WASHINGTON — Rap superstar Nicki Minaj is pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund new $1,000 tax-advantaged investment accounts for her fans’ newborns, as part of a program the Trump administration is launching this year, The Post has learned.
Minaj will join President Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and others for a Trump Accounts summit on Wednesday touting the program’s tax-deferred retirement accounts for children.
The “Super Bass” hitmaker’s contributions could mean investments between $150,000 and $300,000 to her fans to help set up baby “Barbz” accounts, though the final number is in flux, sources said. She’s expected to make the announcement alongside Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, who’s developed a close relationship with Minaj as the administration’s “celebrity whisperer.”
“I absolutely love my Barbz,” Minaj, 43, told The Post in a statement, referencing her fanbase. “I want to see them bring healthy, and successful children into the world. Becoming a mother was the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me, and I want others to experience the same joy my son has brought into my life.”
“I know raising a child can be expensive and challenging at times, so I’m committed to doing whatever I can to support them,” added Minaj, who has a son, 5.
All kids born between Jan. 1, 2025, and Dec. 31, 2028, will be eligible for $1,000 from the Treasury Department to kickstart their own account under the newly launched Trump administration program.
Parents and employers may additionally contribute up to $5,000 and $2,500 per year, respectively, until the child turns 18 years old. Funds can’t be accessed before then.
The Queens-raised artist’s net worth now reportedly tops $190.5 million — and she hopes that her contributions to the Trump administration’s program will go a long way in increasing the next generation’s financial literacy.
“This program will benefit everyone, decreasing the gap for future prosperity between children who traditionally aren’t born with a full bank account & children who are,” said Minaj, who rose from project housing in Jamaica, Queens, to selling the most albums and singles of any female rapper in America.
“I believe it will have the most profound impact on urban communities, which often face greater financial challenges,” she added. “It’s an excellent way to educate kids on the value of investing, saving, and managing money responsibly.”
Minaj has recalled in past interviews the “adult burdens” she carried growing up in a family that immigrated from Trinidad and struggled with finances, at times forcing her to kneel at the foot of her bed to pray for enough money to take care of them.
“You figure out the value of money when you come from a different country, and then you don’t have what the other kids have,” she told Vogue in a December 2023 sitdown. “Children know a lot more than you think regarding poverty.”
The Trump accounts initiative is also her second major foray into the administration politics after she delivered a stark warning to the United Nations about the plight of Christians being “targeted, driven from their homes and killed” in Nigeria.
Minaj is also among several allies of the initiative opening up their pocketbooks for “MAGA” babies.
In December, Michael and Susan Dell said they would donate a whopping $6.25 billion to the initiative, allowing for even children under the age of 10 who were born before 2025 to get up to $250 in their accounts.
Hedge fund manager Ray Dalio also announced a $75 million donation to Trump accounts for children in his home state of Connecticut.
BlackRock, Charter Communications, Visa, Mastercard and Uber have similarly committed to making contributions.
The accounts were tucked into Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill that passed Congress and the president signed into law on Independence Day last year.
The tax-deferred accounts will be made available through a new IRS form, known as Form 4547, a nod to Trump’s presidential numbers, with a sign-up sheet being posted on the Treasury’s website this May.
Bessent has said contributions will be able to roll in starting July 4, 2026.
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