Trump mocked as he admits Omarosa Manigault Newman's White House role was 'experiment,' claims he fired her due to unpopularity

WASHINGTON, DC: Former President Donald Trump revealed he hired Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault Newman as a White House aide as an "experiment" and ultimately fired her because everybody "hated" her and she was "late all the time." 

This revelation comes from Variety's Co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh's forthcoming book, 'Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.'

Donald Trump explains why he fired Omarosa Manigault Newman

Trump initially brought Omarosa into his administration as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison shortly before his 2017 inauguration.

Her tenure was cut short in December of the same year, reportedly due to misuse of the White House car service and other inappropriate behavior. However, Trump told Setoodeh that the issues with Omarosa were broader, citing her unpopularity and frequent absences.

"I saw her very little in the White House. The White House is a very big place! It's buildings, actually. But the people hated her in Washington," Trump said. "Her personality - she was late all the time. She wouldn't show up. Look, I tried to rehabilitate her reputation as an experiment."

Trump admitted he anticipated Omarosa's failure, stating, "When she gets fired, you always have to pay a price. It's too bad. In the White House, she didn't cut the mustard," reported Daily Mail.

Despite her previous experience under President Bill Clinton and her notable appearances on The Apprentice, Omarosa's stint in the White House was tumultuous. Trump recounted her rise and fall on The Apprentice, noting that her initial success was due to her authentic unpredictability, which waned in subsequent seasons.

"Omarosa was a major hit in her first year," the 45th president told Setoodeh. "Her anger, her craziness—it just worked so incredibly well." After Trump fired her in March 2004, Omarosa said that she failed the challenge because she suffered a concussion from hitting her head on a small chunk of plaster on set.

Eric Trump found Omarosa's injury excuse laughable, as he told the book author. "Listen, Omarosa played the villain," he said. "We as a company know plaster extremely well. We're builders. A little drop of plaster landed on her shoulder, and she's walking around with ice packs, as if a high beam had dropped off the top of a building and hit her. Do I think she was hurt? No. But that was great entertainment."

Trump agreed, bringing Omarosa back twice on The Apprentice in later seasons. "She was a great television personality the first time. And then I put her on a second time, and she bombed," Trump recalled.

According to Trump, her genuine unpredictability made Omarosa's initial appearance successful. "The first time she was evil. The second time, she tried to be evil. And the third time, she tried even harder. And when you try, it doesn't work. Does that make sense?" he explained.

Despite her later failures, Trump gave Omarosa another chance, this time in public outreach, particularly to African Americans. "I helped her get a job at the White House because she was begging me to help restore her. So I figured, why not? I put her in," Trump said. However, he always anticipated trouble. "I told people when we hired her, 'When we fire her, we'll have nothing but trouble.' But that's OK. That's the way life goes," Trump added.

During his series of interviews with Setoodeh, Trump explained why he hired Omarosa despite her questionable trustworthiness. "A lot of things I do in life, I do as an experiment. I mean, I do it out of human interest—to see who's loyal and who's not loyal. She was actually really great to me, until she left," he noted.

Netizens react to Donald Trump's experimentation with Omarosa's White House stint

A social media user commented, "Trump bragged that he only knew the best people, but he can't admit that he ever made a mistake."

Another added, "'I tried to rehabilitate her reputation as an experiment.' - he speaks like an alien using Google Translate to communicate with us."

A third said, "If she became successful and made a ton of money, Trump would say its because of him. If she's a failure, i barely met her."

"Omarosa is not a likable person. Nothing about her is trustworthy," read a tweet.

"In that case, she was working for the right guy," chimed a user.

"His whole presidency was an experiment. He made a former Exxon ceo secretary of energy," added another. 

"The fact that she secretly recorded while in the war room, says what a Benedict Arnold drama queen she would turn out to be," asserted a user.

"Trump and Omarosa deserved each other. One grifter to another, perfect match," mocked a user.

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