Following an especially intense episode in which the team failed the “Get A Pedophile Elected Out Of Partisan Spite” challenge, another contestant has been let go from The White House Apprentice—this time, Omarosa Manigault Newman, better known by her fearsome mononym “Omarosa.” Omarosa was hotly tipped to last most of the rest of the season due to her triumphs on Trump’s previous reality shows, where she displayed the sort of open animosity, zeal for backstabbing, and unfailing selfishness that makes one ideally suited for life as a public servant in 2017. Her exit was announced in a statement from fellow contestant Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said that Omarosa had “resigned yesterday to pursue opportunities” in the usual deadpan, dissembling parlance that has made her the show’s resident “villain,” right alongside everyone else.
Naturally, Sanders’ statement has already been contradicted by the press, with New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor saying she was actually fired and “escorted off of the White House grounds by security,” where she immediately began “calling friends saying that she left voluntarily because her year anniversary was coming up.” CNN correspondent April Ryan added that “multiple sources” told her that “there was drama,” including a dramatic showdown with Chief Of Staff Gen. John Kelly in which she “acted very vulgar and cursed a lot.”