Nicki Minaj has tried to recruit a killer doll to the red team, and the man who created him wasn’t having it on Election Day.
On Tuesday, the rapper posted an AI-generated image of Chucky in a pink suit and a “Vote Red” badge, with a caption wishing everyone a happy Election Day. The post was meant to nudge her followers toward Republican candidates. But it also sent the franchise’s creator, Don Mancini, straight to his keyboard.
Mancini answered fast. He replied right under her post and called the doll an “IMPOSTER,” insisting the real Chucky is riding with the blue wave. Then he got specific. In a separate post, he laid out the doll’s politics: Chucky has a trans kid, protects the dolls, and is anti-ICE. That’s a pointed reference, since the franchise gave Chucky a child, Glen, who later became Glenda.
The kicker came after the polls closed. Mancini shared a photo of a Chucky doll with blue hair, told Minaj “Too bad, Nicki!” and added that there was no AI involved. That last line was a shot at the very thing she posted. Minaj has leaned hard on AI imagery all year, including those much-mocked Trump pictures she dropped in February.
The clapback landed after Democrats took back both the Senate and the House on Tuesday. Minaj had urged her young fans to vote red for months, stood onstage with Trump in Michigan, and showed up at a New Hampshire polling place, yet every candidate she endorsed lost.
Now, Minaj hasn’t responded publicly. The Daily Beast notes she has been quiet on social media since the losses.