BREAKING: Nicki Minaj speaks out on fighting for Christians and her love for Trump in surprise AmFest appearance

Minaj sat down with TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, who asked Minaj her thoughts on President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and the American nation.

"So with regards to the current administration, what has been maybe the biggest surprise for you, or something that you just really has been put under heart, that you've learned about our President and Vice President?" Kirk asked.

"I have the utmost request and admiration," Minaj said. "I don't know if he even knows this, but he's given so many people hope that there's a chance to beat the bad guys and to win and to do it with your head held high and your integrity intact.

"He's from Queens New York, like me. But what it's shown me personally is sometimes, you know, even at even in the worst feeling times in your life, you think that you're never going to come back from it, but you do. And our president shows that he's been through every single thing a person can be through, publicly, having to constantly be lied to.

"It's not really that funny," Minaj went on, "until you are in that person's shoes that's being lied to. You'll never understand what it feels like. That person is a human being. They have a family who has to read those lines, and that's not and it's just not fair.

"But this administration is full of people with heart and soul, and they make me proud of them. Our Vice President, he makes me well. I love both of them. They're both powerful men, smart, strong, all of that, but both of them have a very uncanny ability to be someone that you relate to. I can relate to them. When I hear them speak, I know that they're one of us like I know that they're not. Don't you guys agree?"

The crowd cheered. Many of them were college students.

"They haven't lost they haven't lost touch of the world. You know, they're still connected to the world. And what's happening in the world, with the younger people and older people, with the richer people and not so rich people, they have the ability to still connect and prevail and make us feel proud to be American," Minaj said.

Kirk asked "So why now, have you? Have you been involved with speaking about politics? What was kind of the turning—"

Minaj finished her sentence, "what was the turning point when I just got tired of being pushed around? Sometimes you just get tired of it, and then you realize, wait a minute, I have something inside of me that's stronger than what's out there."

"That's right," Kirk said.

"So when you have enough, you realize, wait a minute, why do I even care about these people and what they think? Who are they? They don't even know who they are, so I'm not going to I'm not going to back down anymore, not going to back down ever again."

Kirk asked the students in the room to raise their hands, and there were so many of them cheering for Minaj. Kirk asked Minaj "why do you think speaking your mind has become so controversial?"

"Because people no longer are using their minds, their brains," Minaj said. Students sitting in the overflow room told The Post Millennial that yes, they feel this way on their campus too, even though they attend a Christian college.

"This is not what the world used to feel like," Minaj said, and especially for the young people, I don't want them growing up in a world where they feel like that. I mean, they deserve for their voices to be heard. Do you guys feel like that?" She asked the crowd. They responded with cheers."

"Charlie would always say it really does not take skill to be courageous. It takes a choice, takes a decision," Kirk said. "And I just, I want to say again, thank you for coming and being courageous and being able to share your heart with us. And the reason why that also holds true sentiment wise, is because I know that you are getting a lot of backlash from your own industry, what is your reaction to that?"

"I didn't notice," Minaj said to cheers.

"Amen. I feel the same way," Kirk said.

"When people are like, what do you think about them and like, I don't think about them. We don't even think about them," Minaj said. "We don't have time to we're too busy going, right, yeah, we're the We're the cool kids. Okay, the other, the other, the other people. They're the ones who are still just disgruntled. But really they're just disgruntled with themselves. They they are angry with themselves, you guys. So you can't wake up and think about somebody who is determined to just stay mad.

"I literally tell them, stay mad, amen, because we're going to stay joyful and peaceful and iconic and smart, and we're going to say thinkers in a world that doesn't want us to think. We will think by ourselves, on our own. We will continue to think," she said.

Kirk asked about Minaj's faith, her advocacy for persecuted Nigerian Christians. "Every time we pray and fellowship, we have to remember the people that are right now in this world hiding to pray and fellowship, and we have to pray for them. And first of all, Nigeria is a place I've always loved," Minaj said.

She said her pastor is Nigerian and that the Nigerian people are very special to her. "Hearing that people are being kidnapped, and while they're in charge, people are being kidnapped. People are being killed, brutalized, all because of their religion, and that should spark outrage in the Great America, and that's what it did. And again, we're not backing down anymore."

Minaj spoke about her faith, coming to be baptized at 13-years-old, and feeling that God is close to her and her relationship with God.

"Since that moment that God had that conversation with me, I've been in such a better space, because now it's just I'm thinking about, is God pleased with this? Not if the bullies and uglies are pleased, but but if God is pleased, and when you have that personal relationship with God, guess what?