Kanye West’s ex Amber Rose claims media ‘lied about Trump’ as she takes to stage at RNC
Model and TV personality Amber Rose claimed that the media “lied to us” about Donald Trump as she took to the stage at the Republican National Convention to endorse the former president and reveal how she has shifted her support to the Trump camp.
Rose, former girlfriend of Kanye West,spoke on day one of the convention on Monday, not long after Trump arrived to a raucous welcomewith a bandage on his ear after surviving an assassination attempt at the weekend and just hours after he announced Ohio Senator JD Vance as his vice presidential pick.
“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,” the mother-of-two said on stage at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin event.
While she is “no politician,” she said that she does “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 said, as the camera panned to a grinning Trump in the crowd.
Rose explained that she was previously critical of Trump saying that she had “believed the left-wing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist” and was shocked when her father had previously told her he was going to vote for him.
However, her opinion started to shift when she watched “all the rallies” and started to meet so many of his “red hat-wearing supporters”.
“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.”
After letting go of her “fear of judgment” and being “attacked by the left,” the TV personality said that is