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Trump's Nicki Minaj Joke and the Racial Stereotype Debate | Entertainment and Celebrity News
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A viral clip of Donald Trump joking that Nicki Minaj twerked at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner after gunshots—claiming she was the only one who “got” the phrase “get down”—has ignited a firestorm online. With over five million views, the moment has sparked intense debate, with critics calling the joke racially charged and rooted in harmful stereotypes. Some point to a decades-old riddle about Black soldiers in Vietnam as a troubling precedent. Amid widespread disbelief and outrage, the clip continues to circulate, exposing the unsettling normalization of such humor in today’s political and cultural discourse.
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