'Omarosa' Reveals How Her White House Firing Really Went Down on 'SNL'
‘SNL’ has been quick with its hot takes this season, and after yet another White House casualty, they couldn’t resist the chance to add their own thoughts on what really went down.
ICYMI, Omarosa Manigault Newman joined the long—like, really long—list of people whom President Donald Trump sent packing this year when it was announced on Friday that she had resigned from her position with the Trump administration, effective January 20, 2018. At first the news didn’t seem all that interesting given the amount of White House turnover we’ve seen during the past months. But then reports started to surface that she had to be removed from the premises after she was fired by chief of staff John Kelly, which were then followed by Good Morning America anchor Robin Roberts‘ “Bye, Felicia” quip on the show. Naturally, Saturday Night Live writers and cast decided to take a closer look at what might have gone down.
Michael Che introduced the segment on last night’s “Weekend Update” by saying, “It was announced that Omarosa Manigault Newman was fired from her White House job. Whatever the hell that was.” (His best guess is that she was “Secretary of the Sunken Place.”)
“Man, when you get a ‘Bye, Felicia’ from Robin Roberts, you know you suck,” Che says after a clip of Roberts’ diss of the ex-Apprentice contestant plays (echoing a much re-tweeted tweet from earlier in the week). That’s when Leslie-Jones-as-Omarosa makes her second appearance of the night.
“I demand a retraction,” she tells Che. “I left that job by choice.” Then she spells it out for him: “That’s right, I quit. I deactivated my ID card. I changed the locks on my own office. I escorted myself off the premises. And then I threw myself into the bushes.”
When “security” arrives and tries to escort Jones’ Omarosa off the stage, she remains defiant. “Yeah, you better take my arm,” she tells the bearded guy in a suit. “Because I’m escorting you out of the building. And you better throw me into the Christmas tree!”
Watch the full clip below:
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