Cardi then talks a little about using her voice on social media to put the spotlight on political issues, and mobilise her followers. “We have this bully as a president and the only way to take him out is somebody winning,” she remarks. “I want to tell my millions of followers: We’re here to educate you guys.”

“Obviously we need to end all forms of racism in this country,” Sanders replies. “From Donald Trump down to the local police department. We have something like one out of four young black men in this country end up in the criminal justice system… That is disgusting and beyond belief. So the first thing we do is we make sure that young people in this country, Black, Latino, Native American, whoever they may be, get the kind of education and job training they need so they can go out and get good jobs. We have to invest in jobs and education.”

The pair didn’t shy away from addressing police brutality either. “If a police officer kills somebody, that killing must be investigated by the United States Department of Justice,” Sanders said, referencing his 2016 calls for police-related shootings to become the subject of automatic federal investigations.

“I don’t want people thinking that we’re trying to attack the police. Because let me tell you something, there was this one time that I started to feel like I hate the police, they’re pigs. But there’s a lot of cops that go in their jobs and they want to protect their people,” Cardi B said.

“So we need police departments that look like the communities that they serve — we get rid of a lot of this militarisation of the police department, which is a form of intimidating people,” Sanders responded.

Bernie Sanders and Cardi B just cemented their political alliance in a nail salon, and it was so inspiring