President Donald Trump and his administration may have made a new ally, and it's the last person many would have expected.

Trump's UN Ambassador Mike Waltz reportedly invited rapper Nicki Minaj for an official visit after she praised comments Trump made in defense of Nigerian Christians some have said are facing persecution there.

She shared an X post by Trump stating that Christians were facing an "existential threat" in Nigeria and asking Congress to investigate and report back to him.

Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude. We live in a country where we can freely worship God.

No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.

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— Nicki Minaj (@NICKIMINAJ) November 1, 2025

"Deep sense of gratitude"

“Reading this made me feel a deep sense of gratitude,” she began in her post. “We live in a country where we can freely worship God. No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion. We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order for us to respect each other.”

She continued, “Numerous countries all around the world are being affected by this horror & it’s dangerous to pretend we don’t notice. Thank you to The President & his team for taking this seriously. God bless every persecuted Christian. Let’s remember to lift them up in prayer.”

Waltz responded by thanking Minaj for her comments and offered for her to visit the embassy.

“@NICKIMINAJ, thank you for using your platform to speak out in defense of the Christians being persecuted in Nigeria. We cannot allow this to continue. Every brother and sister of Christ must band together and say, ‘Enough!'” Waltz wrote on X in response.

He added, “If you ever find yourself in New York, come by the US Embassy to the United Nations. I would love to speak with you in more depth about what our administration is doing to protect Christians’ freedoms all over the world.”

Is it persecution?

While many Nigerians have been killed in recent fighting between factions, news sources have blamed criminal elements and groups for the slaughter and have said that Muslims as well as Christians are being attacked.

There's plenty of persecution against Christians in the world, but Nigeria may be something else entirely.

According to the Associated Press, the majority of attacks are happening in the Muslim-majority north, and most of the attacks are against Muslims.

“There is no systematic, intentional attempt either by the Nigerian government or by any serious group to target a particular religion,” Information Minister Idris Muhammed told AP, for whatever that's worth.

That didn't stop Trump from threatening to go in "guns-a-blazing" to wipe out Islamic terrorists there.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he wrote on Truth Social. Trump added that he had instructed the Department of War to “prepare for possible action,” warning, “If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”