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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 0:42:43 GMT
“Despite the constant negative press covfefe,” Trump tweet, May 31, 2017, 12:06 a.m. The baffling tweets never stopped coming, be they about a ban on transgenders in the military, the Russia witch hunt, Crooked Hillary (still), or fake news. Internally, in my text chains with senior advisers and members of the Trump family, we would react with groans and comments like, “Oh no. Twitter fingers attacks again.” The mysterious “covfefe” tweet was nothing but a typo, we reasoned. He’d meant to write something else and hit “send” by accident. He deleted the tweet, but by then, it was set loose on the world, and the Internet immediately pounced. Three hours later, loving the confusion and mystery around his ham-fingered typo, he tweeted, “Who can figure out the true meaning of ‘covfefe’ Enjoy!” at 3:09 a.m. Now, imagine the president, in his room in the residence, with only his tanning bed for company (Melania sleeps in her own room down the hall), enjoying himself immensely with the chaos and headlines he was creating in the middle of the night about an accidentally sent tweet. He stumped the world with a typo. It was more power than one man should have, and definitely not a man who has the soul of an anarchist. “Soon after, I was in the Oval with Donald and he picked up an article about George Conway’s counterpunch and ranted, “Would you look at this George Conway article? F**king FLIP! Disloyal! Fucking Goo-goo.” I was told later that “Goo-goo” and “FLIP,” an acronym for “f**cking little island people,” are racial slurs for Filipinos. George Conway is half Filipino. I had no idea what he meant when he’d said those words.” Excerpt From Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman This material may be protected by copyright.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 0:43:28 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me.
I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 0:52:55 GMT
“On July 11, Don Jr. released the email chain about his meeting in Trump Tower with the Russian lawyer. When I saw Donald that day, I said, “I’m sorry to hear about Don.” He said, “He is such a f**kup. He screwed up again, but this time, he’s screwing us all, big-time!”
“On July 24, Trump spoke at the annual Boy Scouts Jamboree in West Virginia. Despite the fact that his audience was comprised of thousands of teenagers, Trump decided to ramble on about fake news, the swamp (“Today, I said we ought to change it from the word ‘swamp’ to the word ‘cesspool,’ or perhaps to the word ‘sewer’), repealing Obamacare, a party with “the hottest people in New York,” the stock market, the jobs report, the “incredible night with the maps,” a.k.a., Election Day. He also told the saga of William Levitt of Levittown fame, with this snippet, “He went out and bought a big yacht, and he had a very interesting life. I won’t go any more than that, because you’re Boy Scouts, so I’m not going to tell you what he did. Should I tell you? Should I tell you? You’re Boy Scouts, but you know life. You know life.” The implication was that Levitt’s yacht was a WWII-era version of the Playboy Mansion. Nudge, wink. It wasn’t appropriate content for the event for a few reasons, but mainly, it resounded as sexist and lascivious. Trump thought he’d done a fabulous job with that speech and “was furious about the criticism of it in general and, specifically, that anecdote.
I said, “You have to be aware of whom you’re talking to.”
He said, “[The Scouts] are going to have to man up and grow some hair on their chests. They’re not little boys. They have to man up!” He kept saying “man up!” over and over, for days.”
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Post by rodeomom on Aug 18, 2018 0:55:43 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. On please do! They really are disturbing. But I can't look away.
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 18, 2018 1:01:13 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. On please do! They really are disturbing. But I can't look away. Keep going. I don't want to read the whole book myself, but I like getting an idea of what's in it.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Aug 18, 2018 1:04:40 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. Unfortunately, I can totally picture everything happening as described.
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:05:03 GMT
“When the counterprotesters—anti-fascists known as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, church groups, socialists, and others—showed up, the situation escalated to violence, and some thirty people were injured. At about 1:45 p.m., twenty-year-old James Alex Fields Jr., a neo-Nazi from Ohio, drove into a crowd of protesters, injuring nineteen and killing Heather D. Heyer, a thirty-two-year-old paralegal. A woman was killed on the streets in broad daylight in an American city, by a neo-Nazi. And the police in riot gear had not intervened or put a stop to this. It was unthinkable. I called Bossert again. The protest had been raging for two days already without a comment from the president. Bossert told me that, after Fields drove into the protesters, he had gone into the room where Donald was resting at Bedminster after a round of golf and said, “Sir, you have got to wake up. This has escalated, and we have to deal with it.” While the entire nation was glued to their TVs, outraged and terrified by what they were seeing, desperate for the strong hand of leadership, the president was napping.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:05:43 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. Unfortunately, I can totally picture everything happening as described. I know right?
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:11:21 GMT
“On Monday August 14, Donald issued a statement that condemned violence and said, “Racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.” He mentioned Heather Heyer and the two Virginia State troopers who were killed in a related helicopter crash. For many, the statement was too little, too late and didn’t sound sincere. On Tuesday, August 15, Trump was scheduled to hold a press conference at Trump Tower to announce the rollback of regulations that would be part of his infrastructure bill. I was back in DC, watching the live press event from the White House on TV. As it was conveyed to me by someone who was there, Trump was surprised by how many press people turned up for an infrastructure discussion. He had no idea how explosive the Charlottesville situation had become over the last four days. He had not been properly briefed for the press conference, and when he got off the elevator in Trump Tower, he was faced with hundreds of press organizations from around the world.
“The public fear was real and legitimate. People around the world felt deep terror at the sight of neo-Nazis beating up innocents in front of a church, Klansmen carrying torches, militia brandishing machine guns on the street in open-carry Virginia. These images conjured the worst moments in our collective consciousness about racial atrocities, our nation’s shameful past dragged into the present. A dear friend of mine called me to say, “O, I’m scared for my kids and my community.” I understood why she’d be afraid of white supremacists, but she said, “No, I’m scared of your boss, Trump.” I wanted to tell her not to worry, that I was there, the guardrails were in place. But, for two days, a race war had raged in the open in an American city. Until Charlottesville, I couldn’t allow myself to process how bad things had become, because that would mean confronting things I’d noticed and ignored about Trump all along. My blind spot “was shattered during that press conference, though. I could see with my own eyes that Trump had no idea what people were so upset about. He just did not grasp it. He was disconnected from reality.”
“After reciting his regulations speech, which was a long brag about how great his buildings were, he took questions from the press. He was asked why it’d taken him so long to condemn neo-Nazis and white supremacists. He said it was important to “take it nice and easy,” and that he was waiting until he had all the information. That was BS. I knew he had all the info from Tom Bossert. He had gone dark for twenty-four hours because that is what he and Trumpworld do when faced with complicated issues or crises.
His nonverbals told the story: Trump was waving his hands aggressively, pointing his fingers with hostility. He moved like he was being attacked. A young woman was dead, and he was only thinking about his own discomfort. He said, “How about a couple of infrastructure questions?” He had no concept of the magnitude of Charlottesville and wanted to move on to business as usual. This man did not have one ounce of empathy.”
“He should have instructed the National Guard to go in to establish order and better assist the local government to respond and stop the violence, not stand by and allow it to unfold. He should have calmed the fears of all the Americans who watched images that conjure up one of the darkest period in our history, replayed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. He should have called for a day of mourning, a day of prayer, a national symposium on race. He should have talked about the unity we desperately needed. None of that. He wanted an infrastructure question.
When pressed, Trump mentioned Heather Heyer and said, “Her mother on Twitter thanked me for what I said.” The woman’s life had been destroyed, and he was bragging about a tweet? It was all about him. He had no capacity whatsoever to understand what Heather’s mother was feeling. Trump’s greatest character flaw is his total lack of empathy, which is itself a function of his extreme narcissism.”
“Trump constructs his own reality to make himself look good, even in horrible situations, and then he repeats it over and over again until his distortion becomes the only version he knows. His lies and boasts are only, always, about making him look better, e.g., “Her mother thanked me.” The difference between Trump and world leaders who may be a tad bit narcissistic is that he can’t function unless everything is about him. He has to be at the center of everything. If he’s not in the middle of it, he’ll force himself in the middle. So, it’s not that a young woman died, it’s that her mother liked his tweet.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:13:35 GMT
“The most incendiary remarks were, “I think there’s blame on both sides. If you look at both sides—I think there’s blame on both sides. And I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it, either. And if you reported it accurately, you would”
“say the same. . . . You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides.” When he said those words, I could not believe that he was equivocating, not fully understanding the precarious ticking time bomb he was lobbing. I recognized by his posture and his tone that, if he’d been in private, he would have gone full DTN: “Donald Trump nuclear.” He kept talking and kept digging himself into a deeper hole. Nobody protected Trump from Trump that day. When he challenged the press for not reporting “accurately,” he was saying, “I’m right. You’re wrong. You’re all lying to make me look bad.” It was a terrible example of how flawed Donald’s thinking was. He was unable to see the hurt, pain, and fear his words were inflicting on the nation with his total lack of empathy.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2018 1:14:40 GMT
“I appeased him by saying, “Hey, you did what you had to do.” No one—and I do mean not a single person in the White House—agreed with his decision. But they didn’t dare tell him that. He was so all over the place at that point; anything could trigger fits of rage, and you did not want to be on the receiving end of one of those. He could get very worked up about the leaks. He wasn’t happy about the staff; Ivanka and Jared were urging him to get rid of Reince and Sean. Others were bombarding him with issues he needed to deal with.” Says a lot!!
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:16:23 GMT
“If you leave or betray the Trump cult, you are labeled crazy and pathetic. Trump did not care that he completely contradicted himself after he’d tweeted nice things about his departed senior adviser. He changed his tone only after Bannon appeared to go against the grain. It is a pattern the White House repeats often. Lying is second nature in this administration.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:17:46 GMT
“The distinction I’d made between racial and racist, with regard to Trump, was a deception I had used to convince myself. It would be a while yet before I could see the clear picture on the other side of that wall, but I was getting there. During the campaign, I had justified his rhetoric as just political—what he resorted to in order to connect with and stir up the base. But seeing his policies and pardons, I couldn’t justify his actions anymore. It hurt to see the truth about him. Imagine if you had a mentor, a friend, someone you looked up to for nearly fifteen years, someone you sacrificed a lot to stand by under fire, who suddenly revealed himself to be your worst nightmare. I didn’t want to believe it. I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer.”
“I wanted to leave the White House, Trumpworld, and Washington DC.”
“On the last day of that long, horrible month, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin refused to commit to the Obama-era initiative to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, replacing Andrew Jackson. His excuse was flimsy: “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment,” he told CNBC. I know Trump wanted to dismantle Obama’s legacy, but this, too? I quickly wrote a decision memo about the matter and gave it to Trump. While flipping through the folder, he came to the picture of Tubman, the woman who personally brought more than three hundred slaves to freedom, risking her own life every time, and said to me,
“You want to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?”
Just hold on until the conference is over, I told myself. Just get through September, and then I’ll be free.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:23:50 GMT
“And then there was Maria. It hit Puerto Rico on September 20. Trump did not visit the US territory until October 3, two weeks later”
“When Trump and Melania finally visited the island, they went to a relief distribution center near San Juan, the Calvary Chapel. He famously threw rolls of paper towels at the devastated victims who’d lost homes and didn’t have enough food or water. He defended that cavalier behavior in the face of human tragedy by telling Mike Huckabee on his Trinity Broadcasting show, “They had these beautiful, soft towels. Very good towels. And I came in, and there was a crowd of a lot of people. And they were screaming, and they were loving everything. I was having fun; they were having fun. They said, ‘Throw ’em to me! Throw ’em to me, Mr. President!’ So, the next day they said, ‘Oh, it was so disrespectful to the people.’ It was just a made-up thing. And also when I walked in the cheering was incredible.”
Just like Charlottesville, it was all about him.
The devastated people loved him! He was unfairly persecuted by the media. Everyone was having a great ol’ time! His total lack of empathy is bad enough, but I believe many of the problems and delays with getting aid to Puerto Rico were partly political. “The mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, was openly critical of the US response. I would not put it past Trump to punish the people of Puerto Rico to teach that woman of color a lesson.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:27:20 GMT
“White House HBCU Conference Still On Despite Calls to Cancel Event,” Associated Press, August 25, 2017”
“In the wake of Charlottesville, there were calls by the CBC and other groups to cancel the HBCU conference. I immediately pushed back against these critics and continued to plan. This conference had taken place every year for twenty years. It was a campaign promise of Trump’s and was mandated by the executive order he’d signed back in February. The students who had been selected to serve as HBCU all-stars were excited about making the trip to DC; I truly did not want to let down the fifteen hundred participants who were registered, especially the one hundred student representatives. The number one driver for cancellation was none other than Secretary Betsy DeVos. Perhaps she was still reeling from being booed at Bethune-Cookman’s commencement, and wasn’t inclined to support the historic event. Not surprisingly, she went to John Kelly and asked him to force me to cancel it.”
“I was summoned to his office and told that he had something very serious to discuss. He used his best ramrod-straight military posture to intimidate me and said, “Secretary DeVos does not want to go forward with the event. So I’m going to shut it down.” I didn’t flinch. “We cannot cancel the event because of her. We can’t let the students down.” I laid out my case and told him that it was a White House event, that she would not have to be involved if she didn’t want to, and that the event should still move forward. He said he would allow me to proceed but that if it failed, I would own it solely. I heard from a member of the HBCU staff that DeVos was livid that the event was moving forward. A week after my meeting with General Kelly, Betsy DeVos tried to shut down the event by sending out a blast notice that it was off, and then she canceled the contract with the conference’s hotel. By doing so, she cost the US government $75,000 in cancellation fees. She did not care! I was angry and upset but did not let her “actions destroy what I had worked for.”
“Right on the heels of that success, though, came bad news. Keith Schiller, Trump’s bodyguard and friend of many years, left at the end of September. I knew that without Keith, the president would probably become unhinged. I spoke with my husband and a few friends, and we all agreed the best time for me to leave would be in January—what is known as the “one-year anniversary exodus”—when many staffers leave their White House positions. It would give me more time to find a possible replacement for African American outreach.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:37:57 GMT
“I believe that Donald Trump is physically ill. His terrible health habits have caught up with him. His refusal to exercise (except golf). His addiction to Big Macs and fried chicken. His daily tanning bed sessions (he prefers to do it in the morning, so he “looks good” all day). Donald might brag about his superior genes, but even they can’t stand up to what he puts his body through.
He is clearly obese. During the first season of The Apprentice, he was tall and svelte. In the ensuing seasons, Donald expanded slowly but surely. In 2007, he didn’t have a belly yet or the jowl. By 2012, he’d probably put on thirty pounds eating a junk-food-only diet. His preference for steak well done with ketchup has offended many chefs all over the world. The world has yet to learn about the extent of Donald Trump’s Diet Coke habit. He always had one in his hand, as far back as I’ve known him. He’s up to eight cans a day, at least. Eight cans a day, for the last fifteen years, is 43,800 cans of Diet Coke, poured into his system. In the White House, he just “pushes a button in a wooden box on his desk. He can summon anything with that button. Whenever I went in to brief him, he’d push the button and get us Diet Cokes.” “I researched it, and found a brand-new study by a team of neurologists from Boston University that linked Diet Coke consumption with dementia and increased risk of stroke.
Dementia. Not being able to remember anything, confusion, loss of vocabulary and ability to process information. Stroke. Those awkward shaking hands, struggling to bring a bottle of water to his mouth . . . I printed out the study and put it in his stack. He never read it. Rob Porter did, and he gave me a warning. After a senior staff meeting, he said, “Stop putting articles in the president’s folder. You have to go through me first. Don’t do it again.” It was just like the time I had tried to talk to people at the White House about his cognitive issues. No one wanted to hear it, let alone document it. If Dr. Jackson knew what was really going on with Trump’s brain and body, he did not disclose it to anyone.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:41:16 GMT
“THROUGHOUT THE FALL, with all this insanity going on around me, I was miserable at the White House. Morale was at an all-time low, and the environment was toxic. I realized that Donald Trump was the biggest distraction to his own presidency. Donald Trump, the individual, the person, because of who he is and what he stands for and how he operates, would always be the biggest hindrance for us. Donald Trump, who would attack civil rights icons and professional athletes, who would go after grieving black widows, who would say there were good people on both sides, who endorsed an accused child molester; Donald Trump, and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the country. I could no longer be a part of this madness. So, on that wintry day in December 2017, days before Christmas, what General Kelly did when he summoned me into the Situation Room—although morally bankrupt, factually wrong, and downright slimy—had a silver lining. As he executed his plan to expedite my departure from the White House that Tuesday evening, it was as if a hypnotist’s assistant had snapped his fingers and the hypnosis was now over. For the first time “in nearly fifteen years, I would be free from the cult of Trumpworld.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:45:15 GMT
A day After she was fired...
“I heard from Lara and Eric. During this call, Lara expressed love and concern from the whole family—“You know how much we love you, how much DJT loves you”—and offered me a position in the reelection campaign, as I’ve mentioned earlier. I stalled. I had no intention of joining, but I wanted to see what they’d send me.”
“Lara and I discussed my plans for the holidays and when we could finalize. I told her that I’d be going to Florida for Christmas, and we could talk after that. “I read that New York Times article,” she blurted. She was referring to the article I mentioned back in the Introduction, the one by Katie Rogers and Maggie Haberman that said I had “a story to tell.” I hadn’t seen it; I was busy recovering from foot surgery and the media attacks, and was fielding a number of offers from television, radio, and print. I said, “What article?” “It was on the front page, the one they wrote about you. That’s not something to tell people about. If you come on board, we can’t have you talking about that stuff . . . everything is positive, right? Why don’t we chat on Monday?” That’s not something to tell people about . . . We can’t have you talking about stuff . . .
Did she mean nearly fifteen years of Donald Trump’s crazy antics that I had witnessed? Because there was a lot.
Within twenty-four hours, Lara sent me a contract to work on the 2020 campaign for $15,000 per month, the same salary that I’d received at the White House. The NDA attached to the email was as harsh and restrictive as any I’d seen in all my years of television. It said that I was forbidden from ever talking about the entire Trump family or the entire Pence family, to anyone in the universe, for all of eternity.
I declined the offer. I was done with Trumpworld
However, they were not done yet with me. Two days later, I got a flurry of letters from attorneys representing the president of the United States imploring me to stay silent about Trump, or else.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:51:38 GMT
“One person who knows better than anyone just how broken and flawed Donald Trump is? Melania. She’s been trying to tell the world all this time, and on June 22, 2018, she took her sartorial rebellion to the next level, by wearing a Zara jacket with the worlds I DON’T REALLY CARE. DO U? printed on the back, while on her way to visit detained immigrant children at a Texas border facility in the wake of the controversy” “Only Melania knows for sure what she was trying to convey, but I have a theory that no one else picked up on.”
“Melania’s style rebellions throughout the campaign and Trump presidency have been intentionally misleading. As a student of fashion and a keenly image-conscious woman, she knows that every one of her style choices will be scrutinized and debated. Why did she wear a Gucci “pussy bow” pink blouse to the presidential debate immediately after the Access Hollywood bombshell? Did she purposefully wear a Hillary Clinton–esque white pantsuit to Trump’s first State of the Union address? Did she mean to come off as out of touch and tone-deaf by wearing snakeskin stiletto heels to hurricane-ravaged Texas? The messages behind her style choices aren’t always clear, but they are never accidental. Taken as a whole, all of her style rebellions have served the same purpose, and not only misdirection and distraction—strategies her husband knows all too well. I believe Melania uses style to punish her husband.”
“It’s my opinion that Melania was forced to go to the border that day in June, essentially, to mop up her husband’s mess. She wore that jacket to hurt Trump, setting off a controversy that he would have to fix, prolonging the conversation about the administration’s insensitivity, ruining the trip itself, and trying to make sure that no one asked her to do something like that again. Not that Melania doesn’t have compassion for immigrant children; I’m sure she does. But she gladly, spitefully, wrecked her husband’s directives to make him look foolish. It was often discussed among Trumpworld intimates that Donald had something to do with Melania’s obtaining a rare Einstein Visa, a.k.a. an EB-1, that gives immigrants with “extraordinary ability” or “sustained national and international acclaim” US citizenship. Many have questioned her qualifications for receiving this visa, and have speculated that Trump was able to use his networks and resources to secure it or expedite it. Since Donald is fully aware of however she acquired her permanent citizenship, he could, if there were anything fishy around it, expose the methods and somehow invalidate it. He is a vindictive man, and I would not put anything past him. “If Melania were to try to pull the ultimate humiliation and leave him while he’s in office, he would find a way to punish her. This is a man who has said he could pardon himself from the Mueller investigation. Why not pardon himself over an alleged visa payoff? In my opinion, Melania is counting every minute until he is out of office and she can divorce him.”
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:54:08 GMT
“Right now, I believe we are in a deep valley, and I acknowledge my role in our being here. I also have faith that we will march upward and out of it, very soon. I believe in our country, and I believe in the people of this republic. I believe that we will come through this period recognizing that division for political ends is vapid and empty. Playing upon people’s fears for the sake of legislative expediency is not a sustainable model for a healthy democracy, and, ultimately, we will reject it. We will come to the conclusion that the apparent gains of division pale in comparison to the benefits of unity and the pursuit of the common good. I cling to the indefatigable American spirit of fairness and faith. I’m a patriot and I love my country enough to criticize it when it strays from its better self, but also hold on to the belief that our greatest days are still ahead of us. Change is coming. To bring it about we must be participants and not spectators in the pursuit of equality and unity. Together, we can make this country honor the sacrifices of our ancestors. Whether “we came in on the Mayflower, through Ellis Island, or on slave ships, we are all in the same boat now. Will we survive Trump? Will the presidency ever be the same? Is our democracy safe?”
“The answer is yes! We’ve survived wars, segregation, recessions, terrorist attacks. We will survive this, too. As someone who knows his tricks and has seen the machine from the inside for many years, I have some suggestions on how to do it. All we need to remember is that Trump loves the hate. He thrives on criticism and insults. He delights in chaos and confusion. Taking to Twitter to call him names only fuels him and riles his base. To disarm him, starve his ego: don’t feed into it. Also, the public needs to recognize that not all Trump supporters are the same. While you rail against one policy of his or another, you may not know you are speaking to a closet Trumplican. As I traveled the country, the most unsuspecting people whispered to me that they voted for him. People of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, races, religions. It’s dangerous to group all his voters into one box and insult them, when you could be listening to them and understanding their point of view, and finding common ground instead. Rest assured that there is an army of people who oppose him and his policies. They are working silently “and tirelessly to make sure he does not cause harm to the republic. Many in this silent army are in his party, his administration, and even in his own family. We are reminded daily that Trump is still in the throes of the Mueller investigation. The special investigators are conducting interviews with subjects who have stories to tell. In early 2018, I, too, received a call from the FBI. We’ll see how that goes. But for me, fifteen years later—through The Apprentice, the campaign, and the White House—I can finally exhale. I’ve escaped from the cult of Trumpworld. I’m free.”
Excerpt From Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman This material may be protected by copyright.
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imsirius
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:54:48 GMT
FIN....
(I am sure some of you are relieved lol)
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imsirius
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Post by imsirius on Aug 18, 2018 1:56:20 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2018 3:06:23 GMT
None of this stuff from her book surprises me. She's just confirming what most of us already thought or suspected.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 18, 2018 3:21:08 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. I’m glad you’re posting them. I’m beginning to have some hope.
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Post by flute4peace on Aug 18, 2018 3:31:31 GMT
“The distinction I’d made between racial and racist, with regard to Trump, was a deception I had used to convince myself. It would be a while yet before I could see the clear picture on the other side of that wall, but I was getting there. During the campaign, I had justified his rhetoric as just political—what he resorted to in order to connect with and stir up the base. But seeing his policies and pardons, I couldn’t justify his actions anymore. It hurt to see the truth about him. Imagine if you had a mentor, a friend, someone you looked up to for nearly fifteen years, someone you sacrificed a lot to stand by under fire, who suddenly revealed himself to be your worst nightmare. I didn’t want to believe it. I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer.” “I wanted to leave the White House, Trumpworld, and Washington DC.” “On the last day of that long, horrible month, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin refused to commit to the Obama-era initiative to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, replacing Andrew Jackson. His excuse was flimsy: “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment,” he told CNBC. I know Trump wanted to dismantle Obama’s legacy, but this, too? I quickly wrote a decision memo about the matter and gave it to Trump. While flipping through the folder, he came to the picture of Tubman, the woman who personally brought more than three hundred slaves to freedom, risking her own life every time, and said to me, “You want to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?” Just hold on until the conference is over, I told myself. Just get through September, and then I’ll be free.” Excerpt From Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman This material may be protected by copyright. This is the most telling excerpt yet. I really hope that her frankness gives others the courage to also speak out. It gives me great glee to think that he may have finally met his match.
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Post by andreasmom on Aug 18, 2018 3:35:12 GMT
If you don't want me to post these..please tell me. I find them hilarious, frightening, and disturbing. I almost want to buy the book but I’d rather read here.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2018 3:50:42 GMT
“The distinction I’d made between racial and racist, with regard to Trump, was a deception I had used to convince myself. It would be a while yet before I could see the clear picture on the other side of that wall, but I was getting there. During the campaign, I had justified his rhetoric as just political—what he resorted to in order to connect with and stir up the base. But seeing his policies and pardons, I couldn’t justify his actions anymore. It hurt to see the truth about him. Imagine if you had a mentor, a friend, someone you looked up to for nearly fifteen years, someone you sacrificed a lot to stand by under fire, who suddenly revealed himself to be your worst nightmare. I didn’t want to believe it. I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer.” “I wanted to leave the White House, Trumpworld, and Washington DC.” “On the last day of that long, horrible month, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin refused to commit to the Obama-era initiative to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, replacing Andrew Jackson. His excuse was flimsy: “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment,” he told CNBC. I know Trump wanted to dismantle Obama’s legacy, but this, too? I quickly wrote a decision memo about the matter and gave it to Trump. While flipping through the folder, he came to the picture of Tubman, the woman who personally brought more than three hundred slaves to freedom, risking her own life every time, and said to me, “You want to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?” Just hold on until the conference is over, I told myself. Just get through September, and then I’ll be free.” Excerpt From Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman This material may be protected by copyright. This is the most telling excerpt yet. I really hope that her frankness gives others the courage to also speak out. It gives me great glee to think that he may have finally met his match. The problem is that his base does NOT have a problem with his attitude!!
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Post by samantha25 on Aug 18, 2018 3:56:09 GMT
This is the most telling excerpt yet. I really hope that her frankness gives others the courage to also speak out. It gives me great glee to think that he may have finally met his match. The problem is that his base does NOT have a problem with his attitude!! or too scared or spineless if they disagree. They will loose their job and income. All about the money......
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 18, 2018 4:50:18 GMT
The problem is that his base does NOT have a problem with his attitude!! or too scared or spineless if they disagree. They will loose their job and income. All about the money...... You are right about Congress is scared or spineless and do not care, but his base voters don't care and will vote for more of the same.
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Post by hop2 on Aug 18, 2018 12:26:13 GMT
“The distinction I’d made between racial and racist, with regard to Trump, was a deception I had used to convince myself. It would be a while yet before I could see the clear picture on the other side of that wall, but I was getting there. During the campaign, I had justified his rhetoric as just political—what he resorted to in order to connect with and stir up the base. But seeing his policies and pardons, I couldn’t justify his actions anymore. It hurt to see the truth about him. Imagine if you had a mentor, a friend, someone you looked up to for nearly fifteen years, someone you sacrificed a lot to stand by under fire, who suddenly revealed himself to be your worst nightmare. I didn’t want to believe it. I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did. I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer.” “I wanted to leave the White House, Trumpworld, and Washington DC.” “On the last day of that long, horrible month, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin refused to commit to the Obama-era initiative to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the twenty-dollar bill, replacing Andrew Jackson. His excuse was flimsy: “It’s not something I’m focused on at the moment,” he told CNBC. I know Trump wanted to dismantle Obama’s legacy, but this, too? I quickly wrote a decision memo about the matter and gave it to Trump. While flipping through the folder, he came to the picture of Tubman, the woman who personally brought more than three hundred slaves to freedom, risking her own life every time, and said to me, “You want to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?” Just hold on until the conference is over, I told myself. Just get through September, and then I’ll be free.” Excerpt From Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman This material may be protected by copyright. This is the most telling excerpt yet. I really hope that her frankness gives others the courage to also speak out. It gives me great glee to think that he may have finally met his match. These excerpts have been spot on about how Trump behaves and has always behaved. While she may or may not have used his exact language ( we may never know ) she did not ‘make up’ anything about how he acts at all. She did not have to. This is how he acts and always has been What surprised me is that Omarosa comes off as more intelligent than I’ve ever given her credit for. But what do I know about the real Omarosa I only know her TV edit. Her character. I understand her statement in the quote above. I know exactly how you deceive yourself about someone and what they really are because you do not want to accept the truth. If this is the real Omarosa I actually think I could like her. But she sticks to that TV personality in interviews. After 15 years of playing that obtuse villain character for Trumpworld I’m not sure she knows which she really is.
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