Ex- ‘Apprentice’ Stars To Disavow Trump’s ‘Unpatriotic’ Campaign

In this photo taken April 25, 2011, Donald Trump is interviewed in New York. After months of flirting with politics, Trump said Monday, May 16, 2011, that he won't run for president, choosing to stick with hosting "T... In this photo taken April 25, 2011, Donald Trump is interviewed in New York. After months of flirting with politics, Trump said Monday, May 16, 2011, that he won't run for president, choosing to stick with hosting "The Celebrity Apprentice" over entering the race for the Republican nomination. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) MORE LESS
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Six former contestants on Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s business-themed game show “The Apprentice” plan to publicly denounce his “unpatriotic” and “self-serving” campaign, according to a Thursday report from the New York Daily News.

“Based on [our experience working for the Trump Organization] and Donald’s campaign, we do not believe he is worthy of becoming president of the United States,” Randal Pinkett, the first person of color to win the show, told the paper.

Marshawn Evans Daniels, who was a contestant on season four, called the billionaire’s bid for the White House “unpatriotic, anti-American, self-serving, regressive and downright lazy.”

“Trump is passionately and strategically reigniting a dirty and divisive culture soaked in a history of prejudice, fear and hate,” she said.

Pinkett and Daniels are slated to join with Kwame Jackson, Kevin Allen, James Sun, and Tara Dowdell in a Friday press conference to denounce Trump, according to the Daily News.

Trump slammed his former protégés for their “total dishonesty and disloyalty” in a statement.

“How quickly they forget,” the real estate mogul said. “They just want to get back into the limelight like they had when they were with Trump.”

Trump hosted the game show, which pitted aspiring entrepreneurs against each other for “the ultimate job interview,” for 14 seasons from 2004 until 2015. NBC cut ties with Trump shortly after he launched his presidential bid over his controversial remarks that undocumented Mexican immigrants crossing the border into the U.S. are “rapists” and drug dealers.

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  1. protégés

    This word seems a stretch. Weren’t they fellow guests on a game show? Weren’t they selected by producers? It has been most illustrative reading PR BS glossed into news writing as sort of fact-ish this campaign season…

  2. Fired Losers! Every one of them!

  3. HA! Just how many former Trump [fill in the blank] will come forward to dish on their dealing with this self-absorbed pig-eyed sack o’shit fraud? I mean, he’s been a flaming asshole for decades so we’re talking nearly unlimited material.

    Am I a bad person because I can’t stop laughing at this buffoon? Let the twit’s tweets begin!

  4. from the Daily News story… Daily News

    Like many of Trump’s retorts, this one also included a thinly veiled threat.

    “They should be careful or I’ll play hours of footage of them individually praising me,” he said.

    ummmm… not sure how Donnie learned his business smarts but it’s a good idea to revise your opinions and practices as more and/or new information becomes available…

  5. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    So gad to see that there will be an antidote to the Stepford wife like programmed women spokeswomen for Trump. Their nauseating absolute loyalty combined with the tough-guy male spox has sorely needed a response. Three cheers for Trumps disloyal defectors. This will perfectly complete the clown show that is the Trump candidacy.

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