Donald Trump Called Deaf ‘Apprentice’ Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded,’ Three Staffers Say

[NCTraveler]

Donald Trump repeatedly called a deaf actress “retarded,” three sources tell The Daily Beast.


Trump, who was accused on Wednesday of making sexual comments to Marlee Matlin, an Oscar-winning actress who once competed on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice, also apparently had a habit of insulting, mimicking, and demeaning as mentally handicapped his star female contestant—all because she was deaf.

In 2011, Matlin, who is still the only deaf actor or actress to win an Academy Award for best actress, appeared on Trump’s NBC reality-TV series. By the end of the season, she had come in second place and earned her fair share of compliments from Trump in the aired footage. But according to three longtime staffers who worked on Matlin’s season of Celebrity Apprentice, Trump would regularly disrespect the actress and would even treat her as if she were mentally disabled.

Sometimes the insults would be behind her back; other times they would be right in front of her.

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[saltpoint]

1. Trump treats women badly. It sounds like he

treated this particular woman very badly, and this woman happens to be wildly intelligent and talented.

Two things Donald Trump is not and will never be.

[saltpoint]

6. Very possible. Marlee Matlin is a powerfully good

actor. She did such a great job in a series of West Wing episodes a while back.

Trump is nowhere near her league.

[texasfiddler]

2. Trump's defense - She never heard me say it!

[yallerdawg]

3. Non-disclosure agreements.

"Don't tell people what I'm really like."

[Achilleaze]

4. And the Republican Party applauds him for this low-life shit

[bellmartin]

7. When I saw this one last night, it affected me powerfully

The many assault survivors coming forward have each made me further disgusted and sickened by Trump (which, it goes without saying by this time, takes some doing). We hear often of this sort of sexual assailant, though, although clearly most aren't as well known as he is.

It's another and I think rarer sort of sociopathy that leads even the most minimally functional adult to mock physical handicaps, even imputing mental deficiency to her.

When I read this one, I didn't even try to read it aloud to my wife, because I was too choked up. I just had to hand it to her and let her read it with horror herself.

There's a clear irony, too, because I'd be surprised if any of us here doubt that Ms. Matlin is a hundred times the person he is.

How is it possible that someone millions of people would still vote for as president is the worst human being so many of us even know of?