While at President Donald Trump‘s summit to help introduce his Trump Accounts program, Nicki Minaj and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did the “Beez in the Trap” trend — well, she did the trend, while the cabinet member pretty much just stood there.
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In a video posted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to the official Trump Accounts profile on X, Bessent and the rapper stand back to back while a viral mashup of her hit 2012 collaboration with 2Chainz and 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” plays. The trend usually features one person singing along to “What’s Up” before the camera pans around to a second person rapping the “Beez in the Trap” chorus — which, in this case, Minaj herself did, energetically dancing while mouthing her own bars — but Bessent simply stands still and nods.
The video Trump Accounts shared also features footage of Minaj at the summit, at which she sat next to Bessent in the crowd as well as stood on stage with the twice-impeached POTUS to endorse his new savings account initiative. While at the podium, Trump said that the hip-hop star had contributed “hundreds of thousands of dollars in Trump Accounts,” and later, Minaj showed off the Trump Gold card — which costs $1 million plus a $15,000 DHS processing fee, and expedites the holder’s visa adjudication process — he gave her at the event on social media.
Minaj has been more active than ever in politics in recent months, from speaking at a United Nations event to condemn alleged religious persecution in Nigeria in November to appearing on stage with Erika Kirk at a Turning Point USA conference in December. In a podcast interview with Katie Miller — with whom Minaj also did the “Beez in the Trap” trend — the hitmaker explained why she was motivated to become more active in the space.
“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 Miller in the episode posted Tuesday (Feb. 3). “I felt that a lot of that bullying and the smear campaigns and all of the lying, I felt that that had been done to me for so many years. And I was watching it in real time happen to someone else, and I didn’t think he deserved it.”
Watch Minaj and Bessent’s take on the “Beez in the Trap” trend below.
