Black Twitter destroys Omarosa Manigault for insisting 'Trump is racial, not racist'

Former senior Trump aide Omarosa Manigault Newman is facing a backlash after describing the president as "racial."

During an interview with ABC News, she defended Trump by insisting that he was "racial, not racist."

"I will acknowledge many of the exchanges, particularly in the last six months, have been racially charged," she said. "Do we then just stop and label him as a racist? No."

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Manigault Newman, a former star of Trump's TV show "The Apprentice," served as director of communications for the White House's Office of Public Liaison prior to her resignation this week.

But many black Twitter users were not pleased with her attempted defense of Trump. Read some of their reactions below: