A Georgia activist stole the spotlight after being introduced by former President Trump at his Atlanta rally on Saturday.
Trump invited Michaelah Montgomery to the stage toward the end of his speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center. He introduced Montgomery by explaining that he had met her at a restaurant earlier this year.
Trump said Montgomery, who attended Clark Atlanta University, had publicly acknowledged and praised him for funding historically black colleges and universities.
“She looked at me and said, ‘That’s President Trump. You saved my university.’ And I said, ‘How the hell do you know that?’ … This one is so smart, so sharp,” Trump recalled.
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Michaelah Montgomery stole the show after being introduced by former President Trump at his rally in Atlanta on Saturday. (Getty Images/Fox News)
“She grabbed me and kissed me,” he added. “I said, ‘I don’t think I’ll ever go back to the first lady.'”
“You were supposed to keep that a secret,” Montgomery laughed.
The former president congratulated Montgomery, describing her as “incredible” with a “tremendous future,” and told her he would do “everything I can to help her,” before giving her the floor.
“I would like to add something to what has been said by others,” the conservative activist began. “And we must do our best to get the message across. The fight is useless if we just talk about it among ourselves.”
Montgomery added that she is the founder of an organization called Conserve the Culture, which helps “mobilize HBCU students so they can get this [conservative] message.”
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Montgomery attended Clark Atlanta University and acknowledged it publicly recently. (Fox News)
“No one needs this message more than my people, so do you really care?” Montgomery asked the cheering audience. “Are you really with us?”
“I’ll give it back to Big T.”
The rally came days after Trump was criticized by the White House for statements he made at the recent National Association of Black Journalists convention about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
“She’s always been of Indian descent, and she was just promoting her Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was black until a few years ago when she became black. And now she wants to be known as black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or black?”
At the end of his speech, Montgomery mentioned his organization, Conserve the Culture. (Fox News)
On Wednesday, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson praised Trump for “answering tough questions” at the conference.
“I applaud my friend @realdonaldtrump for stepping into a hostile environment at @NABJ today and answering some tough questions,” Carson said in a message on X.
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