Trump calls Omarosa ‘a lowlife’ for her book

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — President Donald Trump has one word to describe former White House staffer and fellow reality-TV star Omarosa Manigault Newman: “lowlife.”

Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, “Unhinged,” that Trump used racial slurs on the set of “The Apprentice.” She says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot.

Reporters on Saturday asked Trump at his New Jersey golf course if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: “She’s a lowlife.”

Manigault Newman was a contestant on Trump’s reality show and later served as a senior adviser to the president. In the book, she paints Trump as scattered and self-absorbed.

The book is set for release Tuesday. The White House has already slammed it as “riddled with lies and false accusations.”

In the book, Manigault Newman claims without evidence that tapes exist of Trump using the N-word repeatedly on the reality show’s set. She acknowledges she had never seen or heard the tapes but said three unnamed sources had described their contents.

She alleges Trump exhibits signs of a mental decline and says she went as far as printing out a study linking Diet Coke consumption to dementia and strokes and putting it in his briefing stack.

Manigault Newman alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence, offering her $15,000 a month to work on the 2020 campaign.