RUSH: Omarosa. You know, I told you from the get-go I have never understood some of Trump\u2019s staffing decisions. It turns out Omarosa worked way back, I think, in the Clinton White House doing some menial things. But Omarosa basically is a civilian, who ended up finding fame and stardom on a television show called The Apprentice.<\/p>\n
And this is what happens. This is exactly what happens when what I call “civilians,” people not in show business… I don\u2019t mean it as a put-down. But when people not in show business, it is a specific mentality, showbiz has a bunch of requirements for success. And, interestingly enough, fame is not what drives… I mean, it\u2019s there, but it\u2019s not what drives showbiz stars. It\u2019s other stuff that does. The fame is a product of the success elsewhere. But you take a civilian that has no desire in showbiz and no experience in it, and you give \u2019em a little bit of fame, and if they can\u2019t handle it, Omarosa Manigault, whatever, is what you end up with.<\/p>\n
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You put \u2019em on The Apprentice and you make \u2019em big stars and you build advertising campaigns around them, promotional campaigns, and then you take her to the White House to do what? Director of liaison services or whatever just to get her in there. And then the time comes when you realize she is not qualified, she\u2019s not even there for a real gig. So, for whatever reason or not, you have to get rid of her. And this is what happens.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why you can\u2019t mix people, not just showbiz, but people that don\u2019t have any training or experience in it who all of a sudden… She loved being famous, she loved being known, she loved being thought of as great without having to do anything. She should have been eternally grateful to Donald Trump. But what is she doing? She\u2019s running around secretly recording people in there. Why is she doing that?<\/p>\n
She\u2019s secretly recording because she\u2019s taking out an insurance policy for just this thing in case she gets fired, she\u2019s gonna embarrass them all, she\u2019s gonna show them and so forth. This is just, to me, it\u2019s so unnecessary. Now, the media loves it just like they love the Brennan thing and just like they like the Strzok Smirk stuff because anything, anything to focus their hatred on Trump. If Omarosa Manigault was doing this same kind of thing to President Obama, they would be destroying her.<\/p>\n
And she\u2019s making the mistake of thinking the media love her just like John McCain made the mistake of thinking the media loved him. She\u2019s just a tool. She\u2019s just a pawn. And they\u2019re using her famously for it. I don\u2019t think that any of this is gonna end up hurting Trump. I think more people are disgusted by this and by her and don\u2019t want any part of this. Some people who voted for Trump may hold him accountable, responsible, or whatever, but this is not the kind of stuff that\u2019s gonna do damage to Donald Trump. There\u2019s other stuff that could, but this isn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Now, now, look, I get this.<\/p>\n
“People magazine reported in 2004, she was ‘banished from four jobs\u00a0in two years\u00a0with the Clinton administration.\u2019 … At her last short-lived administration role, Cheryl Shavers, the former Under Secretary for Technology at the Clinton Commerce Department, opined, ‘She was asked to leave as quickly as possible, she was so disruptive.'” Look, the woman has been a problem since long before she was on The Apprentice.\u00a0 I understand that.<\/p>\n
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My point is — and free will to disagree with it because I will admit I don\u2019t know anything about this.\u00a0 I\u2019m just telling you, when you put somebody who\u2019s already a malcontent, who\u2019s already got problems, you give them, you put them on a nationwide TV show and you turn them into a star and then you take it away from \u2019em, and I\u2019m guaranteeing you, whatever b-i-itch characteristic she had are gonna be multiplied by 25.\u00a0 I mean, look at what\u2019s happening to kids on Twitter and Facebook, all this fame seeking, and then they start losing their likes or what have you.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the total explanation for who she is and what she is, but she should never have been there, she should have never been in the White House.\u00a0 Like I say, the staffing decisions, some of them, have just puzzled me amazingly.\u00a0 I\u2019m not gonna go into who some of those other staffing decisions are, what they were.\u00a0 Many of them are gone already by now anyway.\u00a0 But this one, this one is classic.\u00a0 She\u2019s gonna do everything she can to maintain her stardom, whatever it is in her mind, and her fame.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s being fed, folks.\u00a0 It\u2019s being fed by the Drive-By Media.\u00a0 The Drive-By Media is happy to feed her appetite, her need for whatever.\u00a0 And the more she bashes Trump and the more stories she\u2019s got about Trump and the more allegations, it doesn\u2019t even matter if they\u2019re true; the media doesn\u2019t care.\u00a0 So she\u2019s getting exactly what she wanted out of this.\u00a0 My point is what I\u2019m telling you should have been known and understood by countless numbers of people in the White House before she was even brought in there under some make-work, phony job title.<\/p>\n
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RUSH:\u00a0 Eden Prairie, Minnesota.\u00a0 This is Richard.\u00a0 Great to have you on the EIB Network, Richard.\u00a0 Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 Hello.\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 I\u2019m truly in the presence of greatness.\u00a0 Impotent dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH:\u00a0 Thank you, sir.\u00a0 I very much appreciate that.<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I would say the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but it\u2019s the land of leftists that voted for Keith Ellison for some reason.<\/p>\n
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CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry.\u00a0 I\u2019m one of the people that thinks this is absolutely hilarious, because I never watched The Apprentice. But I had always heard the Trump thing and there was this evil woman on there named Omarosa, and she would lie and she would cheat and she would steal and she was the devil incarnate and all this stuff, right?\u00a0 So then I hear that Trump brought her into — hired her — at the White House.\u00a0 I thought, “What is he thinking?” Well, he\u2019s a loyal guy.\u00a0 She will end up on MSNBC as a commentator, because this gal loves the spotlight —<\/p>\n