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September 15, 2021 However, the White House is denying that a visit had been offered and says it only offered Nicki a phone call with medical experts after she posted inaccurate claims about the COVID-19 vaccine, which received backlash. As we have with others, we offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she has about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine, a White House official told NBC News On Wednesday evening, Nicki went live on Instagram to refute the claim and insist that a visit had been offered. Do yall think I would go on the internet and lie about being invited to the fucking White House? Like what? Do you guys see what is happening right now? she asked. Nicki claims that her team got a call from the White House inviting her to meet with Dr. Fauci, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek Murthy. She said she would rather not travel and suggested doing an Instagram Live. But they have never taken that off the table for me to come to the White House, she insisted. A post shared by Barbie (@nickiminaj) During her 14-minute IG Live, she took shots at the Democratic Party and MSNBCs Joy Reid, who she called an Uncle Tomiana. She also posted a message on her Instagram Stories suggesting that Malcolm X would express vaccine hesitancy if he were alive today. Yall gotta stop pretending to love ppl with backbones, she wrote. If Malcolm X were here, hed be asking questions & most of yall that holler Black Lives Matter & protect Black women would be telling them him to shut-UP & fall in line. Yall say these ppls names but embody the spirit of a coward. After her controversial comments, she claims her Twitter account was suspended. Im in Twitter jail yall. They didnt like what I was saying over there on that block, she wrote on IG Stories. However, a spokesperson for Twitter told Vulturethat they did not take any enforcement action on Nickis account. Twitter has locked Nicki Minajs account in response to her tweets about the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more