Nicki Minaj’s Chucky Post Draws A Rebuke From His Creator
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Nicki Minaj put Chucky in a pink suit to push a vote for red. The man who created him disagreed.
Don Mancini responded on November 4 after the rapper used an AI image of the killer doll in an Election Day post. Her version wore a “Vote Red” badge. Mancini called that doll an “IMPOSTER” and placed his own character on the blue side.
He also pointed to the family he wrote for Chucky, linking the dispute to the horror series itself.
“Chucky has a trans kid. Chucky protects the dolls. Chucky is anti-ICE,” Mancini wrote on X.
In a follow-up, he shared a blue-haired Chucky and addressed Minaj by name: “Too bad, Nicki! No AI, by the way!”
Minaj’s use of the doll dates back well before this week’s vote. On July 25, she posted a pink-haired Chucky after Donald Trump made her the subject of a twerking joke at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Her caption looked ahead to the next time she would see him.
That earlier Chucky post left room for debate about whether she was teasing an ally or taking a shot at him. The badge on her Election Day image made the party message clear.
Her support for Trump also remained public in the months between those posts. During a September 18 appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” she described why she felt close to him.
“It’s easy to connect with him. It’s easy to feel like he heard you. He understands you. I just love him,” she said.
Mancini’s reference to a trans child drew on a part of the franchise that predates the current fight. Glen and Glenda returned as nonbinary characters in Season 2 of “Chucky,” played by Lachlan Watson.
Watson explained that Mancini had chosen their looks before casting them. The hair and clothes helped show who each twin was rather than sort them by gender.
The looks also matched the twins’ different traits. Glen’s long hair gave the shy character a place to hide, while Glenda’s short cut kept their face in view.
“This informs their character so much better than the gendering of those haircuts ever would,” Watson said.
