Amber Rose, Who Started Anti-Rape SlutWalk Protest, Is Now a Full ...

When one is at a loss for words, it can be helpful to borrow from those who have come before you to express how you feel. For example, RuPaul’s Drag Race season 5 winner Bob the Drag Queen may have best summed up the mass reaction to Amber Rose, model and noted former Kanye West paramour, getting a MAGA makeover and going full Donald Trump surrogate: “AMBER?!?!?! WTF.” That was Bob’s comment on Rose’s Instagram back in May, when she shared a photo of herself alongside the former president/current felon/Republican presidential candidate and wife Melania Trump with a caption that left no room for misinterpretation: “Trump 2024.”

Yes, Rose, like newly minted Trump vice presidential pick J.D. Vance, previously spoke out against Trump before backing him, calling him “a fucking idiot” when discussing Trump in an interview with The Cut in the lead up to the 2016 election. “He’s just such an idiot. He’s so weird. I really hope he’s not president.” Earlier this week, Rose appeared at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to voice her support for the Republican presidential candidate, an about-face from her previous criticisms that many found puzzling.

On Monday, Rose, who founded the anti-rape SlutWalk protest march, introduced herself to the MAGA faithful as “a model and entrepreneur, but most importantly, I’m a mother.”

“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 as President of the United States,” she said.

And how does she know this? Because her dad told her so, duh. Though during her speech Rose said she was “shocked” that her father was pro-Trump, so she did her own research. Now, she didn’t say what that research unearthed to change her prior belief that Trump is racist, or what could make a purportedly anti-rape activist publicly throw her support behind an accused rapist. She may not have shared hard numbers or facts, but Rose did open up about her feelings about grocery shopping and Melania Trump's smile.

“When I met the President and Melania for the first time, he was kind and generous and funny as hell—very funny,” she said. “The First Lady was gracious and smart, with a smile that will brighten up any room. If you're watching this tonight, you know our country is in trouble. Just like me, when you go to the store and buy food for your family, you're shocked. 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, and you know in your heart it was not like this under Donald Trump.”

“I let go of my fear of judgment, of being misunderstood, of getting attacked by the left, and I put the red hat on too,” she said.

Rose has been many things in her 40 years on this planet: A model, music video star, author of How to Be a Bad Bitch, activist, curator of “over 900 insane emoji,” OnlyFans marquee talent of her own “digital strip club,” etc.

Could she add “cabinet member” to that list during a possible Trump administration?

In her speech, Rose insisted, “I'm no politician, and I don't want to be, but I do care about the truth.” It may not sound like someone who’s angling for a cabinet seat, Rose has shown us that she’s open to changing her mind on other issues. There’s the whole Canada thing, for one: Back in 2016, while telling The Daily Beast that she thought it was time for her candidate of choice, Hillary Clinton, to “just shit on everybody and be the powerful woman that she is,” she said that if Trump won, she'd move to Canada. She did quickly take that back in the Cut interview, reasoning, “Canada is way too cold.”

So, sure, Canada is off the table, but we're all waiting to hear what she thinks of a work-related relocation to Washington D.C.