Adam Rippon has been inspired by Nicki Minaj in his choice of Halloween costume.
The ice skater and former Olympian posted photos of himself to Twitter and Instagram yesterday sporting a bloodied bandage around his upper arm and a comically swollen pair of testicles, along with a vaccine card bearing his name and vaccine shot status.
Happy Halloween 🎃 https://t.co/1GqBgWthVv pic.twitter.com/a2cwBYsnfq
— Adam Rippon (@AdamRippon) October 31, 2021
The outfit was inspired by an infamous Twitter posting Minaj made in September. Explaining why she didn’t attend the Met Gala, the rapper said it was because the organizers had insisted all attendees be vaccinated.
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At the time, Minaj had decided against it, saying “My cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding. So just pray on it & make sure you’re comfortable with ur decision, not bullied.”
Fact checkers subsequently found no record of anyone reporting swollen testicles following vaccination in Trinidad. The country’s health minister, Terrence Deyalsingh, even publicly criticized Minaj’s comments as inaccurate and misleading.
At the time of writing, Rippon’s tweet has been liked over 110k times and had 15k re-tweets.
This year’s costume follows last year’s Cardi B inspired outfit. In 2020, Rippon posted his interpretation of a ‘WAP’ (Wet Ass Pussy).
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Max
LOL, that’s such a good costume
UncleFloppy
I like his sense of humor; both costumes were funny.
barryaksarben
very and not a single fake muscled MU closet case super hero bs where a man is a man unless he likes that cute little Spiderman a little too much. WHo dodesnt love a pait of lowhangers – as long as they are healthy
BoylesqueBubble
Minaj and Cardi B. can’t stand one another, it’s well documented. So this actually isn’t the second time he’s worn a Minaj inspired costume, because “Wet Ass Pu**y” was Cardi B. and Megan Thee Stallion. Research much?
sterlingarcher
Thank you so much for posting this! I can’t believe that a queerty writer could get that wrong!! Not going to lie, I had to double check when I read it though… I love them both, but am not current on their status
cuteguy
Creative
greekboy
Vulgar! Inappropriate! Unseemly! An Olympic champion should set a higher bar. My opinion of him just tanked. Will avoid any mention of him in the future. BYE FELICIA
dougie
Oh, get over it. It’s funny! Plus, Rippon is really cute.
barryaksarben
WTF. VUlgar? what should he have been? a sexy nurse? grow the FK up. he is a smart gay man and Id be ashamed of him if he wore some lame as hell Marvel comic superhero commercial bs. Both these took some thought but hey Im sure your squeaky clean little (and I do mean little) life is full of pretend outrage.
MISTERJETT
you act like it’s the end of the world. it’s not that serious!!!!!
Mack
Jealous because you didn’t think of it.
Openminded
Please check your panties greekboy. If you can’t laugh at this they are obviously in a wad. On top of being funny AF, it helps send a good message about the necessity of vaccinating.
Mehki
Nicki is an id-i-ot.
Hank31
For Halloween, he should have gone in drag. Which for him means dressing up like a man.
domen8r
“Should have”?!? Like you “should have” not been so triggered by someone unafraid of expressing something besides the macho BS that you hide behind? You, my lady, doth protest too much, and the projection of your misogyny is juvenile. If Rippon threatens your masc mask, don’t click on articles covering him—much less feel the need to assure us how much more of a man you are. We already know it’s not true.
gregg2010
Says Hank31 better known as Helium Heels.