Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
by Omarosa Manigault Newman
View on GoodreadsOmarosa Manigault Newman's memoir of her years in Trump's orbit — The Apprentice, the campaign, her White House role, and her dismissal — published with secret audio recordings of senior staff including Kelly's firing of her in the Situation Room.
Core ideas
- The book's frame is the long Trump-Omarosa relationship — Apprentice-era loyalty deteriorating into adversarial — and her claim to a longer behind-the-scenes view than most White House memoirists had.
- The audio recordings — recorded covertly, released as part of the book promotion — became the book's defining feature, raising legal and ethical questions but providing genuine documentary material.
- The "Mental Decline" chapter on Trump's cognitive functioning prefigured later, more credentialed observations; whether Omarosa is a reliable narrator is contested, but the specific observations have largely been corroborated.
Published2018
Pages320
ISBN9781508269113
ReadAug 2024
