周三，妮琪·米娜在推特上发文称，正在竞选连任的纽约州州长凯西·霍楚是一名“邪恶的女人”，背书了霍楚的共和党对手，并建议民主党人即便她赢了也应“放弃她的席位”。三天前，米娜出席了密歇根州的一场竞选集会——表面上是为当地共和党人站台——但她大部分演讲时间都在赞美唐纳德·特朗普总统，并发誓要永远支持他。
On Wednesday, Nicki Minaj tweeted that New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is currently running for reelection, is an “ evil woman ,” endorsed Hochul’s Republican opponent , and suggested Democrats should “forfeit her seat” even if she wins. Three days earlier, Minaj appeared at a Michigan campaign rally — ostensibly on behalf of local Republicans — but spent most of her speech gushing over President Donald Trump, whom she vowed to support “ forever and ever .”
米娜的“让美国再次伟大”式大转变如今已根深蒂固，以至于人们容易忘记这其实是个不小的反转。2018年，米娜曾用同一个社交媒体账号为霍楚竞选副州长背书，当时霍楚与时任州长安德鲁·库莫搭档参选；米娜还谴责了特朗普的移民政策，自称曾是一名“非法移民”。如今，霍楚的政治立场依旧，特朗普的移民政策也并未减少残酷性。那么，是什么导致了这种变化？
Minaj’s MAGA makeover is now so well established that it’s easy to forget it’s a bit of an about-face. In 2018, Minaj used the same social media account to endorse Hochul for lieutenant governor on a ticket with then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and condemned Trump’s immigration policy , describing herself as a former “ illegal immigrant .”Today, Hochul’s still on the same political page and Trump’s immigration policy is no less cruel.
米娜的政治立场大转弯，看起来与其说关乎意识形态，不如说关乎地理——即谁掌握赦免权以及在哪里。这位在纽约皇后区长大的说唱歌手有两名近亲因犯罪被定罪，而唯一有能力给予他们特赦的政客，恰好是纽约州州长和美国总统。
So what could have led to this change? Minaj’s political conversion sure can seem a lot less about ideology than geography — that is, who holds pardon powers and where .
确实，米娜过去曾表现出一种意识形态上前后矛盾、虽倾向“让美国再次伟大”但并不连贯的观点——包括对疫苗的犹豫、迫害妄想、基督教式的虚伪——随后才全然拥抱了她现在的保守派助威姿态。
The Queens, New York-reared rapper has two close family members with criminal convictions, and the only politicians capable of granting them clemency happen to be the governor of New York and the president of the United States.
尽管没有公开证据表明米娜杰在任何一起案件中请求过赦免，但我绝非第一个做出这种联系的人。显然，这一说法已被多次提及，以至于5月份，特朗普顾问亚历克斯·布鲁斯维茨在社交媒体上特意将其称为“令人作呕且可耻的诽谤”，并补充说：“妮基从未向总统提出过任何要求。她只提供过帮助和支持。暗示她在寻求任何回报完全是胡说八道。”
It’s true that Minaj has, in the past, espoused an ideologically incoherent, if MAGA-leaning outlook — including vaccine hesitancy, persecutory delusion, Christian hypocrisy — before she fully embraced her current conservative boosterism. Though there’s no public evidence that Minaj has requested pardons in either case, I’m hardly the first to make the connection.
米娜杰的丈夫肯尼斯·蒂蒂16岁时曾认罪企图强奸；1995年，他因与该袭击相关的多项指控被定罪，并服刑四年半。2019年11月，当时与米娜杰结婚并居住在加利福尼亚的蒂蒂，在比佛利山因交通违规被拦下。这时，当局发现他未在该州登记为性犯罪者，这违反了《性犯罪者登记和通报法》，属于联邦违法行为。由于未登记是联邦犯罪，只有总统可以赦免。
It’s apparently been brought up enough that in May, Trump advisor Alex Bruesewitz bothered to call the suggestion a “ disgusting and disgraceful smear ” on social media, adding that “Nicki has never once asked the President for anything. She has only offered assistance and support. The insinuation that she’s looking for anything in return is total garbage.”Kenneth Petty, Minaj’s husband, pleaded guilty at the age of 16 to attempted rape ; in 1995, he was convicted of mulitple charges related to that assault and served four and a half years in prison. In November 2019, Petty — now married to Minaj and living in California — was pulled over in Beverly Hills for a traffic violation. That’s when authorities discovered he had not registered in the state as a sex offender , a federal violation under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act .
米娜杰的哥哥杰拉尼·马拉杰目前正在服25年至终身监禁，此前他因反复强奸其11岁的继女被定罪。这些袭击据称发生在他在长岛的房子里，因此审判在纽约州法院举行。这意味着，唯一能给予米娜杰兄弟赦免的人是纽约州州长。
Because that failure to register is a federal crime, only the president can pardon it. Minaj’s older brother , Jelani Maraj, is currently serving 25 years to life after being convicted of repeatedly raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter . Those assaults allegedly took place at his house in Long Island, and the trials were consequently held in New York state courts .
一位亲戚需要特朗普。另一位亲戚需要霍楚尔，或者，也许需要霍楚尔被击败，以便一位特朗普顺从的共和党州长可以接任。也许这只是个疯狂的巧合，奥妮卡·坦妮娅·马拉杰，也就是妮琪·米娜，过去一年一直自称特朗普的“头号粉丝”，并承诺——如她周日在密歇根州所做的那样——如果特朗普发动非法第三任期竞选，就支持总统。
That means the only person who could grant Minaj’s sibling clemency is the governor of New York. One relative needs Trump. The other needs Hochul or, perhaps, for Hochul to be defeated so a Trump-compliant Republican governor can step in.
米娜声称对霍楚尔2024年关于布朗克斯黑人孩子“甚至不知道‘电脑’这个词是什么”的言论感到不满，这可能是真的。不过，那意味着她花了两年才得知此事，并暗示她不知道州长几乎立即就这一绝对失误道歉了。（我的意思是，就在过去一周，特朗普白宫在社交媒体上发布了新纳粹口号和一个种族主义南瓜灯，让米娜所谓的对偏见的愤慨显得有点……选择性。）
Maybe it’s just a crazy coincidence that Onika Tanya Maraj , aka Nicki Minaj, has spent the last year calling herself Trump’s “ number one fan ” and pledging — as she did in Michigan on Sunday — to support the president if he undertakes an illegal third-term run . It’s possible that Minaj’s professed grievance about Hochul saying in 2024 that Black kids in the Bronx “don’t even know what the word ‘computer’ is ,” is real. Although, that would mean it took her two years to learn of it and suggests she’s unaware that the governor apologized for that absolute gaffe almost immediately. (I mean, in just the past week the Trump White House has posted a neo-Nazi slogan and a racist Jack-o-Lantern to social media, making Minaj’s supposed outrage at bigotry seem a little…selective.)
2026年10月30日 / 01:23米娜过去也确实宣扬过一种意识形态上不连贯、但偏向MAGA的观点——包括疫苗犹豫、迫害妄想、基督教虚伪——然后才全心拥抱她目前的保守派吹捧。
October 30, 2026 / 01:23
当然。我不是先知，也不是读心术者。但我读过赦免法规，它们当然能解释特立尼达和多巴哥出生的米娜所展现出的这种新政治强硬背后的算计——她直到今年1月还表示，自己仍不是美国公民，因此不能参加美国选举。
It’s also true that Minaj has, in the past, espoused an ideologically incoherent, if MAGA-leaning outlook — including vaccine hesitancy, persecutory delusion, Christian hypocrisy — before she fully embraced her current conservative boosterism. Sure. I am not a seer, nor am I a mind reader.
但无论如何，特朗普都不会在意这种事。这是一位总统，其在所有事情上的权钱交易方式导致了如此猖獗的特赦交易，以至于被称为“赦免经济”。（白宫否认受“赦免经纪人”影响。）现在，已形成一个由政治中间人、游说者、律师及其他腐败经纪人组成的完整生态系统，他们收取高额费用，承诺获得总统赦免，而特朗普在其两个任期内至少已批准了1700份赦免。
But I have read the clemency statutes, and they would certainly explain the calculations undergirding this new political stridency we’ve seen from the Trinidad and & Tobago -born Minaj — who, as recently as January, shared that she still isn’t an American citizen and therefore can’t vote U.S. elections. But that’s not the sort of thing Trump would get hung up on in any case. This is a president whose pay-to-play approach in all things has led to such prolific pardon-peddling that it’s been dubbed a “ pardon economy .” (The White House denied it is influenced by “ pardon brokers .”) There is now an entire ecosystem of political fixers, lobbyists, lawyers and other corrupt brokers who charge exorbitant fees for the promise of presidential pardons, at least 1,700 of which Trump have been granted across his two terms.
说唱歌手Boosie Badazz称，他被两名操盘手骗走了60万美元，对方从未兑现赦免承诺。（两人均强烈否认该指控。）而特朗普能从中得到什么？
Rapper Boosie Badazz said he was swindled out of $600,000 by two operatives , who never delivered on the pardon. (Both vigorously denied the allegation.) And what does Trump get in return?
就是拥有一位“非常著名的黑人、有街头信誉的人”——甚至是一位曾经的批评者——公开表达忠诚所带来的视觉效果。
The optics of having A Very Famous Black Person with Street Cred — a former critic, even — performing public displays of loyalty.
米娜杰成为他向黑人选民证明他们有多么错误的证据，证明他有多么受他们喜爱，同时也成为他们应该投票给他的理由。她在空军一号上发推文，以及随之而来的精心安排的视频拍摄机会，导致头条新闻暗示她正被考虑担任下一任新闻秘书？那也只是一个玩笑——特朗普政府认为自己正在对其认为美国最愚蠢的选民：黑人选民，开这个玩笑。
Minaj becomes his evidence, to black voters, of how wrong they are about how beloved he is among them, while also serving as the reason they should vote for him. Her tweet aboard Air Force One , and the accompanying staged video-op that led to headlines suggesting she was being considered as the next press secretary? That, too, was a joke — which the Trump administration thinks it’s playing on what it considers America’s dumbest electorate: black voters.
周四，媒体就米娜杰的敌对推文向霍赫尔提问时，这位州长称赞了该说唱歌手2018年的支持，并暗示——并非第一次——MAGA对她的大脑有害。
Asked about Minaj’s hostile tweets by the media on Thursday, Hochul touted the rapper’s 2018 endorsement and suggested — not for the first time — that MAGA has been bad for her brain.
“你可以问问她，自己是如何被特朗普毒害的，”州长表示。“这是她必须处理的问题，等到特朗普和MAGA世界消失，他们回到自己来的那个黑洞里去，希望我们能迎来一次觉醒，像她和其他人这样的人物会意识到，他们被灌输的关于这个国家的愿景并非美国人所感受到的。所以，目前成为一个异类，是她的选择。而且，我还想说，在特朗普集会上待太久，对人们的心理健康相当不利。”
“You can ask her how she’s been poisoned by Donald Trump,” the governor stated . “That is an issue she has to deal with, and after Donald Trump and MAGA world has vanished and they go back into their dark holes where they came from, hopefully we can have a reawakening and people like her and others will realize that they were fed a vision of this country that is not what Americans feel. And so being an outlier right now, that’s her choice. And I’ll just say, too much time at Trump rallies is pretty bad for people’s mental health.”