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ComedianTom Arnoldclaims he’s seen a tape ofPresident Trumpcalling his sonEric Trump“the R-word.”
During an appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!on Wednesday night, Arnold claimed that he’s seen a compilation tape of outtakes from Trump’s reality showThe Apprenticein which the now-president uses the N-word and calls his son Eric a “retard.”
Arnold toldRolling Stonethe same thing in a recent interview, also claiming that Trumpused the C-word on the tape.
Arnold, who has known Trump for 30 years, has recently been on the hunt for the recordings, as documented on his Viceland series,The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold.
Arnold also told PEOPLE earlier this year, “There was a compilation tape ofApprenticeouttakes. In the fall of 2016, I was doing stand-up comedy and theAccess Hollywoodtape had not taken him down. And I said, ‘I’ve seen a tape, because people share stuff, of him.’ I talked about the outtakes that I’d seen and I went into detail about the specific beats that were put together on the shows and the specific things he’d said. There was a soft N-word, there was calling Eric [Trump] the R-word. A compliment was him saying some of the work there was ‘f—able.’ ”
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Arnold said that Trump didn’t specifically call someone the N-word, but claimed that Trump said “he didn’t want to go to Rao’s [restaurant in N.Y.C.] because there are crazy N-words on the way up there. It was just in conversation, like no problem. Everything he said was not in secret, no problem, just casual.”
Rumors have long swirled that outtakes exist of Trump using the N-word during his time onThe Apprentice.
FormerApprentice-contestant-turned-Trump-stafferOmarosa Manigault Newmanfueled the fire recently with the publication of her explosivetell-all memoir,Unhinged,claiming that multiple sources told her thatTrump was recorded repeatedly using the racial slur.TheCelebrity Big Brotherstar clarified that although she believes the allegations are true, she never personally heard Trump use the racial epithet during her time on the show. Since her book went to press, she claims she has listened to a recording of Trump saying the N-word.
Meanwhile, his press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that Manigault Newman’s book is “riddled with lies and false accusations,” but noted that she “can’t guarantee” a tape doesn’t exist of Trump uttering the racial slur.
OnJimmy Kimmel Live!, Arnold called onThe Apprenticecreator Mark Burnett and MGM Studio to release the tapes so Americans can see the real, uncensored Trump.
“He’s incompetent, he’s racist, he sexually assaults people — they edit it into a 20 minute show and 20 minutes of the board room set,” Arnold told Kimmel.
source: people.com
