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Trevor Noah admits he was impressed with reality TV villain-turned-White House advisor-turned new resistance hero Omarosa Manigault-Newman. The one-time Apprentice star visited Comedy Central‘s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Tuesday, and came prepared to state her case (and sell a few copies of her D.C. tell-all, of course).
“If anything, Omarosa strikes me as a true Donald Trump protégé, and she seems to excel at the game even more than he does,” Noah told IndieWire a day after the interview aired. “She’s really learned from him. She knows how to mobilize the media. She knows how to keep a story bubbling. I mean, in a microcosm she shows you exactly what Donald Trump did to get into the White House.”
It’s hard to know what’s real these days, when the White House is at the forefront of spinning lies and propaganda. But the switch by Manigault-Newman was straight out of reality TV. “I think we’re in a position where, because we don’t know what reality is … I mean, it’s weird speaking to people where essentially all you have to do is flip your position and somehow the entire conversation changes,” Noah said. “It’s a really interesting administration to deal with and interviews and conversations to have, because it’s not usual that you see such dramatic flips as we’re seeing these days.”
On The Daily Show, Manigault-Newman offered advice on how to stop Trump’s damage: Deprive him of attention, which is the thing he craves the most — and why he constantly picks battles and throws out racist dog whistles. But as Noah notes, it’s a bit too late for that.
“Whenever people talk about starving Trump of his oxygen, I think, like a fire, you can only starve a fire of its oxygen when it’s still a fledgling fire,” he said. “Once it becomes a wildfire, you’re trying to put it out, the oxygen option is now lost to you.”
