Georgia activist Michaelah Montgomery stole the show at GOP nominee Donald Trump’s rally in Atlanta on Saturday after the former president himself introduced her.
Trump invited Montgomery onto the stage towards the end of his speech at the Georgia State University Convocation Center, sharing that he had met her earlier this year at a restaurant, Fox News reported.
Trump said that Montgomery, a graduate of Clark Atlanta University, had spotted him in public and praised him for his support of historically black colleges and universities.
“She looks at me, says, ‘It’s President Trump. You saved my college.’ And I said, ‘How the hell do you know that?’… This one is so smart, so sharp,” Trump recalled.
“She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss,” he added. “I said, ‘I think I’m never going back home to the first lady.’”
“You were supposed to keep that quiet,” Montgomery responded with a laugh.
Trump lauded Montgomery, describing her as “incredible” with a “tremendous future,” and said he would do “whatever I can to help you,” before turning the podium over to her.
“I do want to add on to some of the remarks that were made by others,” the conservative activist began. “And we do need to do our best to get the message out there. The fight is nothing if all we do is talk about it amongst ourselves.”
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Montgomery went on to say that she was a founder of a group called Conserve the Culture, which exists to “mobilize the HBCU students so that they may get this [conservative] message.”
“Nobody needs this message more than my folks, so do y’all care for real?” Montgomery said to the cheering audience. “Are y’all with us for real? Ima give it back to Big T.”
The rally occurred days after the White House criticized Trump for statements he made at the recent National Association of Black Journalists convention regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
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Fox News’ Harris Faulkner praised Trump for braving the hostile environment and enduring some “nasty” questions.
Faulkner, who co-moderated a panel conversation with Trump on Wednesday, said during a “Fox & Friends” appearance the following day: “I’m watching that back and I’m seeing that we were able to, at some points, the former president and I, have a conversation. So much of what America is focused on today and so much of what that started with, with all that emotion and the gotcha moments from the interviewer who was seated directly to his left has really overtaken the fact that we had an opportunity to talk with a president who walked into a racial storm yesterday.”
“There were journalists, activists, whatever you want to call people who let their politics show, who wanted the NABJ to rescind its offer to have the 45th president of the United States come and sit,” added Faulkner.
“They had also invited Joe Biden, and he had said yes, but he’s not on the ticket anymore. They’ve also invited Kamala Harris. Finally yesterday, after some reported back and forth about her schedule, so on and so forth, she’ll do something via satellite. And I know she’s attending Representative Sheila Jackson Lee’s funeral today, but NABJ is several days; it’s five days, Wednesday through Sunday. So, that has been worked out,” she noted further.
