Rapper Nicki Minaj is apparently
concerned about
the Coronavirus vaccine.
In fact, even though she claimed
she was invited to the Met Gala,
she didn't attend because there was
a vaccine mandate.
So in one of her tweets she says,
they want you to get vaccinated for
the Met.
If I get vaccinated it won't be for
the Met.
It'll be once I feel I've done
enough research.
I'm working on that now.
In the meantime, my loves, be safe.
And to her credit she says,
wear the mask with two strings that
grips your head and face.
Not that loose one.
So, look, to give her credit,
she's not one of these lunatics
who's like, anti-vax, anti-mask.
She's worried about the vaccine,
and to be fair, there's a lot of
disinformation out there.
Now what's unfortunate is that
she added to the disinformation,
which was then
validated by Tucker Carlson on Fox.
Let's watch.
>> And in another tweet she added
this, she said that her cousin in
Trinidad quote,
won't get the vaccine because his
friend got it and became impotent.
His testicles became swollen.
His friend was weeks away
from getting married, now that girl
called off the wedding.
So just pray on it and
make sure you're comfortable with
your decision, not bullied.
Which seems sensible,
>> Which seems sensible,
Tucker Carlson says.
Now, Anthony Fauci was asked to
fact check this by Jake Tapper
which was fascinating.
I will admit,
that was a little silver lining
[LAUGH] to this entire story.
So I do want to go to that video
next and then we'll talk about
the whole joy and read angle to it.
>> I want you to address what she
said because for anyone out there
who has any questions about this,
Dr. Fauci, is there any evidence
that the Pfizer, the Madonna or the
J&J vaccines cause any reproductive
issues in men or women?
>> The answer to that, Jake,
is a resounding no.
There's no
evidence that it happens, nor
is there any mechanistic reason to
imagine that it would happen.
So the answer to your question is
no.
>> So fear not,
your testicles will be intact.
You don't have to worry about
any swelling or any other issues.
The gentleman that Nicki Minaj was
referring to is probably dealing
with some other issues that have
not been disclosed to her.
But nonetheless, >> Yeah.
Or he's watching white Lotus and
a thought, my God, wait,
is this what's happening to me?
Okay, so look,
here's the situation.
Should Nicki Minaj have
told a Rando's story by
the way of a guy who took God knows
what vaccine in Trinidad, right?
So I don't even know if that's
a Pfizer, Madonna or Johnson and
Johnson remembering all the- >> We
don't even know if it has anything
to do with the vaccine.
He might have other issues.
>> No we do know it has nothing to
do with the vaccine.
The vaccine could not possibly make
testicles grow larger or smaller.
It as Fauci bothered to explain
there.
There's no mechanism in the vaccine
that would go to your balls.
[LAUGH] >> No I felt like no one's
made this point,
like Nicki Minaj through this poor
guy under the bus, right?
>> Yes. >> Because there are people
in her life who know exactly
who she's talking about.
Everyone's like,
did you hear about this guy?
Got swollen testicles. >> No,
in fact, we,
unlike Joy-Ann Reid and others,
we did our research and
I read her whole Twitter line and
she talks about that.
And she's like, I'm so sorry.
And she joked.
Don't tell him it was me.
[LAUGH] >> She is like 12 million
Twitter followers or whatever
Instagram followers, right?
>> [LAUGH] So, yeah.
>> It's so good.
>> So she's keeping her as she
knows, right?
And she said by the way and
this is the important context,
that she'll probably get vaccinated
later because she's going on tour
with Drake and he's vaccinated.
And she said,
a lot of people have jobs so
they got to get vaccinated.
And so she said, that's good,
that's okay, etc.
So at the same time that she
tweeted that about the testicles.
No, of course not.
Because some people will believe
her, especially when you're talking
about guys testicles, then like
they're like red alert, red alert.
And so, Jake Tapper is not wrong to
do that segment, because you
actually do have to debunk it.
Otherwise, some percentage of
people will believe it, right?
And so that's why she should have
been more careful.
But again,
if you look at Nicki Minaj is
timeline she's not often careful.
>> No, she's lashing out.
>> Yeah. >> Lashing out the critics
which Nicki- >> You gotta
like that.
>> Nicki, I always love people who
lash out of critics, but listen.
[LAUGH] >> I said you're reasonable
with the whole mask thing, so
don't come at me, okay?
By the way, I'd be shocked if she
even knew we existed.
But nonetheless, she did lash
out to people like Meghan McCain,
who said this is entirely too
much Internet for the day.
She basically told her to eat crap.
Okay. >> Using the actual
expletive but
then there's Joanne Reid thing, and
she went hard after Joanne Reid.
And all right, so
let's get to that, okay?
Joanne Reid, you know, says that
she's disappointed in Nicki Minaj.
Let's watch how she covered it.
>> People like Nicki Minaj I have
to say this,
you have a platform sister that
is 22 million followers, okay?
I have 2 million followers.
You have 22 million followers on
Twitter for you to use your
platform to encourage our community
to not protect themselves and
save their lives.
My God sister you could do better
than that, you got that platform.
It's a blessing.
It's a blessing that you got that,
that people listen to you and
they listen to you more than
they listen to me.
For you to use your platform to put
people in the position of dying
from a disease they don't have to
die from, my god as a fan as a hip
hop fan and somebody was your fan,
I'm so sad that you did that.
>> All right, so get ready, okay?
But buckle up because this is about
to take some twists and turns.
So Nicki Minaj responds to this and
she's very upset.
She says,
this is what happens when you're so
thirsty to down another black woman
by the request of the white man.
You didn't bother to read all my
tweets, my god sister do better.
Imagine getting your dumb ass on
TV, a minute
after a tweet to spread a false
narrative about a black woman.
So I was like man, Nicki, I don't
know like you're going a little too
hard against Joanne Reid.
But then in a subsequent tweet,
she called
out Joanne Reid on something pretty
accurate which was Joanne Reid
herself in 2020 questioned whether
we should trust the vaccine,
because Trump was in charge.
So she had tweeted, I mean,
will anyone, anyone at all,
ever fully trust the CDC again?
And who on God's earth would trust
a vaccine approved by the US FDA?
How do you get a vaccine
distributed after this broken?
Trump is nonsense has infected
everything, even if Biden wins.
So Nicki Minaj, by the way,
embedded that tweet in one of her
tweets where she called Joanne Reid
some names that I literally can't
repeat on the show.
But I do think that,
that point about her being
a hypocrite in questioning
the vaccine is a decent one.
>> Yeah, so
here it gets very complicated.
So first of all, let me correct
the record 22 million followers on
12 for Nicki Minaj.
And so for those of you who don't
know Nicki Minaj supported
Bernie Sanders.
And ensure he hates Bernie Sanders.
And so is that a part of this?
I would be shocked if it wasn't
a part of this.
My guess is she's been waiting for
an opportunity to say, see,
Nicki Minaj doesn't know anything.
>> Did you really support Bernie?
>> Yeah, yeah, big time.
Yeah.
>> I hope you are not mixing her
up with Cardi B >> My god,
I'm so sorry I am.
I'm the worst, okay?
[LAUGH] Correct reaction.
>> Keep me off the camera please.
>> Correct reaction, I'm so sorry.
Okay, that's two corrections.
All right, now,
I am the worst boomer in American
history.
>> Correct. >> Okay.
Now I want to support Nicki Minaj
let alone Cardi B, okay?
But she called her and
I'm going to say this one it says
other things we can say.
But she called her and
Uncle Tom called jewelry and
Uncle Tom.
Here's another piece of
context that is
actually true that you should know.
And by the way, right wing,
you see when you're wrong,
you correct yourself.
It's not that hard.
So Joanne Reid and
I do not get along.
We used to get along and
we were good acquaintances and
liked each other.
We've said some things privately to
each other that are pretty harsh,
massive understand your own, okay?
So she despises progressives.
And has done more damage to
progressives than almost anyone in
the country.
Anyone on Cable News, okay?
So but no that does not deserve
getting called an Uncle Tom,
that's way too much, way too much.
>> Yeah I agree.
>> Right?
And so and
it's not even logically connected.
And so, look, I love how hard
Nicki Minaj goes in the comments
because it feels so unrestrained.
It's like a breath of fresh air.
And in the midst of doing that,
sometimes you'll get to some truths
that other people would
be afraid to say, right?
But at the same time, given
that people are following you, and
it's affecting things, you do have
to have some brakes in the car.
And so I think she went beyond
the brakes of the car on the on
the comment about testicles,
but also in how
hard she went after Joanne Reid.
And I'll defend Joanne Reid again
and the shocking
twist here on the CDC comment too.
If Trump tells you to take any
medicine including bleach, yeah,
you should have a note of caution.
It makes a giant difference if
there's a literal madman in office
or a normal corporate bureaucrat
like Biden in office.
So yes, I would trust Biden and
I would have trusted a lot of other
Republicans that are corporate
Republicans, not on anything else.
But if they say,
hey, CDC is actually Trump,
I wouldn't trust him.
As far as I can throw them, so
I don't think
Joanne Reid was necessarily wrong
about that comment.
>> Yeah, I mean, look,
I certainly like internally I don't
think I ever vocalized it publicly.
I was concerned with Trump's
leadership because he was
pressuring government agencies to
do things and
luckily they were resisting, right?
So it gave me a little bit of faith
to see both the FDA and
the CDC push back against Trump and
not just do anything and
everything he wanted them to do.
So I get what you're saying about
Joanne Reid's previous tweet about
not trusting the vaccine.
But at the same time,
she should have been able to take
a good hard look at, again,
these government agencies,
that didn't just go along with what
Trump wanted them to do, and didn't
do his bidding during the pandemic.
>> Yeah. >> Much to his anger and
disdain.
>> And guys, I say one last thing,
look Try to do as we,
not in mixing up incredibly famous
people.
[LAUGH] >> Don't include we in that
equation.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, sorry, my bad, me.
Be honest no matter which side
you're on.
>> Right. >> So normally,
I don't agree with shorter read on
politics at all.
But it doesn't mean she's
necessarily wrong about X, Y, or Z,
and there's new us.
She even wrong about something and
right about something else.
The same for Nicki Minaj.
If you're a giant Nicki Minaj trend
that doesn't mean you have to
believe there's giant testicles and
Trinidad, right?
But it also doesn't mean you throw
her under the bus for
things she didn't say.
>> Right. >> Right?
So let's try to stick to reality as
much as humanly possible.
That shouldn't be a controversial
position, but
often in American media, it is.