MAGA Minaj appeared at a Turning Point USA event in December—in spite of founder Charlie Kirk's disdain for her—and beside Trump at Mar-a-Lago in January to announce the launch of Trump accounts.
Her latest attempt to appeal to the people who would label her an "illegal immigrant" was an appearance on Katie Miller's podcast. Miller is the wife of Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller, largely considered the architect of the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Perhaps searching for a soundbite to make her floundering podcast popular, Katie Miller asked Minaj:
"You know, like other conspiracy theories like did we actually land a man on the moon?"
Not recognizing a setup when it's waving in front of her face, Minaj responded:
"No, I don’t think we landed on the moon."
Miller responded:
"You don’t?"
To which Minaj simply said "no."
Then Miller added:
"I asked Elon [Musk] this one. He said we did indeed land on the moon."
Minaj still shrugged off the possibility of not one, but six moon landings with 12 United States astronauts actually walking on the moon's surface from 1969–1972. Minaj was born a decade later in 1982, so she wouldn't have seen the live coverage of the moon landings.
You can see the exchange between Miller and Minaj here:
Luckily, the Democrats have a member of Congress not only old enough to have watched the moon landings, but who also worked for the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to debunk Minaj's misinformation.
Arizona Democratic Senator Mark Kelly served his country as a NASA astronaut from August 1996 to October 2011. His highly regarded 15 year career included piloting two space shuttle missions, commanding two more missions, spending over 50 days in space, and commanding the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour.
Senator Kelly's service gave NASA the opportunity to study the affects of space travel by comparing his reactions to that of his twin brother and fellow astronaut Scott Kelly. Also a veteran of four spaceflights, Scott Kelly logged 520 days in space, holding the record for the longest consecutive mission by an American astronaut aboard the International Space Station at 340 days.
Prior to and during his time at NASA, Senator Kelly was a U.S. Navy Captain and aviator, flying 39 combat missions during Operation Desert Storm.
The Democratic Congressman retired from NASA and the Navy after his wife, retired Arizona Democratic Representative Gabby Giffords, was shot in the head by a lone gunman with paranoid schizophrenia during a public event. Nineteen people were shot, with six—including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl—dying from their injuries.
Since Senator Kelly has the credentials to be an expert on both space travel and NASA, Meidas Touch Washington D.C. correspondent and editor-in-chief of Migrant Insider Pablo Manríquez consulted him regarding Minaj's comments.
You can hear their interaction here:
Manríquez asked the Democratic Senator:
"What do you make of Nicki Minaj saying the moon landing never happened?"
Senator Kelly responded:
"There’s like a whole crazy community of people out there that believe in these nutty conspiracy theories."
The Arizona Democrat added:
"You know what the Soviets said after [the first moon landing with] Apollo 11?"
"They said, 'congratulations.' [The Soviet Union] tracked us all the way to the surface of the moon and they congratulated us."
The United States' biggest rival in the space race acknowledged that the moon landing happened and, despite tension between the two super powers, never disputed the historic event. The biggest deniers of the moon landing are conspiracy theorists in the United States.
Senator Kelly concluded:
"I would suggest that she lay off the conspiracy theories and study some history."
Others agreed with Senator Kelly's advice for Minaj.
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If Minaj's appearance on Miller's couch was intended to ingratiate her with the MAGA faithful, it didn't work.
Shortly after Miller's podcast went public, Minaj was mocked with racist dog whistles by Fox News pundits who said:
"We brought you into the house. We let you sit at the big table, and you say some dumb sh*t like this."
If the podcast moment was designed by Miller's husband to discredit Minaj, who hasn't brought Black voters to MAGA or the Republican party as the Trump administration and GOP had hoped that adding a Black rapper to their midst would, then the setup question by Katie Miller was a rousing success.
Minaj was an undocumented immigrant who didn't seek citizenship despite having the financial resources to do so. She's married to a registered sex offender with whom she has an "anchor baby" and her "illegal immigrant" brother is in prison for the sexual assault of an 11-year-old child.
Everything MAGA rages about, Minaj embodies.
Looks like MAGA is getting ready to kick Minaj to the curb and it looks like the Millers orchestrated her ouster.
Sometimes you click the wrong name.
Sometimes you click the group, not just one person.
It can be a small thing that's laughable and overlooked.
It can also be a complete CATASTROPHE!!!
Pay attention...
It can save lives and reputations.
Redditor goldie304 wanted to hear about the times people sent text messages to all the wrong recipients, so they asked:
"What’s the worst thing you accidentally texted to the wrong person?"
"Accidentally sexted my MIL once, meaning to text my husband."
"Her response, 'I'm guessing this wasn't meant for me.' And then, while I died a thousand deaths of embarrassment, she said, 'It's ok. It's healthy. I'm glad you guys found each other.'"
- o_simple_thing
"Got in an argument with my mom when I was a teenager, and she told me to go to my room. I went to my room and meant to text my brother saying, 'Mom is such a b*tch!' Then I heard my mom's phone ring in the living room. I realized I had accidentally texted her. Walked out to the living room quietly, expecting her to blow up at me, but she had gone to the bathroom and left her phone in the living room. I grabbed her phone and deleted the text, then ran back to my room. One of the luckiest moments of my life."
- PhatFatty
"When I was in college, I had recently been broken up with by an ex. Another female friend was talking to me about it and had asked what my ex had texted me last."
"So I went and looked and summed it up for my friend and instead texted it to my ex."
"Never been more embarrassed in my life."
- Youngtro
"Not me exactly, but my FWB was hanging out at his place, and I asked him to take a pic of me naked wearing his tie and send it to me on Snapchat. He took a video and sent it. But instead, sent it to one of his female friends who just started messaging him at the same time about how she was having a panic attack, dealing with her abusive dad texting her some awful stuff."
"It was NOT the time for her to see that. She lived up the street. So he immediately calls her, keeps her on the phone so she doesn't open his message, and drives over to her. Gets her to give him her phone so he could see her Dad's messages, and meanwhile deletes his from her Snapchat so she never saw it."
"He spent some time with her to calm her down and make sure she was okay. He came back feeling like a God that he succeeded in his stealth mission and helped her feel better, too."
- DorianFae
"Not text but was on the phone with my GF of the time and was at work (paramedic), I keyed the Mic and said goodnight, I love you. Then told my GF 2412 is clear and returning. Yes, they still make fun of me to this day about it. Mind you, it was 3rd back to back to back shift."
- Recent-Cranberry-878
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"One time, I went on a date with a woman, and a few days later, I asked if she wanted to go out again, and she said no. I told this to one of my friends, and he asked what she said in her rejection, so I took a screenshot. I then proceeded to accidentally send a screenshot of this woman rejecting me to her instead of my friend."
- Raincoat86
"My dad was on an injectable medication for a time, and was in a car crash and broke his wrist. I hate needles, have a phobia, but because of his broken wrist, I had to inject him. He tried making it funny by texting me 'stabby stabby stabby time,' but instead texted this to our new neighbour who was doing work outside his house."
"Neighbor apologised for the noise and said he was nearly done, and tbh to this day I’m not 100% sure he believes us that it wasn’t directed at him! It does sound very weird."
- dhcirkekcheia
"Took the day off work, 'sick' then sent a group chat to all my friends asking who wants to go golf 18 and somehow my boss was a part of our 8-person group chat."
- Zynacious_D
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"Not a text, but at work on an internal messaging system, I typed in the wrong window. 'Dumbest manager ever.' Meant for a coworker, but indeed accidentally sent it to my manager."
"I am not sure how I didn't get in trouble or fired for that. I went to his office and casually said he could ignore the message I sent him; it was accidental."
"And that's what he did without ever even looking at the message."
- Wrong_Thanks1520
"I have sent a picture of my boobs to my mother, of course, accidentally. I was sexting with my husband and had pinned threads and clicked back into the wrong one. I was also living with her at the time, so I had to face her shortly after I sent it. It was the most awkward thing of my life."
- Thespoonwitch
"Not the sender, but when my mom found out that I didn't vote for Trump, she accidentally texted me (meaning to text her sister, I think), lamenting that her son had broken her heart again and gone over to the dark side. I still have no idea how I broke her heart the first time."
- DieVaultDev
"I messaged my boss, what are your sexual boundaries? The text was meant for a lady from Tinder. Luckily, he never responded, and the next convo went on as if nothing happened."
- East-Phone-6059
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It's hard to recover from a lot of this.
Like I said... texting can be perilous.
Text sober.
Text sane.
It just might save you!
