Unhinged Quotes

“Michael reminded me of something I once said about the reason I worked at the Trump White House: “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Donald Trump was uncannily intuitive and extremely perceptive. He seemed to be able to sense when certain individuals were susceptible to being influenced by his power and abiding by his loyalty demands—as was seen later with people like his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen, his first campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, and Hope Hicks. His demands increased over time, as did the loyalty of his followers.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I’ve been cast as the villain since my first day on television, and I nurtured that persona because it worked for my Hollywood career. That was fine for a reality TV star. But people didn’t want to see a reality star in the White House—I mean, other than Trump himself. It’s time to tell my story. It’s a good one. No doubt, you’ve come here with prejudice about who you think I am. But all I’m asking is that you hear me out. Part One The Apprentice Years”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“predominantly”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I was low-hanging fruit,”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I’ve escaped from the cult of Trumpworld. I’m free.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“To disarm him, starve his ego: don’t feed into it.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Whether we came in on the Mayflower, through Ellis Island, or on slave ships, we are all in the same boat now.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I believe Melania uses style to punish her husband.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“We would be begging for the days of Trump back if Pence became president.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Donald Trump was the biggest distraction to his own presidency.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“team of neurologists from Boston University that linked Diet Coke consumption with dementia and increased risk of stroke.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“The world has yet to learn about the extent of Donald Trump’s Diet Coke habit.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I believe that Donald Trump is physically ill. His terrible health habits have caught up with him.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Lying is second nature in this administration.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“If you leave or betray the Trump cult, you are labeled crazy and pathetic.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“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.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“When things go south, Trumpworld goes dark. That is their MO.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“I pointed out our history together the last fourteen years, and how well he’d treated me, what he’d done for me professionally,”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“A white participant is given the benefit of the doubt; a black woman in the workplace never is, regardless of the circumstances.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Anyone who would violate his most sacred creed of loyalty would not be forgiven. Being disloyal meant the end—of your job and your reputation.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Because of his poor impulse control, he never paused to evaluate or consider the consequences on a global scale of sending a tweet.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Donald Trump has never read from beginning to end any of the major pieces of legislation, policies, or even some of these executive orders that he has signed.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Pence agreed with everything Trump said or did. In real life, no one beams worshipfully at you all the time like that.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“If every black person quit his or her job because someone in the workplace was racist, not many of us would be employed.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“In Trumpworld, the only defense for most situations was “whataboutism,” mostly about Obama and Clinton.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“our default position was to back up whatever the president said or tweeted, regardless of its accuracy.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“He’d surrounded himself only with elite, wealthy, white, conservative men.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“The first days of the Trump presidency were defined by chaos and conflict,”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

“Nothing has more meaning to Donald than himself.”
― Omarosa Manigault Newman, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House