With an administration dominated by white men, ‘black diversity in the White House is almost oxymoronic at this point,’ says former RNC chair
The departure of the former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault-Newman from the White House this week has placed the lack of diversity in Donald Trump’s administration under renewed scrutiny.
Manigault-Newman, the highest-ranking black person to work in the West Wing under Trump, abruptly left her post as a special assistant to the president on Wednesday. She subsequently criticized minority representation in the White House in a televised interview, claiming that many of Trump’s senior advisers “had never worked with minorities, [and] didn’t know how to interact with them”.
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