‘Haunted by tweets every single day’: Omarosa uses Celebrity Big Brother to dish dirt on Trump White House
Is it going to be OK, asks a fellow contestant? No, it’s not, says former Trump staffer
She never knew what President Donald Trump might say next on Twitter. She wanted to be a calming influence, but other staffers in the White House tried to keep her away from him. She persevered because she felt it was her “call to duty” to be there.
On Thursday night’s episode of Celebrity Big Brother, a tearful Omarosa Manigault Newman opens up to another contestant about her time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – and presents a not-all-flattering portrait of the president she served.
“I was haunted by tweets every single day, like what is he going to tweet next?” Manigault Newman tells television personality Ross Matthews in a clip teased on social media by the official account of the long-running CBS reality show.
Matthews, perhaps best known for his appearances as Ross the Intern on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Manigault Newman are shown lounging on couches in a conversation captured by some of the 87 cameras in the house in which the contestants stay.
A seemingly incredulous Matthews presses Manigault Newman – billed simply as Omarosa on the show – about her service in the White House, where she held the title of director of communications at the Office of Public Liaison for about a year.
“I felt like it was a call to duty,” Manigault Newman tells Matthews. “ I felt like I was serving my country, not serving [Trump].”
Asked whether she did anything to curb all the president’s unpredictable tweets, Manigault Newman explains: “I tried to be that person, and then all of the people around him attacked me. It was like: ‘Keep her away. Don’t give her access. Don’t let her talk to him.’ ”