Several conservative groups expressed outrage on Friday after news broke that Amber Rose, the model, TV personality and ex-girlfriend of Kanye West, will speak at the Republican National Convention (RNC).
Critics have blasted the Republican Party for giving Rose, a rapper, model and author of “How to Be a Bad B—h,” so much prominence, with one critic sharing a video of her speaking about Satanism.
“George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis have not been invited to speak at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next week. But don’t worry, rapper and model Amber Rose will be speaking,” read a post from X’s account, Republicans Against Trump.
“Wait until Trump finds out about this tweet,” they added, referring to Rose’s staunch opposition to Trump in 2016.
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Kanye West and Amber Rose. (Michael LoCcisano/Getty Images)
“Hey, fuck him being old and being on TV,” Rhodes wrote at the time, calling the Republican nominee a “sexual predator.”
More recently, however, Rose posted a photo of herself on social media clad in a bikini and wearing a “MAGA” hat, endorsing the presumptive Republican nominee in May, and also shared another photo with the former president and former first lady Melania Trump.
“Isn’t Donald Trump for women’s rights? He’s trying to make America great again, and that means women,” Rose told TMZ’s female camera crew.
“I think [getting convicted in New York] “That would be more helpful to him,” she added, citing the “injustice” it represents.
“We just finished our research and we’re no longer brainwashed by the left,” Rose added.
The Lincoln Project, a coalition of right-wing anti-Trump activists, also lamented the move, saying “this is what the Republican Party has become.”
Conservative “Blaze” host Steve Deese commented, “If this is a culture war victory, it’s for a culture I want no part of.”
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Former President Trump and Amber Rose. (Bill Priano/Getty Images | Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
Fox News Digital also reached out to evangelical leader Ralph Reed and the Faith and Freedom Coalition for comment.
A representative for the Family Research Center, a right-leaning pro-life, pro-family group, also had not responded by press time.
Jonah Goldberg, a conservative columnist who has criticized Trump in the past, simply wrote, “Res ipsa loquitur.”
The phrase comes from Latin and roughly translates to something that “speaks for itself.”
Podcaster Dr Taylor Marshall criticised the differences between Rose’s speech this year and past Trump conventions, where pro-life nun Deirdre Byrne and pro-life activist Abby Johnson were given speaking slots.
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Former President Trump spoke at the Republican National Convention headquarters in Washington, DC on June 13. (Fox News)
“Now they’re trying to platform Amber Rose, founder of The Slut Walk, who is a vocal pro-abortion, pro-LGBT advocate. This is a sharp leftward shift towards decadence,” Marshall said.
But at least one conservative activist welcomed Rose’s speech.
Xavier Durousseau, a past voice of young conservatives on “The Ingram Angle,” said he can’t wait for Rose to “speak the truth at the Republican National Convention.”
“Amber Rose is one of the many black Americans who have finally woken up to the lies of the left after doing their own research into President Trump,” he said, adding that Rose’s inclusion on the guest list was proof the convention would be a “historic event.”
After the news broke, clips of Rose’s past controversial comments began circulating online, with X-user Peter Henline sharing the following clip from a past interview with the Philadelphia native.
“I’m not a Satanist. Satanists are atheists too, but they’re more political. Yes. They’re actually a very rational, logical religion. They help a lot of people, a lot of women, get abortions even though abortion is illegal in southern states,” she said in the video.
The Republican National Committee did not respond to a request for comment at time of publication.
