Former President Donald Trump said he hired Apprentice star Omarosa as a White House aide as an “experiment” and fired her because everyone “hated” her and she was “late all the time.”
In the next book, Apprentice Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking GlassVariety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh spoke to Trump about Omarosa’s firing at the White House for the first time.
After three seasons on The Apprentice and appearances on the 2016 campaign, Trump announced he would hire the former reality star just weeks before his 2017 inauguration, as assistant to the president and communications director of the Office of Public Liaison.
She lasted until December: she was fired by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly for excessive use of the White House car service. politician reportedand other bad behavior, DailyMail.com chimed in.
Trump told Setoodeh that the problems were even broader.
‘I saw very little of her in the White House. The White House is a very big place! They are actually buildings. But people in Washington hated her,” she said.
‘His personality…he was late all the time. She didn’t appear,’ the former president continued. ‘Look, I tried rehabilitate its reputation as an experiment.
In a forthcoming book about The Apprentice, now-former President Donald Trump (left) talks about the rise and fall of his relationship with Omarosa (right), who appeared on the show three times and was later hired as a House aide White and fired 11. months later
Omarosa is photographed in the White House briefing room in October 2017. Trump said he hired her as an “experiment” and fired her because everyone “hated her” and she was “late all the time.”
‘And when I did, I said, ‘This probably won’t work, but let’s see what happens,'” Trump added. And I also said… “When you get fired, there’s always a price to pay.” It is very bad. In the White House he was not up to par.
Omarosa had previously worked in the White House, under Democratic President Bill Clinton, but entered Trumpworld in 2004 as a contestant on the first season of The Apprentice.
Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh’s book about The Apprentice hits shelves Tuesday
“Omarosa was a huge success in her first year,” Trump told Setoodeh. “The anger of her, the madness of her, worked incredibly well.”
When Trump told her “you’re fired” in March 2004, she told NBC’s Chris Matthews that she had failed the challenge because she suffered a concussion after hitting her head on a small piece of plaster on the set.
Eric Trump thought this excuse was ridiculous, he told the book’s author.
“Listen, Omarosa played the villain,” Trump’s middle son said. ‘We, as a company, know plaster very well. We are builders. A small drop of plaster fell on her shoulder and she walks with bags of ice, as if a tall beam had fallen from the top of a building and hit her. Do I think she was hurt? No. But that was great entertainment.
The future president thought so too and brought Omarosa twice to The Apprentice in later seasons.
‘She was a great TV personality the first time around. And then she put it on him a second time and it failed,” Trump recalled.
What was so successful the first time, Trump told Setoodeh, was that Omarosa “didn’t know how big her arc was going to be,” the author wrote.
“The first time she was evil,” Trump said. ‘The second time, she tried to be evil. And the third time she tried even harder. And when you try, it doesn’t work. Makes sense?’ the former president asked.
Although it failed, Trump decided to give it another chance: doing public outreach, especially among African Americans.
And then I helped her get a job at the White House because she was begging me to help her restore it. So I thought, why not? “I put it up,” Trump continued.
The then-president-elect said he always sensed trouble coming.
“I told people when we hired her, ‘When we fire her, we’ll have nothing but problems.’
‘But that’s okay. “That’s life,” Trump added.
Setoodeh asked Trump during his series of six interviews, all conducted after President Joe Biden was in office, why he would bring Omarosa to the White House if she couldn’t be trusted.
“A lot of the things I do in life I do as an experiment,” Trump responded. “I mean, I do it out of human interest, just to see who’s loyal and who’s not.”
“She was really great to me, until she left,” he added.
Then, Republican candidate Donald Trump (left) whispers to Omarosa (right), a three-time alum of his reality show The Apprentice, as they appear together at a campaign event in Detroit, Michigan, in September 2016.
Omarosa (right) appears in the White House briefing room in February 2017, a month into the Trump administration, alongside counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway (left) and communications director Hope Hicks (center). strategic.
News reports at the time of her firing said Omarosa was escorted off the White House grounds when she attempted to enter the residence to plead her case to the president, a story she denies.
While some other former Trump aides have returned to the fold, that has not been the case for Omarosa.
Trump is still angry about Omarosa’s revelation in 2018: Unhinged: An Inside Account of the Trump White House.
And then when he left, he got a book deal and made some money. Everyone could do that. But when they do it, they are bastards,” said the presumptive Republican candidate. —I guess they don’t pay if you say nice things.
“I heard he lost that money,” Trump then alleged, without evidence.
‘I don’t know, something happened. She also had all this with her husband,” the former president also stated. ‘And the family. “It was always drama.”
Omarosa’s publicist did not respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.
Other attempts to contact the former White House aide were unsuccessful.
