Trump feuds with former ‘apprentice’ Omarosa in White House drama fit for reality TV

Donald Trump has taken time out of his busy presidential schedule to tweet insults at ex-White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, amid a rapidly-escalating feud between the two estranged reality television prima donnas.

“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,” Trump tweeted on Monday. “People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work.”

The tweet comes hours after Newman, who starred in Trump’s reality television series “The Apprentice” before joining the White House, told NBC’s “Today” show that Trump was a puppet who was unfit to hold the nation’s highest office.

When asked by Today host Savannah Guthrie if she thought Trump had the mental faculties needed to be president, Newman answered: “No, I don’t think he’s fit." She added that White House Chief of Staff John Kelly – who allegedly fired her without Trump’s knowledge – was “running” the White House while Trump remained clueless about daily operations. “He’s being puppeted, and that’s very dangerous for this nation,” Newman said.

In an audio recording provided by Newman, Trump appears to be unaware that the former combative “Apprentice” contestant had been fired.

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“Omarosa? Omarosa what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?” Trump says in the recording, which Newman claims was made a day after she lost her job at the White House in December 2017.

After Newman tells the president that Kelly had fired her, Trump insists that nobody ever told him about it, adding: “You know they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it. I didn’t know that. I don’t love you leaving at all.”

Her appearance on the morning program is part of a press tour for her new book, "Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House.” In it, Newman accuses Trump of regularly dropping N-bombs during tapings of the “The Apprentice.” She also claims she was offered hush money in exchange for her silence about her tenure at the White House.

When asked over the weekend by a report if he felt betrayed by Newman, Trump shot back: “Lowlife. She’s a lowlife.”

Newman made waves in the media after releasing a secret audio recording of Kelly firing her during a meeting inside the Situation Room – a secure conference room in the White House basement billed as impervious to surveillance.

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