What did Nicki Minaj say on Twitter?
A RATHER bitter war of words has broken out between Nicki Minaj on one side and Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson on the other.
The row exploded after the US rapper said she just yet and was a no-show at the glamorous Met Gala.
What did Nicki Minaj say on Twitter about Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson?
In a series of Twitter messages, she told fans she would only get immunized once she’d done enough research.
Nicki, 38, skipped the Met Gala after she refused to get vaccinated.
The singer took to on Monday, September 13, 2021, to explain the reasons behind her no-show.
She told her fans: "They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t 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. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one."
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Before admitting she won't get vaccinated, fans on Twitter asked Nicki why she wouldn't be attending the Met Gala.
The rapper responded: "I have an infant with no nannies during Covid. who mad? Not risking his health to be seen. One yaself."
She claimed a friend of her cousin developed swollen testicles and impotence after getting vaccinated against Covid-19.
This led to the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking about the vaccines myths.
The rapper then responded to being called out by tweeting over a video of Whitty's comments: "I love him even tho I guess this was a diss? The accent ugh! Yassss boo!!!"
And she replied to the PM by sharing a recording: "Yes, hello Prime Minister, Boris, it's Nicki Minaj - I was just calling to tell you that you were so amazing on the news this morning.
"And I'm actually British. I was born there. I went to university there. I went to Oxford.
"I went to school with Margaret Thatcher. And she told me so many nice things about you.
"I'd love to send you my portfolio of my work, since you don't know much about me, I'm a big, big star in the United States."
The singer, who was actually born in Trinidad and Tobago, tweeted about the tongue-in-cheek recording: "Send this to the Prime Minister and let him know they lied on me.
"I forgive him. No one else. Only him."
What did Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson say about Nicki Minaj?
The UK's Chief Medical Officer Whitty slammed the "ridiculous" and "strange" vaccine myths peddled by US rapper Nicki.
Whitty said: "There are several myths that fly around, some of which are just clearly ridiculous, and some of which are clearly designed to just scare.
"That happens to be one of them. And it's untrue.
"There are a group of people with strange beliefs and that's fine, and they make their own choices. People are adults they are allowed to make their own choices.
"But there are also people who go around trying to discourage other people from taking a vaccine which could be life-saving or prevent them from having life-changing injuries to themselves.
"And many of those people, I regret to say, I think know that they are peddling untruths but they still do it.
"In my view, they should be ashamed."
Responding to the question from journalists, Johnson said: "I'm not as familiar with the work of Nicki Minaj as I probably should be, but I am familiar with Nikki Kanani, superstar GP of Bexley.
"She will tell you that vaccines are wonderful and everybody should get them.
"So I prefer to listen to Nikki Kanani."
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has also waded into the argument, slamming Minaj for peddling "ridiculous" myths and "outright lies" about the Covid vaccines.
Javid fumed: "I don't want to draw attention to such ridiculous tweets.
"People in the public eye, whether a celebrity or politician, should be very careful with their language and certainly should not be spreading untruths.
"They should really be honest with people about how these vaccines are working, how they're saving lives and allowing us to get back to normal."
What did the Health Minister in Trinidad and Tobago say about Nicki's claims?
On September 15, .
“We wasted so much time yesterday running down this false claim,” Dr Terrence Deyalsingh said during a press conference as he bashed the rapper.
Dr Deyalsingh claimed the county's health service had “wasted time” trying to track down the claim.
His disgruntled response went viral.
“One of the reasons we could not respond in real-time to Ms. Minaj,” he said, “is that we had to check and make sure that what she was claiming was either true or false.
"It is as far as we know at this point in time, there has been no such reported either side effect or adverse event.
"And what was sad about this is that it wasted our time yesterday trying to track down… because we take all these claims seriously, whether it is on social media or mainstream media," he said.
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Dr Deyalsingh added: "As we stand now, there is absolutely no reported such side effect or adverse event of testicular swelling in Trinidad or I dare say… anywhere else. None that we know of anywhere else in the world."
On September 14, Dr also responded to the claims saying there was "no evidence" to back up Minaj's remarks.
