” and stop supporting the liberal political party. 

Minaj began her social media tirade by alleging that the Democratic Party is “flying in immigrants to vote” for it because it can “no longer get the African American vote by default”.

In a follow-up post, she referred to any Christian who votes for the Democratic Party in future as a “fool”.

“They’re showing people that it’s ok to disrupt a church during worship. This is how they truly feel about you. The veil is lifted. No morals. No integrity,” she wrote, seemingly referring to a recent anti-ICE protest which disrupted a church service in Minnesota.

Any Christian who votes democrat again is a fool. They’re showing people that it’s ok to disrupt a church during worship. This is how they truly feel about you. The veil is lifted. No morals. No integrity. It’s not enough for them to have an opinion, they’ve escalated to physical…

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 2, 2026

On Friday, gay journalist Don Lemon was arrested for alleged civil rights crimes and charged with conspiracy against religious freedom at a place of worship for covering the protest. Minaj had previously called for Lemon’s arrest, calling him a homophobic slur in the process.

“It’s not enough for them to have an opinion, they’ve escalated to physical intrusion of places of worship,” Minaj continued. “The demons inside of them are so bothered. All the time.”

In another post, Minaj turned her attention to the LGBTQ+ community, arguing that queer people have “started seeing through” the Democratic Party.

“The LGBT has also started seeing through the veil & it has them p***ed off,” she wrote.

“Why are they getting the gay vote by default?!?!!! They’ve moved on from the gay vote to flying in ppl [sic] to vote for them. No loyalty to ANYONE.”

The LGBT has also started seeing through the veil & it has them pissed off. Why are they getting the gay vote by default?!?!!! They’ve moved on from the gay vote to flying in ppl to vote for them. No loyalty to ANYONE. The gay community should be able to choose every 4 years like…

— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) February 2, 2026

She added that the “demoncrats” should “not just get” the vote of queer people, urging her LGBTQ+ fans to “wake up”.

Minaj’s comments have been met with fierce criticism online, with New York drag performer Adriana Trenta responding: “Keep our community out of your mouth.”

“Never speak about the gays again. You betrayed them and continue to betray them,” a second person replied.

A third added: “The current Trump administration is anti LGBTQ+ community so why would American voters, US citizens who are LGBTQ+, vote for Republicans?”

In recent months, Nicki Minaj has become increasingly aligned with right-wing rhetoric. Last week, she met Trump at the White House and declared herself as his “number one fan”. In December, during a conversation with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk, she dubbed Trump’s supporters as the “cool kids”.

During last night’s Grammy awards, host Trevor Noah joked that Minaj wasn’t in attendance as she was still at the White House with Trump. In response, Minaj poked fun at his sexuality online, claiming that he “refuses to come out the closet”.

As Noah brought up Minaj’s absence from the Grammys, model Chrissy Teigen was seen behind him, putting her thumb to the camera. On X, Minaj responded by claiming that Teigen “has/had a dik [sic]”.

In addition to her remarks about Lemon, Noah and Teigen, Minaj has been slammed for mocking Gavin Newsom, California’s governor, over his support for trans youth.

Last year, she also re-posted a video published by the White House set to her song “Va Va Vroom”, in which Trump’s administration celebrated its attempts to ban transgender women from women’s sports competitions.

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Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some modelling. Their warnings mostly center around the way that user interaction is pulled away from OSS projects, while also making starting a new OSS project significantly harder.

“Vibe coding” here is defined as software development that is assisted by an LLM-backed chatbot, where the developer asks the chatbot to effectively write the code for them. Arguably this turns the developer into more of a customer/client of the chatbot, with no requirement for the former to understand what the latter’s code does, just that what is generated does the thing that the chatbot was asked to create.

This also removes the typical more organic selection process of libraries and tooling, replacing it with whatever was most prevalent in the LLM’s training data. Even for popular projects visits to their website decrease as downloads and documentation are replaced by LLM chatbot interactions, reducing the possibility of promoting commercial plans, sponsorships, and community forums. Much of this is also reflected in the plummet in usage of community forums like Stack Overflow.

If we consider this effect of ‘AI-assisted’ software development to be effectively the delegating of the actual engineering and development to the statistical model of an LLM, then it’s easy to see the problems here. The LLM will not interact with the developers of a library or tool, nor submit usable bug reports, or be aware of any potential issues no matter how well-documented.

Although the authors of this paper are still proponents of ‘AI technology’, their worries seem well-warranted, even if it’s unclear at this point how big the impact is going to be. Software ecosystems like those involving JavaScript, Python, and web technologies are likely to suffer the impact from vibe coding first, as their audiences appear to be more into such vibes, and the training sets were largest.

It’s also a topic that is highly controversial, ever since Microsoft launched GitHub Copilot in 2021. Since then we saw reports in 2024 that ‘vibe coding’ using Copilot and similar chatbots offered no real benefits unless adding 41% more bugs is a measure of success.

By the time we hit 2025, we can observe an even more negative mood, with LLM chatbots in general being accused of degrading the cognitive skills of those using them, vibe coding chatbots reducing productivity by 19%, and experienced developers who gave them a whirl subsequently burning them to the ground in scathing reviews.

All of which reinforces the notion that perhaps this ‘AI revolution’ is more of a stress test for human intelligence than an actual boost to productivity or code quality. Despite the authors pitching the idea that OpenAI or Google could toss a few cents the way of OSS projects when their code is being used, the comparison with Spotify is painfully apt, since about 80% of artists on Spotify rarely have their tracks played and thus receive basically no money for their efforts.

With an LLM statistical model we know with extremely high likelihood that only the dependencies that are most prevalent in the training data set will realistically be used for the output, and we expect that we’ll see something similar happen with this vibe coding compensation scheme.

Even today we can already observe many negative effects from ‘AI slop’ in software development. Whether it’ll be something that’ll choke the life out of the entire OSS ecosystem remains to be seen, but it is hard to envision a bright vibe coding future.

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