Omarosa: 'I was haunted by tweets every single day'

This headline quotes former communications director Omarosa Manigault, offering chilling insight into her time at the Trump White House. She also commented, when asked whether we as a country should be worried, that it was "not going to be OK".  All this would be concerning and newsworthy, especially coming from someone who was once so close to the President, but the most astonishing thing about it is the venue: an episode of Celebrity Big Brother. 

Omarosa started her "career" as a Contestant on The Apprentice which President Trump was obviously the host of. As someone who watches a lot of reality TV, there are certain terms you are familiar with. One is "going for the villain edit", or, being more mean and conniving in confessionals and thereby ensuring more screen time and long lasting infamy. On The Apprentice, Omarosa was a prototypical, and incredibly successful, example of this strategy. Normally, this would mean getting more twitter followers, and maybe a spinoff.  In our current political climate, having good strategy in  a tv competition could land you a major position in the white house. 

This TV to White House pipeline also apparently continues after one has been "fired", as it were. Omarosa is apparently "working the circuit" like any good reality TV personality, and has moved on to Celebrity Big Brother. The person grilling her for these answers was RuPaul's Drag Race judge Ross Matthews.

I feel like we have been building to this over the centuries, with the creation of the first modern celebrity with Charles Lindbergh, the election of movie star Ronald Reagan, and, finally, a true celebrity government, led by people who are simply famous for being famous. When it gets to the point that white house staffers are watching big brother live feeds to put out preliminary press releases, I think it's time to stop.