‘Mr Accountability’ Comedian Mike Epps Apologizes For Crude Sexual Joke About Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump
Comedian and actor Mike Epps issued a heartfelt apology on Tuesday (Feb. 10) for a crude, sexualized joke he told about Nicki Minaj and Donald Trump on Friday (Feb. 6) during a stop on his We Them Ones comedy tour at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky.
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In an Instagram story, Epps said, “Y’all know I’m Mr Accountability. You know, I say stuff and do stuff, and then I go to bed, wake up the next morning, [having] prayed on and thought about it. I just want to apologize to you, Nicki Minaj, for saying the stuff that I said. I want to apologize to your husband, your kids, all that for saying what I said.”
According to NSFW video of the bit viewed by Billboard, Epps crudely suggested that Minaj had engaged in a group sex activity with Trump and others and joked about the rapper allegedly doing sexual favors in exchange for help with her U.S. citizenship.
“I’m a comedian,” Epps continued. “Sometimes I get on that stage, and I have a little drink, and I go wild. I’m non-filtered. So, just wanted to apologize to you. Not explaining myself, but I am Mr. Accountability… I love apologizing, which is something a lot of people don’t know how to do. [I] apologize to you, Nicki.”
Minaj, 43, has emerged as a member of the MAGA faithful lately, coming to Trump’s defense in a recent podcast appearance where she said that it wasn’t the second-term president’s policies that drew her to speaking out but rather the way he’s “been treated” by the public that inspired her to voice her public support for the divisive second-term command-in-chief.
“Religious freedom is something that’s very important to me, but if I’m being honest, President Trump … when I saw how he was being treated, over and over and over, I just couldn’t handle it,” Minaj told podcaster Katie Miller. The “Super Freaky Girl” rapper recently posed alongside POTUS at his Trump Accounts Summit, where they embraced and Minaj declared herself the president’s “No. 1 fan.”
In a 2018 tweet that has resurfaced in recent weeks amid Minaj’s full-throated embrace of Trump, the MC revealed she was brought to the U.S. illegally from Trinidad as a five-year-old. Not long after her Summit meeting with Trump, Minaj (born Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty) posted on X that Trump had handed her a Trump Gold Card — which comes with a fee of more than $1 million — and which could potentially expedite the Trinidad-born artist’s path to U.S. citizenship after nearly 38 years of living in the U.S. “Finalizing that citizenship paperwork as we speak as per MY wonderful, gracious, charming President,” Minaj wrote on X last month. “I wouldn’t have done it without you.”
Also after the meeting, the New York Times reported that the “Gold Trump card free of charge” Minaj bragged about was actually a “memento” rather than an official “visa document” according to a White House official, and thus it probably has little to no value for the rapper who has been a legal permanent resident for nearly two decades.
