The first time I ever saw Omarosa Manigault Newman while watching The Apprentice in 2004, I hoped it would be the last. The show made me cringe, and the host seemed sort of tacky, sort of mean, and not as funny as everyone else apparently thought. Unfortunately, the television villain — Omarosa, I mean — remained a mainstay of the carousel of D-list reality stars.
Then we elected a reality television president and with him came his coterie of clowns and criminals. Omarosa, Michael Cohen, Steve Bannon, Cory Lewandowski, Sebastian Gorka, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis. At least half of their ilk have already transformed into professional President Trump-haters.
Omarosa’s latest appearance on MSNBC featured her trash-talking the daughter of the man who made her famous.
.@OMAROSA on Ivanka’s future in politics: “She does not have what it takes … moveover it will be very difficult for her to run from prison” pic.twitter.com/I1xLQnw3Kg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) January 16, 2021
This is … gross. After President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the press will still have to cover unsavory Trump sycophants and haters in Congress. But they also have a duty to ignore Omarosa and the other clowns exclusive to Trump’s world.
Cohen, who literally went to jail for lying to Congress, has been fully welcomed into the #Resistance, hosting blue-wave wackos such as Soledad O’Brien, Alyssa Milano, and Rick Wilson on a podcast that literally nobody asked for. Miles Taylor, the former hack Trump DHS official, got hired by CNN even after his complicity in the kids-in-cages crisis the media had compared to the Holocaust. He even got to keep his gig after lying to CNN about authoring the “Anonymous” New York Times piece.
Basically, the same media that gave Trump a billion dollars in free publicity in 2015 is now elevating every bitter ex-Trumpite. Absent a sudden increase in journalistic responsibility, we could be looking at dozens of Trumpy denizens on cable by springtime, because eventually, Trump turns on everyone.
Please, no more. This conservative wants our movement to convict Trump so we can move on, rebuild, and provide the nation a presidential candidate who won’t let five Americans die because he was “delighted” watching his followers try to overturn a democratic election. It can be done, but only if the media let us.
