Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman on Wednesday questioned President Donald Trump's habit of announcing policies on Twitter.
On "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Wednesday night, the former "Celebrity Big Brother" contestant was asked about some of her comments to fellow contestant Ross Mathews, specifically her saying that things are "gonna not be OK" under Trump, and that she "was haunted by tweets every single day."
Trump "announced major policy issues on Twitter," Manigault-Newman said. "The transgender ban, for instance, was announced on Twitter. You want to find out in a policy briefing from the director of domestic policy about those issues and the subsequent follow-up for it, not on Twitter."
She said, "that's not a place you want to find out at 5:00 in the morning about something that would impact so many people's lives."
Manigault-Newman also addressed another "Big Brother" controversy: her comparing leaving the White House to being "emancipated" and "freed off of a plantation."
"The White House that I worked in, that Trump administration, was, it was troubling," she said. "And it was very difficult. And my analogy of it being a plantation, meaning an ecosystem of work where people feel oppressed, is pretty clear. When you aren't allowed to do the job you were brought to do — to help be a change agent; to help be the liaison for communities that needed that assistance. That's where that oppression comes from, and that's what that analogy meant."
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