Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the former reality star turned White House adviser turned reality star, also said she was “haunted” by Trump’s tweets.
Omarosa Manigault-Newman made her debut on the latest season of Celebrity Big Brother Wednesday night, after a highly publicized stint as a senior official in the Trump administration.
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The well-known reality television villain announced her plans to join the show in late January after she exited her post at the White House in December.
In a clip released Thursday, Manigault-Newman is shown chatting with television star Ross Mathews about why she took the job in Washington.
“Can I tell you, as a voter, a citizen, I never got it…why you went to the White House with him,” Mathews said.
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“I felt like it was like a call to duty,” Manigault-Newman responded. “I felt like I was serving my country, not serving him.”
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“I was haunted by tweets every single day,” she continued. “Like, what is he gonna tweet next?”
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“Does anybody say to him, ‘What are you doing?'” an incredulous Mathews asked.
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“Honey, I tried to be that person, and then all of the people around him attacked me,” she said.
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During her stint in the White House, Manigault-Newman’s undefined responsibilities irked some of her colleagues and she reportedly wandered into meetings to which she was not invited. When John Kelly became chief of staff, he tried to limit her unfettered access to President Trump.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
“I’m not there. It’s not my circus, not my monkeys,” she continued. “I’d like to say it’s not my problem but I can’t say that because, like, it’s bad.”
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Mathews then asked how worried Americans should be about what’s going on in the White House.
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Manigault-Newman nodded her head. “No, it’s going to not be okay,” she said. “It’s not.”
“So bad,” she said.
(The full episode airs on Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET, with a two-hour live eviction show on Friday at 8.)
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