'The Apprentice' Producer Recalls Donald Trump Using N-Word, Says It's On Tape
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Bill Pruitt said Trump used a racial slur in reference to a Black contestant in the show's first season.
A former producer for “The Apprentice” claims there’s a recording of former President Donald Trump using a racial slur when he starred on the program.
Bill Pruitt, a producer for the first two seasons of the reality TV show that boosted Trump’s billionaire image, wrote in a Slate piece published Thursday that Trump used the N-word in reference to a Black contestant on the show.
During an off-camera meeting in which the show’s producers laid out the strengths and weaknesses of the show’s contestants in order to help Trump decide who should win at the end of the first season, Pruitt recalled one of Trump’s advisers praising a Black contestant named Kwame Jackson.
“Yeah,” Trump said, according to Pruitt, “but, I mean, would America buy a n— winning?”
Pruitt said in his piece that the conversation was “caught on tape” because the show’s producers recorded audio of all the off-camera briefings about contestants. He also wrote that he was recalling quoted conversations to the best of his ability and that “they are not verbatim.” He said he’s coming forward now because his nondisclosure agreement related to the show just expired.
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