The real reason Donald Trump fired Omarosa today
Donald Trump fired former Apprentice contestant Omarosa from a senior White House position today, or more accurately, John Kelly fired her with Trump’s blessing. The story is making headlines because Omarosa reportedly blew up at Kelly after she was fired and had to be “escorted” or “dragged” out of the White House, depending on which major news outlet you want to believe. But the bigger story is why she was fired at this particular time.
There was no hint that this was coming. Unlike some of Trump’s most infamous “resignations” (hint: they’re all firings no matter how they’re officially classified), this one didn’t ramp up in the media beforehand. Considering that she was actually fired last night, just hours after Trump’s candidate Roy Moore shockingly lost in Alabama, it’s difficult to believe that the two weren’t connected. Moore lost after the Democratic Party made a major last minute push to get out the African-American vote in the state.
So what are we looking at here? Is it possible that Trump fired his most prominent black adviser, simply because he’s pissed that black women made him look foolish in the Alabama race? Although she didn’t actually do anything in her job, Omarosa was technically in charge of African-American outreach for the White House. So perhaps Trump really did blame her for failing to make that happen in Alabama. It’s not as if black people were going to turn out and vote for a racist like Roy Moore anyway, but that wouldn’t stop Trump from scapegoating her.
By all accounts, John Kelly has wanted to fire Omarosa since the day he became White House Chief of Staff back in August, yet he didn’t do it until just now, presumably because Donald Trump had intervened on her behalf. This means the firing wasn’t about Kelly. It was about Trump. He fired his highest ranking black adviser just hours after black voters harmed him. We don’t have all the details yet, but the math isn’t that difficult to do.
