Amber Rose Backs Donald Trump During RNC Speech: ‘This Is Where I Belong’
Amber Rose completed her 180-degree pivot in throwing her support behind Donald Trump. The 40-year-old model took the stage at the Republican National Convention on Monday night (July 15), where Rose detailed her journey to becoming a fan of the former president.
“I’m here tonight to tell you, no matter your political background, that the best chance we have to give our babies a better life is to elect Donald Trump president of the United States,” she said.
Rose alleged that the media misguided her views about Trump, and she now sees the light that this is the path toward a better America.
“[I] care about the truth, and the truth is that the media has lied to us about Donald Trump. I know this because for a long time I believed those lies,” she added.
After letting go of her fear of being judged and “attacked from the left,” Rose said she figured out being a Trump supporter and with the Republican party is where she belongs.
“I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay or straight. It’s all love. And that’s when it hit me: These are my people. This is where I belong,” she continued.
Rose pointed to the sky-rocketing prices and inflation rate impacting the average American. “When you go to the store to buy food for your family, you’re shocked,” she said. “When you fill up your gas tank, you’re pissed. I know I am, and when you turn on the news, you are just exhausted, inflation is out of control.”
Amber Rose believes that American families were “better” when Trump was in office for his first term. “The left told me to hate Trump and, even worse, to hate the other side — the people who support him,” she concluded. “When you cut through the lies, you realize the truth: American families were better when Donald Trump was president. We were safer, wealthier, and stronger.”
Political commentator Van Jones was impressed with Rose’s speech and believes it was the “most dangerous” of the night for Democrats.
“That was probably the most dangerous speech for the Democratic coalition,” he said on CNN. “That is a young woman of color. She is describing the experience that a lot of people have — feeling that maybe, if you’re around too many liberals, you might get criticized too much or you might not be able to speak your mind, and she spoke to it really well.”
He continued: “And she’s way more famous than any of us up here — I’m going to tell you that — way more famous. And so to the extent that these guys are trying to bust up our coalition, that was a bunker buster right there.”
Rose went public with her support of Trump in May when posting a photo to social media alongside the former president and his wife, Melania. In 2016, Rose called Trump a “f—king idiot” in an interview with The Cut.
Monday marked Trump’s first public appearance since the assassination attempt; he appeared with a bandage around his wounded ear.
The RNC continues on Tuesday night (July 16). Watch Amber Rose’s speech below.
