Say what you want, but the reality TV late-night heart-to-heart is a more dramatic vehicle to air White House laundry than even the juiciest tell-all book — and it seems especially appropriate for a president who reinvented himself as a reality TV star. On Thursday, Celebrity Big Brother teased its season premiere with a clip of former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman discussing her time in President Trump's administration. As she explained it to fellow contestant Ross Mathews, it sounds pretty dark.
"I was haunted by tweets every single day — like, what is he going to tweet next?” Omarosa said. She described her decision to join Trump in the White House as an act of civic duty, and said she doesn't know if anyone can restrain Trump's Twitter fingers or other impulses. "It's not my circus, not my monkeys — you know, I'd like to say not my problem, but I can't say that because, like, it's bad," Omarosa said. Mathews asked if we should be worried, and a tearful Omarosa nodded. "It's going to not be okay," she said. "It's not. It's so bad."
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