Omarosa Criticizes Trump’s Dance-Filled Town Hall: “He Has Nothing to Say to America”
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Former Trump administration staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, who rose to fame on The Apprentice, criticized her former boss’s recent town hall event, describing it as a bizarre spectacle that revealed Trump’s lack of substance. Appearing on CNN’s The Laura Coates Show on Tuesday, Newman questioned Trump’s ability to engage with Americans meaningfully and called for reporters to ask more specific questions about his health.
At the town hall, Trump answered a few questions before spending more than 40 minutes dancing to music, which Newman found troubling. “It really shows that Donald Trump has nothing to say to America,” she remarked. “He has nothing to offer to America. All he has to offer is weird swaying and dancing. And at a time like this in this nation, we need more than just that. And he cannot deliver.”
Host Laura Coates agreed, pointing out that Trump could have used the opportunity to discuss policy or go on the offensive, but instead, he turned it into an extended dance session. “Instead, I’m doing the Y-M-C-A,” Coates quipped, calling it a “very odd waste of political capital” just 21 days before the election.
The conversation then turned to Newman’s book, in which she suggested Trump had been showing signs of mental decline as early as 2017. Reflecting on her time in the White House, Newman said that Trump often struggled with basic memory functions. “He would forget the names of his cabinet members. He would forget key details of policy issues that we were talking about as we were preparing for him to go out on stage,” she said, further fueling concerns about his cognitive abilities.
Newman theorized that Trump’s refusal to do interviews could be linked to his difficulty staying on message. “Once he starts to stumble, he starts to pivot” and often resorts to attacking others, she explained.
Coates played a clip of Trump boasting about passing a cognitive test but noted that he has consistently refused to release the full results. In response, Newman hinted there might be more to Trump’s medical history than what has been made public. “The doctors weren’t free to write what they wanted. They weren’t free to write what was really seen in those evaluations,” she said.
Newman also suggested that journalists ask pointed questions about Trump’s health. “They should ask, ‘Has Donald Trump had any issues with, for instance, stents? Has he ever had a stent?’” she proposed, urging the media to dig deeper into Trump’s medical history.
