The new head of Donald Trump's African-American outreach traded barbs with outspoken filmmaker Spike Lee on Tuesday after the director called her out in an impassioned, biting Instagram post.
Lee sparked the dispute when he shared a close-up image of the ex-"Apprentice" star from an early edition of Tuesday's Daily News that showed Omarosa wearing a clown nose.
"Ms. Theresa "Omarosa" Manigault 'Pic Is Like This Cuz I'm Looking At Her SIDEWAYS," he began in the caption. "Trump Has Named Her As His "Director Of African-American Outreach. You Might Know Her From Trump's RealityTV Show The Apprentice. #Who's Next? Step N' Fetchit? Aunt Jemina? Uncle Ben? Sleep N' Eat? Rastus? Lil' N---r Jim? Omarosa Gonna Give Out Free Popeye's Chicken With Sides To Deliver Da Black Vote To Trump? YA-DIG? SHO-NUFF."
Omarosa, who rose to fame as "the villain" on the first season of Trump's "The Apprentice", fired back roughly an hour later, blasting the "Chi-Raq" mastermind for using a racial slur and referencing her mother, Theresa, in his diatribe.
"You attack me I can deal with!" she wrote on Twitter. "You attack my mom NOT cool!! How does this help our community? You attack my mom?? Wow! #newLow!"
"Your using the N word and terms that are divide our community??" she continued. For a cheap shot at me and my mom?? NOT Cool!!"
Lee, 59, has not responded to the pointed rebuttal.
Omarosa revealed she had been named the director of African American outreach for Trump on Monday. Recent polls from both Pennsylvania and her native Ohio showed Trump has 0% support from black voters in either state, but she insisted the presumptive Republican nominee has his backers in the African-American community.
"I just spent an amazing weekend with African-Americans for Trump, about 300 of them," she said on MSNBC.
"Donald Trump is focused on improving the conditions of African-Americans in this country," she added.
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