After a shocking firing as Donald Trump’s campaign manager Monday, Corey Lewandowski said it wasn’t like an episode of the candidate’s old reality TV show.
“He didn’t say, ‘Hey, you’re fired.’ It wasn’t like an episode of ‘The Apprentice,’ ” Lewandowski said in an interview on “Fox and Friends” Tuesday morning, prior to Trump’s scheduled appearance on the same show.
“There was a meeting yesterday,” Lewandowski explained. “I came to work around 6 … Then around 9:30 or so had a meeting with a couple other people in the office, then had a chance to speak to Mr. Trump on the telephone, and the idea is that the campaign wants to grow and get bigger and be more robust.”
According to Lewandowski, he’s a “small government guy.”
Even though he was axed from the Trump campaign and has been shrouded with scandals throughout it, Lewandowski still voiced his support for the presumed Republican nominee.
“He’s going to be the next president of the United States. I’m going to be there to support him — whether it’s an internal position, or as an external position, or I just tell my neighbors make sure you vote,” Lewandowski said, adding that he has “unbelievable respect” for Trump.
Lewandowski said he will still remain chairman of the New Hampshire delegation to the Republican National Convention next month in July.
He declined to answer a question on if he failed to “effectively pivot” from the primary season to the general election.
Less than half an hour later on “Fox and Friends,” Trump praised his former campaign manager.
“I’d give him a 10,” Trump said Tuesday on the Fox News program. “He managed beautifully. Now we’re going a different way.”
