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Another APPRENTICE "Star" says Omarosa telling truth. Trump used "Bad" words! = Penn Jillette Says Trump 'Apprentice' Tapes Exist: "I Was in the Room"
~~~> "He would say racially insensitive things that made me uncomfortable," the comic and magician said of Trump during their time on 'Celebrity Apprentice.'
Penn Jillette says he knows for a fact that Mark Burnett possesses tapes of Donald Trump saying disparaging, racist remarks while working on the NBC reality show Celebrity Apprentice.
Half of the magician duo Penn & Teller (appeared on Celebrity Apprentice in 2012) recently told Vulture in an interview posted Tuesday that he is positive recordings exist because "I was in the room" when Trump would say "racially insensitive things that made me uncomfortable."
The infamous tapes that have dogged Trump since his campaign are once again in the news after former White House staffer and reality star Omarosa Manigault Newman said she heard the tapes, which allegedly include Trump using the N-word during production of the NBC series, which he hosted.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/penn-jillette-says-trump-apprentice-tapes-exist-i-was-room-1134734
trueblue2007
(17,208 posts)I wish Clay Aiken would come forward. I like him.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Not uncomfortable enough to leave the room, mind you.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)coward
Afromania
(2,768 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)Arnold, Omarosa, Gillette, the woman pre-celebrity whose name I cant recall-and Lil John? I know people said 45 called him an Uncle Tom but dont know if he said anything.
Gee, its like theres a pattern.
RandySF
(58,784 posts)Hekate
(90,650 posts)...we are engrossed in this play?
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Hekate
(90,650 posts)...while posing as Republicans.
mucifer
(23,535 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's actually pretty enlightening. He's definitely not a hardcore libertarian anymore and even admits that he's softened on a lot - even feeling he may support the idea of a living wage.
His reasoning for not mentioning what Trump says is either a copout or a legit reasoning - he doesn't want to be wrong. He readily admits he can't remember every single detail and that he was under a lot of pressure at the time, and with little sleep, so, with the frenzy we've seen with everything, the last thing he wants to do is incorrectly state something and I think I kinda see his point.
People are kind of making the tapes out to be a joke. It sorta kinda reminds me of the 'Whitey' tapes that supposedly existed back in 2008 (tapes where Michelle Obama ranting against whitey). The tapes never existed despite people saying they did. It became a running gag. Now whether there are tapes is irrelevant to this point - the tapes will or will not show themselves regardless of what Penn Jillette says. It's basically just him claiming something. The thing is, Tom Arnold, God Bless Him, is out there raving about these tapes...and people are starting to make a mockery of it to the point where it's now just becoming a fucking joke with a punchline.
If these tapes exist ... no amount of celebrities saying they do exist, and heard Trump use that type of language, is going to do anything if the actual tapes aren't released. Instead, people just shrug and laugh it off and it continues to be a joke. So, I get what Penn is saying here. Especially if tapes are released and ... it's just Trump saying stupid shit like, "I'd fuck her!".
So, I get it.
Anyway, here's the interview:
http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/penn-jillette-in-conversation.html
It's a good read.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,923 posts)ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts).............that Trump would call him "Uncle Tom" despite being repeatedly told by his producers to stop.
I'm guessing that some of these little comments/nicknames are what prompted Gilbert Gottfried to call him "Mein Fuhrer" right to his face.
trueblue2007
(17,208 posts)trump is a racist pig. evil man.