Amber Rose, the model and actress who was likely the Republican National Convention’s most unconventional speaker, explained who gave her the push to out herself as a Donald Trump fan.
Rose sat down for a taping of conservative commentator Candace Owens’ YouTube show, which will be released in full on Friday.
In clips obtained by DailyMail.com, Rose said it was ex-husband, rapper Wiz Khalifa, who pushed her to publicly show her support for Trump.
She did so on social media in May, writing ‘Trump 2024’ as a caption of a photo of the model with the former president and first lady, all in formalwear.
‘My ex-husband actually told me to do it, Wiz,’ Rose told Owens.
Amber Rose (right), the model and actress who was likely the Republican National Convention’s most unconventional speaker, explained to Candace Owens (left) who gave her the push to out herself as a Trump supporter
Amber Rose publicly came out in support of Trump with an Instagram post in May – something she says ex-husband Wiz Khalifa encouraged her to do
Owens had asked Rose – whose other famous ex is disgraced rapper Kanye West – what compelled her to show her support for MAGA, commenting that it became a ‘moment on the internet.’
The clip cuts off before Rose divulges more details beyond naming Khalifa as her inspiration.
She did admit that she believed embracing Trump would result in her getting canceled.
‘When I went out on a ledge and I posted the picture with me, Trump and Melania that was my moment where I was like, “I’m f***ing done, I’m done,”‘ she recalled.
Rose also said that at first-glance she wasn’t sure how she would be treated as she headed to the Milwaukee convention, noting that she looked around and saw ‘a lot of white men in suits.’
‘And so I can understand why maybe a person of color or somebody who comes from the left would be intimidated by that because maybe that’s not the norm that we’re used to be around,’ Rose said.
Wiz Khalifa (left) and Amber Rose (right) at a music industry event in 2017. The couple are divorced now, but Rose divulged that the Black and Yellow rapper encouraged her to be publicly supportive of the MAGA movement
Rose explained that one of Trump’s speechwriters helped her pen her address and that she didn’t think it would resonate with the crowd. ‘It definitely changed my life,’ she remarked of the aftermath, as convention attendees flocked to her for pictures
Overall, she was enthralled by the experience.
She said that one of Trump’s speechwriters helped her pen her address.
‘I wrote my speech with one of the writers who works for Trump,’ she explained. ‘I told them everything that I wanted to talk about. I didn’t want to talk about the border, I didn’t want to talk about all that stuff. I wanted to just keep it like my mom, I wanted to talk about the economy, inflation, things like that.’
‘My story – how I came over to this side,’ she continued. ‘And they wrote something up and I kind of put it in my own words, and that’s what everyone saw at the RNC.’
During her remarks, the model explained that her father had become a supporter of Trump, someone she believed was racist, a characterization her dad denied.
‘So to prove my father wrong, I did my research and looked into all things Donald Trump,’ she said onstage.
‘I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay or straight, it’s all love,’ Rose said. ‘And that’s when it hit me, these are my people, this is where I belong,’ she added to cheers.
‘I realized Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re black, white, gay or straight, it’s all love,’ Rose said. ‘And that’s when it hit me, these are my people, this is where I belong,’ she said during her address last week to the Republican National Convention
Amber Rose sits in the audience at the Republican National Convention two nights after delivering a speech onstage – which brought her newfound fame on the American right, with her saying she posed for ‘3,000 pictures in four days’
She told Owens that she did not think the speech would resonate.
‘I was just like there’s so many speakers going up, no one knows me in the political world … and honestly the whole day before I spoke, maybe there was like some young girls that were my fans and stuff that wanted pictures but other than that no one really knew who I was there,’ Rose said.
‘And right after that speech, boy, I must have taken like 3,000 pictures in four days,’ she recounted. ‘I promise you it was like from the morning into the night. Downstairs in the hotel, outside at the RNC, walking to the RNC … it definitely changed my life.’
The rapper was still processing her newfound fame on the right.
‘I’m just a girl from Philly,’ she told Owens.