Like my title says, Stephanie Grisham's book on the same subject, entitled "I'll Take Your Questions Now", is better. Omarosa doesn't seem to know political issues in depth, especially regarding those illegally in the U.S. And she also serves up too heavy a dose of identity politics. I'm sure white people know that they are supposed to hate themselves by now. Yet, I gave her book 3 stars because she does write with a periodic boldness that I like.
In reading Manigault Newman's book, I acknowledged that she has a very biased filter. So, I tried to sift through her book for discernibly less-biased perspectives and find the sentences that resonated. The page numbers refer to my paperback copy.
Like Stephanie Grisham, Omarosa picks up on the pimping undertones Trump has toward his daughter, Ivanka. Omarosa says she "was used to the SICKENING FEELING I had whenever they touched or kissed, or he openly admired her form" (p.126). But, instead of recoiling, Ivanka "uses his obsession with her to her advantage" (p. 126).
I've noted before that Trump did NOT raise Ivanka or his other children--that job fell to his first wife and their mother, Ivana. Normal child-rearing lacks the excitement and interest that someone like Trump gravitates towards. Ivanka, to him, is more likely just like any other woman who is subject to his sexual evaluations, NOT "really" a daughter. It IS so creepy when he sexualizes her appearance in front of audiences in an effort to brand her, his nominal daughter, as a kind of prized prostitute progeny.
And Ivanka sees it and accepts it. So, it is on the administrations Day 69(!) that Ivanka officially becomes Assistant to the President (p 233). Ivanka's gimpy, exploitative husband, Jared, also accepts his father-in-law's lust for his wife, because he assesses all things in terms of what's in it FOR HIM. Jared himself, as Omarosa points out on p. 175, was responsible for Governor Chris Christie's ousting from the campaign because Jared "hadn't forgotten that Christie, as New Jersey's US attorney prosecuted Jared's father, Charles".
Omarosa also notes that Trump, at least as first, was cognizant enough to dislike Jared, thinking Jared was just using Ivanka as a "beard" to hide his closet homosexuality behind. But, of course, Trump doesn't put it that way, instead saying that he thought Jared "seems a little sweet" (p.178).
Now, onto Omarosa's biased perspective. Her bias is spelled out for the readers on p. 210. She views herself to "be the voice of my community and women of color in the White House". Her use of "my community" here is NOT all Americans, but black Americans only. Fine. But, as a mixed woman myself (and Obama was mixed, quite to the contrary to her, and many others, rampant depiction of him as solely a black man), I recognize the filter of identity politics from a mile away.
Furthermore, the black "community", or any other race-based "community", is far from a monolith, which Omarosa herself is forced to acknowledge by how this "community" treats her. On p. 168, she writes: "I was called every single racial slur in the book that you could direct towards an African American by African Americans".
Race-based "communities" are far from homogenous, with intra-race differences equaling, if not surpassing, inter-race ones. On p. 263, Omarosa reaches out repeatedly to the Congressional Black Caucus, only to have her hand "slapped down again and again" (p. 263). She has entered the territory of not being the "right kind of black" for their politics.
Omarosa's lack of knowledge about political issues is probably most obvious when she writes about the hot-button issue of those illegally in the U.S. On p. 215, she delivers ignorance when she writes disparagingly about "the tactic of separating children from their parents at the border if they tried to enter the country illegally". This "tactic" has to be done--these "parents" could be sex traffickers and previous administrations have done this, including Obama's.
Furthermore, as a sovereign country, we have to move past the notion that the mere mention of the word "children" means all focus is lost. Manipulative foreigners know this--that's why they are always sounding off about "children" and "separating families". And, if these are really the biological parents, they are most often using their children as pawns to gain a foothold into American sympathies and soil.
The other hot-button issue that Omarosa only has surface-level knowledge, but expounds upon, is abortion. Though she doesn't explicitly say she is pro-abortion ("pro-choice") which I find shady in and of itself, her perspective is transparent, and it lacks knowledge of biology.
She begins by railing against people who oppose abortion on the grounds that it is "destroying human life" (p. 209). I'm sure she is familiar with how black people were also once held to be "not fully human". If zygotes (this is biology, which is not her forte) are not "human" life, then WHAT KIND of life are they--rodent?!
Then Omarosa makes the outlandish statement that opposing abortion makes the administration undo "any hope of connecting with women and minorities" (p. 209). Should I identity-politic clapback and state that I myself am a woman and a minority who does not believe in abortion? I view my body as both my temple and my tank. The notion that women can only connect over wanting to kill our fetuses is absurd.
And, if the issue is NOT really whether human zygotes, embryos, and fetuses are human, but whether they are "life"--then scientifically, the implanted embryo will GROW along an imprinted genetic pathway WITHOUT A LOT OF CONSCIOUS DECISION-MAKING FROM THE MOTHER. So, yes, undoubtedly, it's life. I would have much more respect for abortion proponents if they simply stopped playing semantics and acknowledged that this is a human life that they want to end because the pregnant woman's life matters more to them.
Here's one topic that Omarosa SHOULD have expounded upon, as should any book about this subject: Why did so many Americans vote for Trump? A "Joe Schmoe" average guy Donald Trump is NOT. And he is even less of a Bible Thumper. The fact that a widely perceived political novice could harness the hope of millions of Americans speaks to widespread disappointment and disillusionment with the current corrupt state of affairs that many are desperate to have come to an end.
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