Donald Trump Used N-Word to Refer to Apprentice Player, Says Producer
A producer on The Apprentice whose decades-long nondisclosure agreement recently expired claims that Donald Trump used a racial slur to refer to a player on the reality competition.
Bill Pruitt, a producer who was involved in the first two seasons of the NBC series, says that he was present at a conversation in which Apprentice host/future United States president Trump used the N-word to describe Season 1 runner-up Kwame Jackson.
“What happens next I don’t entirely recall. I am still processing what I have just heard,” Pruitt writes in a lengthy essay for Slate. “None of [the producers] thinks to walk out the door and never return. I still wish I had.”
He continues: “Afterward, we film the final meeting in the boardroom, where Jackson and [eventual Season 1 winner Bill] Rancic are scrutinized by Trump, who, we already know, favors Rancic. Then we wrap production, pack up, and head home. There is no discussion about what Trump said in the boardroom, about how the damning evidence was caught on tape. Nothing happens.”
Steven Cheung, a Trump 2024 campaign spokesman, issued a statement to Slate in response. “This is a completely fabricated and bulls–t story that was already peddled in 2016.”
In 2016, as the Access Hollywood recording in which Trump’s “grab ’em by the p—y” comment surfaced, Pruitt tweeted that he knew of similar and more damning information.
In 2018, after Apprentice alum Omarosa Manigault-Newman said that she had heard the recording herself, Trump denied that any tapes of him using the slur existed. He tweeted that Apprentice producer Mark Burnett “called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa. I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up.”
TVLine has reached out to Trump, NBC and Jackson for comment.
Trump currently is on trial, facing 34 felony counts after being indicted on charges of falsifying business records, including hush-money paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to remain silent about their alleged extramarital affair in advance of his first run for president. Those payments were passed off as genuine business expenses by Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
Uh huh. Sure. I guess he’s going to be found not guilty and this is their next try to hurt him in the polls.
Did he then scream “this is MAGA country?” then hired some Nigerians to pretend to assault him?
LOL.
.
It’s not going to hurt him in the polls. Everyone knows he did it because that’s who he is. They’ve known it since this story came out in 2016.
No one who is going to vote for him cares because they like that he’s a racist. They’re proud of it.
Nobody “knows” he did it since it never happened. Sorry nobody believes the lies anymore.
See… the MAGA crowd just doesn’t care. Many of them use that word themselves. I’ve heard it myself. Trump has shown us he is a racist time and time again. If they don’t believe it by now, they’re the type to believe him when he tells them “it’s just a little rain” as he urinates all over them.
Guilty on all 34 counts, so, wrong again.
Forget playing Lotto today.
34 counts guilty! Trump doesn’t need help making him look bad. He does it all on his own.
Wow I’m so shocked that racist, sexist ignorant ****head used the n word!
Sad thing is, his followers won’t even care because they either also use that word or wish they could without getting in trouble.
Please explain to me how Donald Trump, I will wait
I think this bot is malfunctioning.
How Donald Trump what? Became President? We can’t figure it out either.
By getting a majority of the Electoral College vote. HTH
a known virulent racist is racist. sky is blue, water is wet, bears drop a deuce in the woods. won’t change anything for his idiot followers because they all seal-clap no matter what heinous thing he does. besides, most of them probably agree.
What proof do you have that he is racist?
CNN told him
He told us that Mexicans are “rapists and murderers,” and White Supremacists are “very fine people.”
No he didn’t
Yes Trump said that.
He definitely did.
I like how people just repeat talking points without knowing what he is saying. He did not say ALL Mexicans were rapists and killers. He said “Mexico (the country or government) is sending people with problems. Drugs. Crimes. Rapists.”
He was referring to the Mexican government emptying its prisons and send its worst offenders over to the U.S. border.
No he definitely didn’t. Sorry CNN lied to you.
Hmmm let me count the ways – wouldn’t rent to people of color. Called African countries Sh*thole countries. Said Mexicans are rapists and gang members. And this is off the top of my head Jim. oh and let’s not forget Charlottsville “good people on both sides”.
He was sued and found guilty of refusing to rent to minorities. He had to pay fines for it. Plus I think the Central Park 5 would probably agree that he is racist. Plus within the article they quote other people who have stated he used the n-word in a supremely derogatory manner. Do you want him to walk up to you and tell you his racist? Would that be enough evidence to suit you?
By getting a majority of the Electoral College. HTH
If there was a tape, it would’ve played nonstop back in 2016 when these lies first surfaced. Alas, “just take our frothing-at-the-mouth Trump-hating word for it” doesn’t work on anyone with a functioning frontal cortex anymore.
He lied about Obama not being a U.S. citizen. He was sued by Nixon’s Justice Department for refusing to rent to Black tenants and lying to Black applicants about vacancies. He ran an ad in New York newspapers demanding the death penalty for the Black/Latino Central Park Five and continued to accuse them of being guilty after they were acquitted and DNA evidence showed they were innocent. As a casino owner he said he didn’t want “Black guys counting my money…laziness is a trait in blacks.” He fired a Black contestant on The Apprentice and told him “you haven’t done anything.” He said Kamala Harris didn’t “meet the requirements” to be vice president.
He said Black voters are drawn to him because of his criminal indictments.
He’s a racist.
In other shocking news–water is wet!
not surprised… Nothing this inhuman does surprises me…
This will just make him even more popular with his cult.
It seems a lot more believable since Omarosa says it’s true. She’s not the world’s most trustworthy person, but her entire career is tied to her relationship with Trump on “The Apprentice” — so she’d be the first one to deny it if that wasn’t what was on the tape.
Nobody who supports him will care. In fact, they’ll love it. That’s just who these people are.
Omarosa said this back in 2018!
This man hurt our country so bad. Now because of him politicians and people in power feel no shame and refuse to own up to anything.
“I said the n word? prove it”
“I sexually harassed her? Why would I, she’s ugly”
“OH you have a video of me saying something damaging on live tv days ago? No you don’t, never happened.”
And because it “works” for him were getting less accountability and more cries of “witch hunt” and “fake news”.
Incredibly depressing.
I too qm glad they put an end to low inflation, cheap gas, and no new wars
Biden had nothing to do with inflation; it was a global event.
Of course he did. He’s a total dirtbag human being. And so are his followers.
Not surprised in the least by this. But what’s frustrating is that it doesn’t even matter. His people don’t care (or don’t believe anything).
I call B.S. Biden is losing in the polls, losing support among the black community, so time to pull out the race card, even though Biden himself is known to be racist and say racist things.
so are you going to cancel the whole blak community who say it the most? lol
LOL things that never happened. He know about this before 2020 election and never said anything? Puhlease
You know what an nda is, right?
Doesn’t mean it would not have leaked. You think this guy was the only one that knew about it if it were true?
TVLine isn’t stupid. They know exactly what is going to happen when an article is posted like this. It does nothing but inflame the comment section and cause posters to attack each other. The comments that are posted by posters aren’t going to change anyone’s mind. Don’t take the bait.
In terms of economics and not politics, I won’t engage in politics, it is a waste of time. But in terms of economics, the reason that inflation is such a huge issue, is because TPTB won’t stop spending money that it doesn’t have which causes interest rates to go up in an effort to combat inflation. There is too much money in the system. That includes forgiving student loans.
Of course he said it. When are you people gonna realize what he really is he’s a racist homophobic criminal bully who belongs in prison.
When the TDS-infected lunatics provide any evidence whatsoever for their endless lies. HTH
Wait. The son of a nazi sympathizer who the Nixon administration thought was racist and sued for not renting to black people (and if someone like Nixon thought you were racist, man, that should make you do some serious soul searching) who regularly says racist things about Latin Americans and Africans and a man who white supremacists universally seem to think is a a white supremacist said the N word? I think we all knew this. And we all know that he won’t lose a single vote even if he says it tomorrow.
And Biden’s daughter said he showered with her. Why wasn’t that headline news?
I don’t like Trump or Biden, but let’s not pretend that Joe isn’t just as bad.
When was the last time we saw a negative story about Biden on tvline.com?
Because it never happened.
Guy is a gutless jerk. If it bothered him so much he would have quit the show at that time and came forward at that time. Instead he keeps working on the show for another year or two and waits 20 years to come out with this story.
This is so clearly a lie it’s so funny. It would have come out in 2016 if it was true.
Tell me you didn’t comprehend the part about the NDA without telling me you didn’t comprehend the part about the NDA.
NDA or not, if this happened it would have leaked. One call to Rachel Maddow as an anonymous source, and Bob’s your uncle.
Quelle suprise.
The comments here under a Trump piece never fail to entertain. The left regurgitates the usual “Trump bad” tropes while the right proudly declares that they’re still voting for Trump, regardless of what the rigged system says he did. You’re both blinded to the fact that both sides are corrupt, and I doubt you can find 10 people in Congress between the House and Senate who aren’t enriching themselves at the expense of the people they are sworn to represent. Why won’t they pass meaningful legislation against insider trading by Congress? Because they all do it. How do so many of them become millionaires on a Congressional salary? I guess they all just suddenly get really lucky. So, yeah, go ahead and root on your sides, but without serious governmental reform this country will be lucky to survive and celebrate a 300th anniversary. Have fun watching Rome burn.