Piers Morgan took exception to President Donald Trump’s slam of Omarosa Manigault-Newman as a “dog,” but admitted he had been called a lot worse by the former “Apprentice” star.
“This is an outrageous slur,” the “Good Morning Britain” host quipped in a tongue-in-cheek reaction to Trump’s tweet. “Dogs are loyal, kind, affectionate creatures.”
This is an outrageous slur.
Dogs are loyal, kind, affectionate creatures. https://t.co/w1zsGVF2d4— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 14, 2018
The president unleashed a no-turning-back attack on the former White House aide after she revealed she had made secret recordings during her tenure in the Trump administration.
Trump calls Omarosa a ‘dog’: ‘When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break …’ https://t.co/xZHqX7XIXm pic.twitter.com/qsjHbsTXhv
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) August 14, 2018
“When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out,” Trump tweeted Tuesday. “Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!”
Morgan later responded to a question from a Twitter user about his response to the president’s comments.
So you approve this tweet? No condemnation at all.. https://t.co/AxzyLPrvKa
— Lennox Bacela (@lennoxbacela) August 14, 2018
Omarosa called me a lot worse than that every day for 4 weeks on Celebrity Apprentice – including a ‘f**king f*ggot’.
I’m just upset for all dogs who’ve been unfairly smeared here. https://t.co/uzhJzNYH1L— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 14, 2018
“Omarosa called me a lot worse than that every day for 4 weeks on Celebrity Apprentice – including a ‘f**king f*ggot,'” Morgan tweeted, referring to his appearance with Manigault-Newman during the first season of the Trump-hosted “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
Earlier this year, the British journalist slammed the administration’s hiring of his former co-star whom he shredded in a scathing op-ed for the Daily Mail, in which he claimed Manigault-Newman offered to sleep with him in order to win the season.
*NEW: Omarosa offered me sex to win Celebrity Apprentice, then called me a ‘f***ing f*gg*t’, invented gay smears & threatened to punch me.
Why the hell was this vile creature ever employed at the White House? https://t.co/HyxnSWyBLZ pic.twitter.com/UbXQzDX1Tj— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 13, 2018
“I’ve met a lot of vile human beings in my life, from dictators and terrorists to sex abusers and wicked conmen. But I’ve never met anyone quite so relentlessly loathsome as Omarosa; a vicious, duplicitous, lying, conniving, backstabbing piece of work,” Morgan wrote in the op-ed.
“Omarosa is a reprehensible human being, prepared to offer sex to win a reality TV show and use the most vile homophobic slurs against rival contestants,” he added.
As Trump’s tweets about Manigault-Newman reverberated on Twitter Tuesday, it was no surprise that the mainstream media would find a way to make one of his comments about race.
“People in the White House hated her. She was vicious but not smart,” Trump tweeted Monday.
“Who does the president attack on Twitter constantly? African Americans,” CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on “New Day” Tuesday. “Whether it’s the UCLA basketball team, whether it’s the NFL football players, whether it’s our colleague Don Lemon, LeBron James. It’s always black people that he’s attacking. Not exclusively, but to a disproportionate extent, he’s attacking black people.”
Piers Morgan called out Toobin’s assessment as “Fake news.”
Fake news.
Trump does it to everyone – black, white, male, female.
This may be unpresidential – but to turn his Omarosa ‘dog’ jibe into a racist issue is nonsense. https://t.co/qJsIUnsSCl— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 14, 2018
While there are always those ready to slam Trump for anything he tweets, many did agree with Morgan.
Nobody said blacks are dogs, he said she is a dog
— Cerberus (@CerberusPhotos) August 14, 2018
I agree with you fully. He has used “dog” before on the whites too. He uses “dog” to demean people. Nothing like racism here.
— Mohamed Dalacha (@Dalacha_01) August 14, 2018
— Cedric Taylor ? (@TheUrbanEntity) August 14, 2018
Rightly, or wrongly, he attacks everyone. Everybody is fair game. No one is exempt. Very unpresedential, but not racist or sexist.
— Paul McGee (@psmcg76) August 14, 2018
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