By Martha Williams and Tate Delloye For Dailymail.com
20:36 16 Jul 2024, updated 21:08 16 Jul 2024
Cranky old-school conservatives were horrified when a stripper turned reality TV-star turned nearly-nude internet model with a face tattoo was announced as a speaker on the first night of the Republican National Convention.
But Amber Rose’s address on Monday evening was met with cheers from the MAGA faithful in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and trepidation from President Donald Trump’s critics.
On Tuesday, CNN political commentator Van Jones described Rose’s speech as ‘the most dangerous’ of the evening for the Democratic party.
Rose — a 40-year-old, mixed-race, mother-of-two, who is popular on porny website OnlyFans — once accused Trump of being a racist.
On Monday, however, she assured all Americans that they’re welcome in Trump’s Republican Party: ‘Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay or straight.’
Jones warned that Rose’s message was designed to appeal to young voters disillusioned with Democrats.
‘She’s way more famous than any of us up here — I’m going to tell you that — way more famous,’ Jones told his fellow CNN panelists.
‘To the extent that [Republicans] are trying to bust up our [Democratic] coalition, that was a bunker buster right there,’ he concluded.
And the OnlyFans star is not the first celebrity with wide appeal to rally behind Trump, especially since the failed assassination of the former president at a Pennsylvania political rally on Saturday.
DailyMail.com has compiled a list of all the A-Listers rallying to Donald Trump and those ditching Joe Biden.
Celebrities joining Team Trump
In 2016, Amber Rose pledged to raise her son with rapper Wiz Khalifa to be a ‘male feminist.’
Later that year, Rose called Trump a ‘f***ing idiot’ during an interview with the magazine The Cut and said she ‘really hopes [Trump’s] not president.’
But as the 2024 election approaches, she has changed her tune.
In May, she shared a picture of herself on social media alongside Trump and former First Lady Melania with the caption ‘Trump 2024.’
Multibillionaire Twitter CEO Elon Musk, voted for Biden in 2020, but he officially endorsed Trump last week.
‘I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery,’ he tweeted following Saturday’s assassination attempt.
Musk will also reportedly commit $45 million a month to a super political-action committee backing the former president.
Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, known professionally as the rapper 50 Cent, has also suggested he’s now in Trump’s corner.
In February, the 49-year-old New York rapper said that ‘maybe Trump is the answer’ after New York Democrat’s announced plans to spend millions of dollars on prepaid credit cards for illegal immigrants flooding the city.
After Saturday’s shooting, 50 Cent’s 2003 hit song ‘Many Men (Death Wish)’ went viral on social media. The track recounts how the 50 Cent was shot nine times in a drive-by shooting in 2000 and survived.
50 Cent responded to the new surge in attention by tweeting an image of Trump’s head super-imposed on 50 Cent’s body.
The singer denied speculation that he will speak at the RNC convention.
Musicians for Trump
Robert James Ritchie, better known as Kid Rock, is famous for his hip hop-country rock blend, and in recent years he has become a champion of the Trump brand.
Kid Rock first endorsed Trump in 2016 and sold merchandise, including T-shirts displaying a map of America with states that had voted for Biden labeled as ‘Dumbf***istan’.
Waka Flocka is another musician who has been outspoken in support of the Donald.
The Atlanta-based rapper once ordered pro-Biden concert-goers to leave his show.
‘All my Joe Biden voters, get out. We going to see ya’ll at the bingo game,’ he told a Salt Lake City audience in July.
Singer and song-writer, Azealia Banks is another vocal Trump supporter.
Despite backing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the Republican presidential primary, Banks is now supporting Trump and she was spotted at his campaign rally in Doral, Florida in early July.
MAGA diehards
Stephen Baldwin was one of the first Hollywood actors to hop on the Trump train, endorsing the 2016 campaign.
Midnight Cowboy star Jon Voight, the 85-year-old father of Angelina Jolie, has also supported Trump since 2016 and even spoke at the former president’s inauguration in January 2017. He has endorsed Trump once again in 2024.
Actress and comedian Roseanne Barr veered right in her politics in 2016 when Trump announced his candidacy, even though she once attempted to run as the Green Party’s candidate on 2012.
The 71-year-old has frequently has been widely criticized for promoting political conspiracy theories.
Professional boxer and heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, 58, also backed Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential race.
It’s no surprise that Trump has Tyson’s vote, given that the former president rushed to the boxer’s aid in 1992 when Tyson was convicted of rape.
Trump publicly advocated for a lighter punishment than the 10-year-sentence Tyson received after being found guilty of forcing himself upon an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant.
Hollywood abandons Biden
Lifelong Democrat George Clooney, 63, was one of Biden’s biggest Hollywood fundraisers before his shocking about-face earlier last week.
Writing in The New York Times, Clooney said the 81-year-old president can’t win the ‘battle against time,’ called for him to drop out of the 2024 race and slammed Democratic party leaders for ignoring Biden’s declining health.
Additionally, Clooney claimed that he saw clear signs of Biden’s cognitive deterioration while behind the scenes of a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser he co-hosted in June.
Other celebrities were quick to jump on Clooney’s anti-Biden bandwagon with actor Michael Douglas appearing on The View last week to say he was ‘deeply, deeply concerned’ about Biden’s fitness to serve as president.
‘I don’t necessarily worry about today or tomorrow but a year down the line, I worry. I am concerned,’ Douglas said.
Outspoken Trump critic and renowned author Steven King, 76 – of ‘Carrie’ and ‘The Shining’ fame – also urged Biden to abandon his re-election campaign.
‘Joe Biden has been a fine president, but it’s time for him – in the interests of the America he so clearly loves – to announce he will not run for re-election,’ he wrote in a July 8 post on Twitter.
It was a dramatic change of heart for the longtime Democrat, who originally joined the Democratic party in 1970.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, 52, was ahead of the curve in refusing to endorse Biden, announcing on April 5 that he would not be publicly supporting either 2024 candidate.
Despite backing Biden in 2020, Johnson said his goal this year is ‘to bring our country together,’ adding: ‘Like a lot of us out there, not trusting of all politicians, I do trust the American people and whoever they vote for that is my president and who I will support 100%.’
New York rapper, Cardi B, 31, also blazed her own trail, voicing her ‘layers and layers of disappointment’ with Biden’s administration in a May 2024 Rolling Stone interview.
Despite voting for Biden in 2020, she said she withdrew her support over his administration foreign aid spending in Ukraine and Israel.
Cardi B said she thought the money would have been better spent in struggling New York communities. ‘I feel like people got betrayed,’ she said.
That said, the musician’s dissatisfaction with Biden hasn’t pushed her into the arms of Trump and she plans to sit out November’s election.
‘I don’t f*** with both of y’all,’she told Rolling Stone.
Big Money closes the purse
Disney heiress and philanthropist Abigail Disney also called on President Biden to exit the 2024 presidential race after his dismal performance in the CNN debate.
‘I intend to stop any contributions to the party unless and until they replace Biden at the top of the ticket,’ Disney said in a statement to CNBC last week.
Disney, 64, is a longtime Democratic donor, contributing nearly $2 million to federal Democratic candidates, committees, and groups since 1992, according to The Hill’s analysis of Federal Election Commission contributions.
‘If Biden does not step down, the Democrats will lose,’ she added. ‘Of that, I am absolutely certain. The consequences for the loss will be genuinely dire.’
Apparently, Disney was on to something.
On Friday, the day after Biden held a rambling hour-long news conference at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the largest pro-Biden super PAC in the country reportedly revealed that they too were withholding donations.
Their holdings are roughly $90 million.
Biden’s flailing president campaign is also driving some famous liberals straight into the arms of third-party candidate, Robert F Kennedy Jr.
Running to RFK Jr
‘Clueless’ actress Alicia Silverstone, 47, announced last year that she was endorsing RFK Jr., explaining she had been ‘deeply disappointed with political leadership at every turn.’
The sultry star said she was tired of ‘the division, the lies, the profiteering at the expense of the people and public health,’ and added that she loves RFK Jr’s ‘vision of peace, unity, and justice for all.’
Last fall, Pierce Brosnan, 71, posted a photo posing with the Kennedy clan heir at a fundraiser. The pictured was captioned: ‘Two Irishmen at the Kennedy for President fundraiser on Point Dume last night.’
It’s not the first time he’s politically flip-flopped: Brosnan threatened to leave the US if Donald Trump was elected in 2016, but three years into Trump’s administration, he changed his mind, telling The Hill: ‘I think what he’s done for the economy is very good.’
Kevin Spacey, 64, who has faced more than a dozen accusations of sexual misconduct or assault in recent years, endorsed RFK Jr. in May saying: ‘When the world turned his back on me, Bobby leaned in. There’s a lot I can learn from this man.’
It’s a marked change from Spacey’s historic close relationship with the Democrats.
He was friends with former President Bill Clinton and even famously reprised his role in the political thriller House of Cards, to wish the former president a happy birthday in 2014.
Self-described ‘anarchist’ Woody Harrelson appeared to throw his star power behind RFK Jr in May 2023 by sporting a Kennedy 2024 hat.
The ‘True Detective’ actor said: ‘Bobby is a personal friend, I don’t endorse candidates from either party because I’m an anarchist.’ That must have been a joke because Harrelson came narrated a 30-minute long RFK Jr campaign video that was released in May 2024.
Perhaps one of RFK Jr’s strongest supporters is the influential musician, Eric Clapton, who raised $2.2 million for the candidate at a private event held in Brentwood, California in September 2023.
Both Clapton and Kennedy have been outspoken vaccine skeptics, with Clapton going as far as comparing the COVID lockdowns to ‘slavery.’
