New York Post

WH red carpet for Nic on vax

- Samuel Chamberlai­n

Are you a Grammy-winning rapper with millions of social-media followers who won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because it allegedly made your cousin’s friend’s testicles swell? If so, the White House wants to talk.

However, if you are an ordinary Jane Q. Public who may be afraid the vaccine will make you infertile, the White House has a different message for you: Get the shot or get fired.

Press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledg­ed Thursday that the Biden administra­tion has offered to explain the vaccines to Nicki Minaj (pictured) one-on-one after the rapper made the eyebrow-raising claim to her 22.7 million Twitter followers earlier this week that her cousin’s friend had become impotent after getting vaccinated.

But the Biden administra­tion has yet to hear if she will take them up on the offer.

“We offered a call with Nicki Minaj and one of our doctors to answer questions she had about the safety and effectiven­ess of the vaccine,” Psaki told reporters. “This is pretty standard and something we do all the time.”

The Trinidadia­n-born rapper, 38, tweeted Wednesday that she had been “invited” to the Executive Mansion, but Psaki claimed the idea was only being discussed “at staff levels” and noted that the White House was “not even at the point of discussing . . . the mechanisms or the format or anything along those lines. It was simply an offer to have a conversati­on and an early-stage call.”

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