Valuetainment - November 23, 2025


ā€œTrump Has LEVERAGEā€ - Will The U.S. SAVE Nigerian Christians From Islamic Persecutionļ¼Ÿ


Episode Stats

Length

13 minutes

Words per Minute

179.40105

Word Count

2,510

Sentence Count

235

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary

Nicki Minaj praised for highlighting persecution of Christians in Nigeria, and who is she applauding? The last person you would think she would applaud, the current administration of what is taking place in Nigeria. Did you say Nicki MINaj? Yes, you said it.


Transcript

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.
00:02:39.920 Okay, no nothing about these African Christians that are getting murdered.
00:02:45.140 Okay, 2023, Scott, 4,100 Christians killed.
00:02:48.080 That's 82% of all faith-based killings in the world.
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.
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 ā€“ 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 ā€“ 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.
00:04:22.440 We're looking for an actual ā€“ there's a couple of them that send to all
00:04:26.260 persecuted Christians.
00:04:27.240 We're finding one that's going to go directly to them.
00:04:29.760 You can go to vtmerch.com.
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.
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 ā€“ 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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
00:08:39.800 And now it's too big to ignore, and they're 50% Muslim country now.
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.
00:10:03.740 It will be us that takes care of these people killing the Christians, or it will be nobody.
00:10:10.480 He can do an energy embargo.
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.
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%.
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.
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.
00:11:25.680 And Christians, for the most part, are the ones in their way.
00:11:29.420 The Jews are only in their way in Israel.
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.
00:11:42.600 Now they're all Muslim cities, and they won't stop until they take over now Northern Africa and beyond.
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