Patriot Brief
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Social media remarks: Cardi B criticized the United States during an Instagram Live while visiting Saudi Arabia.
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Praise for Saudi Arabia: The rapper highlighted wealth, cleanliness, and strict laws in the Middle Eastern country.
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Mixed reaction expected: Her comments contrasted sharply with Saudi Arabia’s restrictions on religious expression and personal freedoms.
Another celebrity has discovered that America is only worth loving when it is footing the bill. While performing in Saudi Arabia, rapper Cardi B used social media to slam the United States as “ghetto,” complain about paying taxes, and gush over what she described as wealth, order, and luxury overseas. From mocking American poverty to praising strict laws abroad, the rant quickly raised eyebrows. Critics say it is a familiar pattern of elite privilege, where the freedoms, prosperity, and protections of the U.S. are taken for granted until the spotlight shifts elsewhere. This time, the comparison did not land the way she may have expected.
Breitbart reports:
Rapper Cardi B took to social media to trash the United States while in Saudi Arabia, telling her fans “Y’all need to convince me to come back,” before noting that she hasn’t seen a single “bum” in the Middle Eastern country and said everyone she encounters appears to have “that real money,” unlike “ghetto” America.
“I’m starting not to like America,” Cardi B told her 164 million followers in a recent Instagram Live video. “America made me pay taxes, the Vice President talking shit about me on Twitter, like, I don’t know, I don’t feel I’m appreciated in America.”
“Y’all need to convince me to come back. I don’t know if I want to go back. Convince me, now. Beg me to come back to America. I don’t think I might go back,” the “Please Me” rapper added. “I don’t know, I’m not feeling America right now.”
Cardi B proceeded to call the United States “ghetto,” adding, “That is not my life anymore. I’m a new woman over here.”
“I haven’t even seen a bum,” she said. “I don’t think there’s bums here.”
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For many Americans watching from home, the irony was impossible to miss. A celebrity who built her career in the United States was praising a country where free speech, religious expression, and dissent are tightly controlled, all while mocking the nation that made her fame and fortune possible.
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