Cardi B’s recent back-and-forth with a Donald Trump advisor has her feeling like she wants to avoid talking about politics altogether, for her own safety.
During an X Spaces on Thursday (Feb. 26), Bardi looked back on her dustup with Alex Bruesewitz, who accused the rapper of being connected to a report about Nicki Minaj’s newfound conservatism being amplified by social media bots.
She admitted that her recent exchange with Bruesewitz, a Trump media and political advisor who is also close to Minaj, over X — an exchange that included accusations and lawsuit threats — left her unnerved.
“I don't even play that shit. I don't want no smoke with nobody from the fucking government, bitch,” she said.
Her reasoning was simple: she was concerned for her and her family’s safety.
“I don't want no beef with no white folks that work in the motherfucking White House, because, God forbid, my motherfucking plane blow up [on] some weird shit. [Or] I get kidnapped [or] they play with my family,” she explained.
She explained that after responding to Bruesewitz, she was ganged up on by “fans.”
“They attacked me for four, three days straight for no reason,” she said.
“I never even heard of this man. I don't even know this man,” she continued. She said the attacks came not only from the Trump advisor, but also from his attorney.
“Mind you, these are the people that work in the White House,” she reminded her fans. “I might be a celebrity, but at the end of the day, I'm just a regular degular bitch from the fucking Bronx, and somebody that is the right hand man of the president is attacking me for four, five days straight.”
She said that the situation left her “panicking,” and even a little paranoid.
“It makes me feel like people that are in power and are in the White House is watching me and looking at me and stalking me,” she said. “Motherfuckers might be outside my hotel. …. Motherfuckers probably have a satellite on top of my crib. So how the fuck do you think I feel? I feel a little paranoid, because it's like, why me? I've been minding my business.”
Bruesewitz’s attack on Cardi started when Politico reported on a study by “disinformation detection company” Cyabra.
Cyabra found that “a coordinated network of bots — more than 18,000 of them — … drove algorithms to spread Minaj’s posts on X.”
In particular, the posts amplified were ones that emphasized pro-Trump talking points — support for the President, talk about supposed persecution of Christians in Nigeria, and criticism of Trump foil Gavin Newsom. Recently, Minaj has also been speaking out in favor of the SAVE Act, a Trump-supported voter ID bill that, per the Brennan Center for Justice, “would block millions of American citizens from voting.”
Once the Politico report was released, Bruesewitz said that its author should have disclosed that Cardi’s agent, Mike “G” Guirguis, is involved in Cyabra “given the very public disputes in the music industry” — a reference to the long-running feud between Cardi and Minaj.
Both Cardi and Guirguis fired back.
“[M]y advisory role and investment in Cyabra along with multiple other tech companies has absolutely nothing to do with Cardi B,” Guirguis wrote on X.
Cardi responded as well.
“Listen, you involved me in something that has nothing to do wit me so now we’re gonna talk about the facts,” she wrote on X. “Cyabra is a data company with a lot of investors like Mike G, customers like Elon Musk and Pepsi that use that company for data and even has Mike Pompeo on the board of advisors.. so what you need to focus on is the fact that data is VERY real and leave me out of your bullshit.
“I do not have anything to do with that and I don’t give AF!! Now lie and say that’s not true!!! See what happen when you involve me in shit that don’t have nothing to do with me? I get down to the GRISTLE of it!!”