Omarosa Manigault Newman has never been one to shy away from controversy or telling us
exactly what she believes. The well-known Apprentice contestant and former political
aide to President Donald Trump has made quite a name for herself as a controversial media
figure. In her 2018 book, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House, she dished
on the ins-and-outs of her experience with Trump in the White House, as well as the president's
personal life.
But Trump's legal team didn't care for the book - in fact, they tried to prevent its
publication. In October of 2020, the Trump Administration even went so far as to suggest
that Omarosa use her own money to cover the cost of an almost $1 million ad campaign as
a "corrective" remedy for her criticism of the president in her book and during television
interviews. So, Omarosa is no stranger to spilling Trump tea.
And she's about to make the Trump administration unhappy again. In a recent October interview
on the British morning talk show, Lorraine, she touched on something a little more personal:
Trump's marriage to Melania, and the point-of-view she established during the 17 years she's
known the couple. She says that some of what she observed would, quote, "make your head
spin."
It doesn't take an insider to deduce that the relationship between Trump and Melania
has appeared to be a bit prickly. Melania has been seen on several separate occasions
slapping or ripping her hand away from her husband, clearly disinterested in engaging
in physical touch with him. Omarosa's comments on their marriage echo this body language,
confessing what many already suspected was true. The former aide told Lorraine,
"It's a very strange marriage, and I'm very cautious to comment on the dynamics of people's
marriage - you never know the inner-workings - but I've known this couple since they were
dating. In fact, they got married a year after The Apprentice aired, and what I've observed
in the last 17 years would make your head spin a bit."
Omarosa continued, commenting on the obvious tension between the two at the most recent
presidential debate,
"Sometimes they like each other and other times she's repulsed by him, as we saw just
on the debate last Thursday, he went to go and touch her hand and she smacked it away."
Omarosa happily assumed the "villain" role back in 2004 while she was on Trump's show,
The Apprentice. The reality show served as an emphatic introduction to the world of exactly
who Omarosa is, and that she was clearly not someone to be messed with. In 2018, Kyle Swenson
wrote in the Washington Post,
"Millions of viewers had come to expect theatricality from Manigault Newman, the once-nobody-turned-reality-television
villain who used her infamy in Trump's boardroom to jump into the highest rungs of American
pop culture."
"Omarosa has a huge issue with power, and us not accepting her ideas. With Omarosa,
it's either her way, or it's no way."
Omarosa is allegedly a very difficult person to work with, according to a 2004 People magazine
report on that topic, which quoted one former colleague calling her "disruptive," while
another reportedly, quote, "wanted to slug her."
It can't come as too much of a surprise that Omarosa doesn't think fondly of Trump, and
he has never had many nice things to say about her, either. Trump has been very publicly
dismissive and rude towards Omarosa, calling her a "dog" with "zero credibility", "wacky",
"deranged", and a "crazy lowlife."
It appears, however, that Omarosa used to be friends with Trump during their Apprentice
days. But she believes he is no longer the same person he was back then. In 2018, she
told The Hill he had become, quote, "a monster," adding,
"Donald Trump is that friend that got a new job and became something else. The things
that Donald Trump has done. The way he toys with race. The way he's trying to incite a
race war. It is not funny."
Unsurprisingly, Omarosa has no intention of voting for Trump in the upcoming election.
She said on Lorraine that she believes Biden will win, and she supports his candidacy.
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