Trump Calls Omarosa 'that dog'
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Trump calls Omarosa 'that dog'
Dylan Stableford 1 hour 52 minutes ago President Trump on Tuesday continued to lash out at Omarosa Manigault Newman over explosive claims his former “Celebrity Apprentice” co-star turned White House aide makes about him in her new book, “ Unhinged .”
“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out,” Trump tweeted . “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”
Donald Trump, Omarosa Manigault Newman. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Carlos Barria/Reuters, Zach Pagano/NBC via AP, AP)
Trump has a history of using the phrase “like a dog” to disparage people , especially those who are fired. But several observers noted that in recent weeks, Trump has used racially charged rhetoric in responding to prominent African-American critics.
This iframe is not allowedTrump seemed frustrated by secret recordings of conversations Manigault Newman made while she was employed at the White House, including one of a call she had with him the day after she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly.
In a recording of their conversation, Trump appeared unaware Manigault Newman had been fired.
“I didn’t know that,” Trump says after she informs him of her termination. “Goddamn it.”
In a series of tweets on Monday , Trump claimed that Manigault Newman begged him for a position in his administration, and that he gave her a job despite how disliked she was.
“Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time,” the president tweeted. “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 really bad things,” he added. “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!”
Omarosa Manigault walks past President Trump during a meeting at the White House, March 12, 2017. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
On Monday night, Trump responded to another claim that Manigault Newman heard a tape of Trump using the N word on the NBC reality show, and that several Trump advisers had discussed the alleged recording during the 2016 campaign. According to the president, Mark Burnett, the show’s executive producer, had called him to refute the story.
“.@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa,” Trump wrote . “I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up.”
“Look at her MANY recent quotes saying such wonderful and powerful things about me — a true Champion of Civil Rights — until she got fired,” the president continued. “Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn’t want interviews) when she worked in the White House. Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News!”
Appearing on MSNBC Monday night, Manigault Newman said she has “plenty more” recordings and is willing to share them with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team if they call “again.”
She declined to say how many more tapes she’ll make public.
“I don’t know. I’m going to watch to see,” she said. “I’m expecting that they’re going to retaliate and so I’m just going to stand back and wait.”
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People are often destroyed by their own excesses.
Tweeting appeals to Trump because when you hear him talk and try to articulate thoughts in an interview where he has to speak, he is incredibly bad at it. He is one of the most inarticulate national political leaders we have ever seen. On twitter he can say something in chopped, non sequential thoughts and it is not as noticeable as when it is coming out of someone's actual mouth.
But his addiction to twitter will be one of the things that ends up destroying him. He doesnt know when to stop, and with this platform only fingertips away all the time, he will continue with this stupidity and invective until the day he is finally forced from office.
Wow. That's almost as bad as what Spike Lee said about her in 2016:
"Ms. Theresa 'Omarosa' Manigault pic is like this (because) I’m looking at her sideways," Lee captioned the photo. "Trump has named her his 'director of African-American Outreach.' You might know her from Trump’s reality TV show, The Apprentice. Who’s next? Step N’ Fetchit? Aunt Jemina? Uncle Ben? Sleep N’ Eat? Rastus? Lil’ (N-word) Jim? Omarosa gonna give out free Popeye’s Chicken with sides to deliver (the) black vote to Trump? YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF. #blacklivesmatter."