Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House

by Omarosa Manigault Newman

Overview

In the #1 New York Times bestseller, the former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides an eye-opening and “explosive” (The Boston Globe) look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.

Few were a member of Donald Trump’s inner orbit longer than Omarosa Manigault Newman. Their relationship spanned fifteen years—through four television shows, a presidential campaign, and a year by his side in the most chaotic, outrageous White House in history. But that relationship came to a decisive and definitive end, and Omarosa finally shares her side of the story in this “deftly executed” (The Guardian), jaw-dropping account.

A stunning tell-all and takedown from a strong, intelligent woman who took every name and number, Unhinged is a must-read for any concerned citizen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781982109714
Publisher:	Gallery Books
Publication date:	04/23/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Omarosa Manigault Newman is the former Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in Donald Trump’s White House, and was an aide in the Office of Presidential Personnel and the Office of the Vice President in the Clinton White House. She has served as an adjunct professor in the Howard University School of Business. Prior to joining the Trump administration, Omarosa served as a chaplain in the California State Military Reserve. She currently serves in pastoral ministry at The Sanctuary @ Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida, where her husband, John Allen Newman, is the senior pastor.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Prologue: "The Staff Works for Me, Not the President," xxviii

Introduction: Loyalty Over Logic xliii

Part 1 The Apprentice Years

Chapter 1 "Make Us Proud" 3

Chapter 2 Winning Bigly 21

Chapter 3 The Ultimate Merger 36

Chapter 4 Shattered 50

Part 2 The Campaign

Chapter 5 The Woman Problem 69

Chapter 6 Winning Votes and Defeating Opponents 89

Chapter 7 Unconventional Standards 111

Chapter 8 Trump vs. Clinton 129

Chapter 9 Election Day 154

Part 3 The White House

Chapter 10 The Transition 173

Chapter 11 Tackled by My Teammates 203

Chapter 12 "I Think the President Is Losing It!" 239

Chapter 13 The Unraveling 274

Chapter 14 The Fall 296

Epilogue 323

Acknowledgments 331

Editorial Reviews

The impress of Omarosa’s personality on the page is indelible and mesmerizing...Unhinged is such a pleasure to read because it is unashamedly, thrillingly vindictive.

The Weekly Standard

Manigault Newman has unleashed Trump’s own tricks and tactics against him.

The Washington Post

Juicy.

The New York Times

Newman has written a revealing book...Her accounts of trying to connect Trump with black voters during the 2016 presidential campaign are priceless.

Financial Times

Explosive.

The Boston Globe

Omarosa Manigault Newman sashays in for the kill in Unhinged...deftly executed.

The Guardian

Fascinating.

Slate

A deeply critical portrait of the president.

Time

Omarosa titled her kiss-and-tell “Unhinged.” Trump seems intent on proving her right.

The New Yorker

Omarosa titled her kiss-and-tell “Unhinged.” Trump seems intent on proving her right.

The New Yorker

A deeply critical portrait of the president.

Time

08/20/2018
In this venomous tell-all, the Trump presidency resembles the reality show that birthed it. Newman recounts her journey from a 2004 turn on the Trump-hosted television competition The Apprentice—where, she candidly recounts, she crafted a provocative, troublemaking persona to succeed—to her work on his presidential campaign and 2017 stint in the White House Office of Public Liaison, where, as one of the administration's few African-American staffers, she struggled to spin his policies to women and minorities. She describes her gradual emergence from blind loyalty to the "cult" of "Trumpworld" into viewing the president as "a racist, a bigot and a misogynist" who is "just this side of functionally illiterate" and suffering "mental decline," which she blames for his tweets. Newman is similarly cutting about other administration figures like Kellyanne Conway ("a calculat swamp monster") and first daughter Ivanka, who, Newman alleges, manipulates Trump's purported quasi-incestuous infatuation with her. Few of these accusations are new; Newman's splashiest revelation is her unverified claim to have a tape of Trump using the n-word. (She has released tapes that confirm her account of her firing and contradict what Trump and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said about it.) This entertaining, gossipy memoir of White House dysfunction will be catnip to scandal lovers. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

Newman has written a revealing book...Her accounts of trying to connect Trump with black voters during the 2016 presidential campaign are priceless.

Financial Times

Fascinating.

Slate

Juicy.

The New York Times

2018-09-04

The one-time reality TV contestant and player in an ongoing White House drama bares all—and hints at more.

According to Newman, there's a recording out there with the N-word spilling out of the mouth of the sitting president. "During production," she writes, "he was miked, and there is definitely an audio track." That she or some other former staffer hasn't brought forth such a thing, she suggests, is just a matter of time, but no matter. Here, the former Apprentice cast member dishes on Donald Trump—and just about everyone else in the White House in the last couple of years. A few are spared: Anthony Scaramucci, for instance, was "cocky and arrogant…but oddly likable," while Trump referred to Kellyanne Conway's contrarian husband as "Flip," for "f*cking little island people," a reference to his Filipino heritage. As for first daughter Ivanka? "Like her father," writes the author, "Ivanka was thin-skinned and could not seem to take a joke." But most of the news, such as it is, in this memoir is about Trump himself, and there's not much that even the casual observer wouldn't know: Trump thrives on chaos? Check. He has anger issues? Check. The White House is a mess? Check. The memoir serves as reinforcement, in other words, rather than as fresh meat, and as such, it's fairly dispensable, especially as the author attempts to explain why she went to the Trump side in the first place: She came from a rough side of town where wealth and power were aspirations and those who had them were role models, and as for his aberrations, well, "he was just overwhelmed, as we all were, by the awesome responsibility of leading the nation." Once the veil is lifted and she escapes "from the cult of Trumpworld," things get a little more critical—Racist? Check. Rattled? Check—but no more newsworthy.

Firmly in the secondary tier of books about the bizarre, chaotic crew at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Kirkus Reviews