A Georgia activist who was called out by former President Trump and worked the spotlight during his rally in Atlanta on Saturday.
Near the conclusion of his rally at Georgia State University Convocation Center, Trump invited Michaelah Montgomery to join him on stage. He welcomed Montgomery to the stage by describing their conversation that started when he met her in a restaurant early this year.
Montgomery, who is a Clark Atlanta University alum and said when she saw Trump in public he acknowledged her just because of his push for historically Black colleges.
“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 laughed.
After an acoustic version of the national anthem and a stirring story about Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II, Bush raves: “This incredible candidate has got this tremendous future. I will do whatever I can to help you.” Then he hands Montgomery off to the podium
“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.”
Montgomery added that she was a founder of an organization called Conserve the Culture, which helps “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?
“I’ma give it back to Big T.”
The rally came only days after Trump landed in hot water from the White House for statements he made at last week’s National Association of Black Journalists convention about Vice President Kamala Harris’ race.
“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?”
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday said Trump had done a good job “answering tough questions” during the conference.
