On Monday, President Donald Trump answered the spate of leaked tapes former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has released in recent days by attacking her intelligence, a common insult he uses against his black critics.
Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
…really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
Manigault Newman has been steadily releasing audio she clandestinely recorded in the West Wing to gin up anticipation for her upcoming memoir, “UNHINGED.” One of those tapes, allegedly recorded in the Situation Room, captures Chief of Staff John Kelly firing Manigault Newman. Another is of Trump expressing his dismay over and ignorance of her dismissal.
Neither Trump’s response not his choice of insult is surprising, as Trump has repeatedly used insults like “low IQ” and “dumb” to label prominent black people he doesn’t like.
Could someone please put the genius back in the stable?
“She was vicious, but not smart.” So in Trump’s world, being vicious is a positive attribute.
“Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time.”
She got fired 3 times on a TV show. I’m not sure if that’s a disqualifying thing for most jobs, but evidently it’s not for a position in the Trump administration … and he personally hired her (maybe he thought, "Here’s an African-american I can tolerate and control?).
“She was vicious, but not smart.”
Well, smart enough to record a bunch of WH conversations.
He SO wants to call her the n-word.
Following tweet is interesting, after he supposedly heard:
Still pretending the firing just sort of happened off in the distance, he barely knew the firing, it had a very small role etc. She was terrible but she said GREAT things about me so I said try to keep her! Then she was fired! Somehow! And that’s the only reason she would say bad things, because she was so gruntled before!