Former White House aide Omarosa debuted on CBS’ “Celebrity Big Brother” last night and she did not disappoint, including shots at her former colleagues in the White House.
“A lot of people wanted to stab me in the back,” she said:
“The one thing I learned from politics is that you have to watch your own back and in some cases you have to watch your front, too,” Omarosa Manigault Newman said on CBS' "Celebrity Big Brother." https://t.co/MccrNvsscZ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 8, 2018
Omarosa compares Big Brother to Trump White House: "A lot of people want to stab me in the back" https://t.co/uewcWKoIe2 pic.twitter.com/4LuWjOIx0W
— The Hill (@thehill) February 8, 2018
Well, maybe that’s because she never was on board the Trump Train? Here she is TRASHING her former boss, President Donald Trump.
“I was haunted by tweets every single day. Like what is he going to tweet next?”:
Omarosa on #CelebrityBigBrother says she was "haunted" by @realDonaldTrump's social media use: “I was haunted by tweets every single day. Like what is he going to tweet next?” https://t.co/OYeZc0NSOn
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) February 8, 2018
She also said the U.S. is “not going to be okay” under Trump’s leadership:
Omarosa says she tried to tone down Trump's tweeting, but was "attacked" by other White House staffers. Asked if U.S. will be okay under Trump: "It's not going to be okay."
— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) February 8, 2018
More from The Daily Beast:
“I felt like it was a call to duty,” Manigault says, whispering for some reason despite the plethora of microphones and cameras. “I felt like I was serving my country, not serving him.”
“Like, I was haunted by tweets every single day,” she adds, dramatically. “Like, what is going to tweet next?” Positioning herself as a defender of decency, Manigault says she tried to be the person who would question the president, but everyone around him started “attacking” her instead. She seems to express a degree of jealousy that Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner were able to get closer to the president than she was.
There were lighthearted moments as well, like when fellow contestant James Maslow ask Omaraos who she apprenticed for:
We are all Ross watching in bewilderment and disbelief as James didn't know who Omarosa was/anything about The Apprentice. #BBCeleb #CBBUS
— Andy Herren (@AndyHerren) February 8, 2018
BRILLIANT play by @jamesmaslow pretending not to know The Apprentice when he talked to @OMAROSA was brilliant!!! He got her back for her "who are you" question! #BBCeleb @CBSBigBrother
— Ｊａｃｑｕｅ Ｇｏｎｚａｌｅｓ (@JacqueGonzales) February 8, 2018
And the show did have a fair bit of controversy as a totally random drawing done off camera picked Omarosa as the safe contestant for the week:
Omarosa is safe for the week!!! Shocker ?? #bbceleb #cbbus
— ika wong (@theikawong) February 8, 2018
Omarosa is safe for a week by random draw. WOW CBS, WHAT A SHOCKING TURN OF EVENTS #BBCeleb
— Emily Longeretta (@emilylongeretta) February 8, 2018
I actually have to laugh at how transparently fixed Omarosa being safe for the first week is. #CBBUS
— Kevin O’Keeffe ? (@kevinpokeeffe) February 8, 2018
Ok they're not pretending it's not rigged either. Randomly picking Omarosa's number to keep her safe? Um no you didn't trust these liberals not to remove her and you are protecting your ratings. #CelebrityBigBrother
— Danielle Turchiano (@danielletbd) February 8, 2018
#Omarosa is safe the first week? Is that some BB TV magic? Looks like some BB shenanigans to me. And @ChuckLiddell "I was not impressed with your performance"#UFC #BBCeleb #CBBUS #BBcelebrity #BBCUS
— Jim Vaglica (@JimVaglica) February 8, 2018
Maybe the Russians did it?
At least host Julie Chen admits that Omarosa’s drama is good for ratings:
.@JulieChen on #BBCeleb: "I don't think we would have gotten the media attention that we got if we didn't have Omarosa" https://t.co/p1RAJpaWFa
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 7, 2018
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