Valuetainment - “Trump Has LEVERAGE” - Will The U.S. SAVE Nigerian Christians From Islamic Persecution？

00:00:00.060 While all of this stuff is going on, while all of this stuff is going on, you got Nicki Minaj out of nowhere.

00:00:08.860 Comes praising who? You ready for this?

00:00:11.280 Go for it.

00:00:11.800 Nicki Minaj praised for highlighting persecution of Nigerian Christians.

00:00:18.820 And who is she applauding?

00:00:20.660 The last person you would think she would applaud.

00:00:22.860 The current administration of what is taking place.

00:00:26.120 Did you say Nicki Minaj? Yes, I said Nicki Minaj.

00:00:28.600 The rapper? Yes.

00:00:30.900 Nicki Minaj is garnering praise for using her platform to shed light on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria.

00:00:38.000 Ahead of Minaj is scheduled at the United Nations with U.S. Ambassador U.N. Mike Waltz.

00:00:43.460 Knox Thames, a human rights lawyer, thanked the rapper for the attention that she and other stars like Bill Maher have brought to the issue.

00:00:52.860 The challenges in Nigeria have been happening for decades and they've largely been ignored.

00:00:56.660 So I welcome these unsuspecting allies shining a light on this, Thames said.

00:01:01.620 Rob, if you want to play this clip, here's Nicki Minaj.

00:01:03.960 ...in way too many places.

00:01:06.800 In Nigeria, Christians are being targeted, driven from their homes, and killed.

00:01:13.340 Churches have been burned, families have been torn apart, and entire communities live in fear constantly, simply because of how they pray.

00:01:28.680 Sadly, this problem is not only a growing problem in Nigeria, but also in so many other countries across the world.

00:01:35.940 And it demands urgent action.

00:01:40.320 And I want to be clear.

00:01:43.100 Protecting Christians in Nigeria is not about taking sides.

00:01:48.140 Awesome.

00:01:48.840 Or dividing people.

00:01:51.080 It is about uniting humanity.

00:01:53.700 Nigeria is a beautiful nation with deep faith traditions and lots of beautiful barbs that I can't wait to see.

00:02:06.020 When one's church, mosque, or place of worship is destroyed, everyone's heart should break just a little bit.

00:02:14.700 And the foundation of the United Nations with its core mandate to ensure peace and security.

00:02:20.920 Vinny, thoughts?

00:02:22.140 Well, Pat, I haven't heard of Nicki Minaj since, you know, God knows when, when she started blowing up in the hip-hop world.

00:02:29.500 I'm so happy and so proud of her.

00:02:33.260 Out of every celebrity, Scott, I haven't heard anybody.

00:02:35.800 No LeBron, no Colin Kaepernick, no BLM, no nothing. 0.94

00:02:39.920 Okay, no nothing about these African Christians that are getting murdered. 0.98

00:02:45.140 Okay, 2023, Scott, 4,100 Christians killed. 0.54

00:02:48.080 That's 82% of all faith-based killings in the world. 0.91

00:02:52.280 2,024, 3,100 Christians killed.

00:02:55.560 January through August, Pat, of this year, 7,000 more Christians were murdered.

00:03:00.320 I sent Rob a clip.

00:03:01.540 I believe, Pat, this is gunmen that you don't see anything graphic.

00:03:04.700 You hear the shooting.

00:03:05.760 Storm St. Mary's Catholic Church in Nigeria.

00:03:07.860 They kidnapped dozens of students.

00:03:09.840 Imagine this, Scott.

00:03:10.800 We're in church and this happens.

00:03:11.800 Go ahead, Rob.

00:03:13.640 You play?

00:03:16.880 And then, boom, they're shooting outside.

00:03:21.100 And boom. 0.96

00:03:22.100 Kidnapped 12 kids.

00:03:23.740 Look at this.

00:03:24.560 Two people killed.

00:03:26.360 Okay?

00:03:27.020 This is what's happening.

00:03:28.360 And this is happening all the time, Rob.

00:03:31.100 And then you can stop it, Rob.

00:03:32.160 Since 2009, 185,000 people have been killed in the conflict and 125,000 Christians.

00:03:39.760 Okay?

00:03:40.320 And I get it that prayers, guys, and I'm telling you right now, really, really quick, Pat.

00:03:43.820 I saw this video of this witch, something.

00:03:47.640 She was like Satan worshiping something, Scott.

00:03:50.100 She said that she was so into this world, she would see auras of people.

00:03:54.360 And she said the hardest people for her to get to.

00:03:56.180 I got goosebumps.

00:03:57.200 She could see, when people were praying over people and stuff, a blue shield.

00:04:00.860 I'm not even being – I'll find the clip.

00:04:03.300 She goes, we left those people alone.

00:04:04.680 And even though prayers do work, me and Pat had a conversation.

00:04:08.340 We want – I do a faith-based shirt, Scott, called Faith Over Fear.

00:04:12.800 So we made a Nigeria version that says pray for Nigeria.

00:04:17.440 And we have the Faith Over Fear on the back.

00:04:19.420 That's awesome.

00:04:19.880 All the prophets are going to go to Nigeria. 0.77

00:04:22.440 We're looking for an actual – there's a couple of them that send to all 0.99

00:04:26.260 persecuted Christians.

00:04:27.240 We're finding one that's going to go directly to them.

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00:04:31.260 Guys, talk is talk.

00:04:33.400 We love the prayers.

00:04:34.720 But every prophet that we get, it's the shirts and the hoodies. 0.98

00:04:38.420 We're going to send it to them.

00:04:39.580 And, Rob, can you please do me a big favor?

00:04:41.360 Show the church of the pastor preaching if you can.

00:04:45.380 Because these people – you want to talk about Faith Over Fear?

00:04:47.800 They know the danger is there.

00:04:49.140 Look at this.

00:04:49.520 Their church was blown up, and they still show up because their faith is stronger than fear.

00:04:54.100 Play this real quick, Rob.

00:04:56.260 They're still in church.

00:05:00.780 That's Faith Over Fear personified in real life.

00:05:04.240 That's what I'm talking about.

00:05:05.740 So, again, guys, Faith Over Fear.

00:05:07.860 We're going to send all the prophets to a Nigerian charity to help these people because they're 0.97

00:05:12.940 going through it right now.

00:05:13.780 And I love Nicki Minaj.

00:05:14.980 Scott, the only one, the only one saying anything.

00:05:19.200 Period.

00:05:19.800 It's dangerous in the entertainment business to stand up for any kind of conservative values,

00:05:25.020 any kind of Christian values.

00:05:26.280 It takes a lot of courage to do it.

00:05:27.480 You know what is amazing to me about this story?

00:05:29.660 A lot of energy expended in this country by media and people in that world for the supposed

00:05:36.120 genocide in Gaza.

00:05:38.120 No energy expended.

00:05:42.540 This is murder statistics you just read.

00:05:45.080 That is a genocide against Christians, okay? 0.71

00:05:47.200 That's what's happening in Nigeria.

00:05:49.140 A lot of protests, a lot of news coverage, a lot of discussion about this problem in Gaza

00:05:55.460 they are mad about.

00:05:57.160 Nothing.

00:05:58.480 Nothing for these people.

00:05:59.340 Why?

00:06:00.240 What's the difference?

00:06:01.400 Yeah.

00:06:01.760 I'll tell you the difference.

00:06:02.720 They're Christians.

00:06:03.380 That's the difference.

00:06:04.120 I mean, they don't care.

00:06:04.720 And so Trump and some of the Republicans, now Nicki, I mean, I'm glad they're bringing

00:06:10.660 attention to it because you're not going to get it out of the media or the cultural,

00:06:14.240 you know, thought leader types.

00:06:15.880 They're all worried about certain areas of the world, but they don't worry about this.

00:06:20.640 I wonder why.

00:06:21.000 Is that weird?

00:06:21.660 In Nigeria, the right people are dying. 1.00

00:06:23.700 And let's just call it what it is.

00:06:25.120 As far as the liberal media is concerned, the right people are dying.

00:06:28.440 And that's where it goes.

00:06:29.820 But also, this is a case study.

00:06:32.500 Nigeria has been classically constitutionally neutral, number one. 0.67

00:06:38.280 Number two, it's actually the 10th largest oil reserves in the world.

00:06:42.680 And there's a lot of companies, the usual suspects, that are huge in petroleum, that have

00:06:49.000 JVs getting Nigerian oil.

00:06:51.280 And the Nigerian government has said, oh, these are non-state groups.

00:06:56.480 Well, over the last 10 years, Nigeria has just now ticked over what percent Muslim population?

00:07:03.020 51.

00:07:04.100 51% Muslim.

00:07:05.640 And the government's saying, no, no, these are non-state groups conducting this.

00:07:09.760 And the West, the media doesn't give it attention.

00:07:14.960 And the West doesn't really, it's got a lot of pressures coming not to get in the hair of the government over there.

00:07:24.360 Because the government is the one that has the thumb down on the oil reserve exports.

00:07:31.600 So the entire petroleum industry would like to keep everything chill and keep getting oil out of Nigeria.

00:07:37.800 It's very simple.

00:07:38.660 The media doesn't want to talk about the Christians because the right people are dying. 1.00

00:07:43.160 And so this Islamic emergence, it's the largest Islamic country now on the continent of Africa, is Nigeria.

00:07:51.700 Two hours ago, breaking news.

00:07:53.980 Gunmen have kidnapped 52 Catholic school students in Nigeria.

00:07:58.760 This is literally happening right now.

00:07:59.960 So you have gunmen breaking into a Catholic school and kidnapping 52 kids in a Catholic school in Nigeria.

00:08:07.680 This is a government saying, oh, we're neutral, and it's grown up around them, and now it's too big to ignore, and it's almost too big to stop.

00:08:15.680 That's what's happened, Pat.

00:08:16.960 You see this?

00:08:17.920 So now they're the largest Islamic country on the continent of Africa.

00:08:23.080 The government wants to keep the, doesn't want to jump in and have to do the dirty work of sorting through this.

00:08:29.620 They'd rather just keep, they're very rich in oil and minerals, they'd rather just keep that part of it going.

00:08:35.040 Oh, these are non-state groups that are in the middle of nowhere, and it's not really a genocide.

00:08:39.100 Baloney! 0.90

00:08:39.800 And now it's too big to ignore, and they're 50% Muslim country now. 1.00

00:08:42.820 And what do you think is going to happen to these 52 students, these Catholic kids?

00:08:46.940 What do you think is going to happen to them?

00:08:48.620 I don't even want to think about it.

00:08:49.220 We need action, Ron.

00:08:50.260 We've seen the things, we've seen mass graves, we've seen sites of shootings, we've seen them burned inside buildings.

00:08:55.940 I don't even want to think about the potential peril that's there, but I want to think about it as a government that won't stand up and do anything and go out and take care of it.

00:09:05.860 The limited police actions and the limited effectiveness against these groups is horrifying.

00:09:11.740 Don't worry, we've got the United Nations.

00:09:13.960 Oh, yeah.

00:09:14.400 I'm sure they're on it.

00:09:15.520 I'm sure they're on it.

00:09:16.560 You know what?

00:09:17.040 You mean the same United Nations that gets up and leaves when Bibi Netanyahu gives a speech?

00:09:20.940 I'm sure they're all over it.

00:09:22.640 Sometimes Hollywood's caricatures are correct, and in a movie done by some conservative satirist, Trey Parker, called Team America, they have hands bricks.

00:09:35.940 And he says, and what will you do about it?

00:09:38.160 We will send you a letter telling you just how upset we are.

00:09:41.700 Yeah, and that's it.

00:09:42.700 Welcome, the U.N.

00:09:44.020 Trump has leverage.

00:09:45.260 You know, he's threatened these guys, and, you know, he does have leverage over them, economic and other kinds of leverage.

00:09:51.160 I mean, he's pretty exercised about it right now.

00:09:53.580 We'll see what he wants to do, but I wouldn't wait for the rest of the world to get on it.

00:09:57.760 I mean, it will be us or it will be nobody.

00:10:00.300 I mean, that's the sad reality.

00:10:01.840 It will be us or it will be nobody. 0.93

00:10:03.740 It will be us that takes care of these people killing the Christians, or it will be nobody. 1.00

00:10:10.480 He can do an energy embargo. 0.91

00:10:12.300 Exxon is huge.

00:10:13.780 Shell is huge, but that's Royal Dutch.

00:10:15.840 He could tell Exxon, I don't want you buying any of the oil from there.

00:10:19.440 I want to shut off the funds coming to them because I need to get the government's attention so that they can take care of their people and take care of what's going on here.

00:10:27.020 And that doesn't take American troops.

00:10:29.660 It takes one American pen.

00:10:30.920 You know, you talked about this earlier, Scott.

00:10:32.800 I'll just kind of put a ribbon on it.

00:10:35.720 Nobody talks about this because we've learned over the last couple of years, no Jews, no news. 0.74

00:10:39.120 Christians are the most persecuted people on earth, unfortunately.

00:10:44.400 They're on the verge of extinction in the Middle East because certain people in the Middle East don't want them in their country anymore.

00:10:51.000 Here's a quick little thing.

00:10:51.920 Lebanon used to be mostly Christian.

00:10:54.160 Now it's less than a third.

00:10:56.120 Syria, 14%, 1%. 0.80

00:10:58.240 Jordan, 20 down to 2%.

00:11:00.060 Iraq, Christians are getting run out of the Middle East.

00:11:02.960 And I wish it was just Nigeria. 1.00

00:11:04.720 You see what's going on with the Druze in Syria, the Christians in Syria, with the Kurds all over the Middle East, all over the Levant, the Yazidis.

00:11:14.840 These certain elements of Islamism, I'm not saying Islam, Islamism, political Islam, wants nothing but Sharia law and jihad. 0.96

00:11:25.680 And Christians, for the most part, are the ones in their way. 1.00

00:11:29.420 The Jews are only in their way in Israel. 0.99

00:11:32.340 Christians are everywhere all over the Middle East.

00:11:33.860 Every single major city, Beirut, Damascus, Baghdad, the list goes on.

00:11:39.980 They all used to be Christian cities. 0.96

00:11:42.600 Now they're all Muslim cities, and they won't stop until they take over now Northern Africa and beyond. 1.00

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Valuetainment - November 23, 2025

“Trump Has LEVERAGE” - Will The U.S. SAVE Nigerian Christians From Islamic Persecution？

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