Nicki Minaj told Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, that Donald Trump had 'won three elections'. Trump has won two presidential elections. He won in 2016 and 2024 but lost the 2020 race to Joe Biden. Cheung posted the Air Force One exchange to X on Sunday 25 October.
The clip came from the president's own media team. Nine days before the 3 November midterms, Cheung joked that Minaj could be the next press secretary, and his caption did not mention the error. Trump called the 2020 election 'rigged' on at least 107 occasions over six months, a Reuters review found in May.
