Cardi B recovered from an onstage fall with a quip about the US government at a recent stop on her ‘Little Miss Drama’ tour.
While performing 2018’s ‘Thotiana’ at a tour stop in Las Vegas last night (February 13), the rapper fell backwards off a chair towards the end of the track. After wrapping up the song, she quipped: “That was the government!”
It followed Cardi and Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trading jabs online after she used a previous concert to hit out at ICE, telling the crowd: “If ICE come in here, we’re gonna jump they asses.
“I got some bear mace in the back,” she added. “They ain’t taking my fans, bitch. Let’s go!” Her comments soon caught the attention of the DHS, who wrote on social media: “As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behaviour.”
They were referencing a 2016 video of Cardi, in which she claimed to have drugged and robbed men while she worked as a stripper before becoming famous.
She addressed the backlash in 2019, sharing a statement explaining that she “made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options. I was blessed to have been able to rise from that, but so many women have not. Whether or not they were poor choice at the time, I did what I had to do to survive.”
Cardi B jokes after falling at her ‘Little Miss Drama’ show:
“That was the government!” pic.twitter.com/yYmQDPG4BZ
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 14, 2026
More recently, she fired back at the DHS’ mention of her past actions in a post on X, writing: “If we talking about drugs let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them. Why yall don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?”
Her post comes after three million new documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein were released on January 30 by the Department of Justice. The release, which included 2,000 videos and roughly 180,000 images, marked the latest in a slew of material released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law intended to reveal information collected during two decades of investigations involving the late convicted paedophile.
Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for sex trafficking and was found dead in his jail cell in August of that year, with authorities later determining that he hanged himself. Following his death, a sustained campaign emerged, pushing for the full publication of all documents and photos that would reveal the high-profile names he associated with.
The files reportedly contain more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife, Melania, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, and other related words and phrases, per the New York Times.
The president has consistently denied any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein and has said he did not know about his crimes.
His administration has repeatedly hit out at Cardi, and late last year, after the ‘WAP’ rapper reignited her long-running spat with Nicki Minaj, Vice President JD Vance got himself involved, supporting Minaj’s take.
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