Unhinged_An Insider's Account of the Trump White House by Omarosa Manigault Newman

Author:Omarosa Manigault Newman [Newman, Omarosa Manigault]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2018-08-14T04:00:00+00:00

Part Three

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The White House

Chapter Ten

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The Transition

“Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray,” The New York Times, November 15, 2016

Donald Trump’s first order of business as president-elect was to travel to Washington, DC, and meet with President Obama at the White House to discuss the successful transfer of power. According to the official line on the ninety-minute meeting, it went well. Trump said afterward, “I have great respect [for Obama]. We discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful, and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel.” It was theorized in the press that, since Trump had never worked in government before, he’d rely on Obama for guidance during the transition and beyond.

It was the last time the two men ever discussed anything of substance.

This comes as no surprise to me. Donald has told me that he thinks Obama is a fraud. He questioned his nationality, his citizenship, his scholarship. He’s demanded to see Obama’s birth certificate, his passport, and his Harvard transcripts. In 2011, Trump told the Associated Press, “I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.”

When I would challenge Trump on his erroneous assessment of President Obama, he would say, “Omarosa, you only support him because he’s black! And he hasn’t done anything for the black community, look at his Chicago—it’s a mess, his people are dying and he does nothing!” In Trump’s mind, Obama made up his credentials as a community organizer, and this became a common rant starting in 2007 and continuing to this day. “He’s a fraud. A phoney! Organizer? What is that? They hyped him up and made him out to be some big shot, and he’s not,” he’s said many, many times, over and over, for years. I believe Donald Trump was incapable of believing a black man could be all that Barack Obama is, and he was determined to expose him.

The irony is, Trump himself has greatly inflated his own wealth. He has said that he graduated in the top of his class, which has been proven to be untrue. Trump is the one who has the sketchy bio, and he overcompensates for it by attacking Obama to feed his base.

After the election, the Trump team was fully aware that the election had been contentious, to say the least, and that half the electorate was still reeling from the results. A smooth transition from the Obama administration to Trump’s could go a long way to calming down the jittery public. Between Election Day on November 8 and the inauguration on January 20, there were only seventy-three days to form an entire government. The clock was ticking, and unfortunately for everyone on the Trump train, we were moving at a crawl.

The presidential transition, mandated by law, is a critical time for any incoming administration.

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