Trump used the N-word, ex-aide writes in tell-all
U.S. President Donald Trump frequently used the “N-word” while he was the host of the reality television show Celebrity Apprentice and there are tapes that can confirm it, according to a new memoir by one of Trump’s former White House advisers, Omarosa Manigault Newman.
The claims, based on hearsay, are among the more explosive that Manigault Newman makes in the book, Unhinged. It was first reported by the British publication The Guardian, which had an early copy.
Manigault Newman said she never heard Trump use the word herself. But she said that by the time she was fired by White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, she had come to realize that Trump was a “racist.”
“It had finally sunk in that the person I’d thought I’d known so well for so long was actually a racist,” she said in the memoir. “Using the N-word was not just the way he talks but, more disturbing, it was how he thought of me and African Americans as a whole.’’ Manigault Newman worked with Trump on the show as a first-season contestant, and then was an adviser to his campaign and later in the White House.
She was fired in December 2017 after what White House aides said were multiple instances of misconduct.
“Instead of telling the truth about all the good President Trump and his administration are doing to make America safe and prosperous, this book is riddled with lies and false accusations,” White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said in a statement.
In the book, Manigault Newman said that Lara Trump, the wife of Trump’s son Eric — the de facto campaign manager for the next race — called to offer her a $15,000 (U.S.) monthly contract in exchange for her silence on anything negative about the president.
When she was fired, she said she had a “growing realization that Donald Trump was indeed a racist, a bigot and a misogynist.’’
She continued: “My certainty about the N-word tape and his frequent uses of that word were the top of a high mountain of truly appalling things I’d experienced with him, during the last two years in particular.”