Nicki Minaj has fired back at RuPaul’s Drag Race star Heidi N Closet after the drag queen branded the rapper “MAGA Minaj” over her recent praise for US president Donald Trump.

The beef between the two has resurfaced five years after the “Super Bass” hitmaker appeared as a guest judge on the first episode of Drag Race season 12 in 2020, during which she criticised contestant Heidi N Closet’s hair and makeup.

Heidi pulled the star up on her criticism during the episode’s Untucked companion episode, and the simmering tension between them has been a joke among the Drag Race fandom since.

On 22 December, Heidi tagged Minaj in a post on X, formerly Twitter, hours after the rapper had appeared on stage at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in conversation with Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk.