Donald Trump once considered a ‘black vs. white’ version of ‘Apprentice’

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Recently, Donald Trump’s comments about The Apprentice have been resurfacing to come back to bite him in this heated election season.

Just kidding. It’s Donald Trump we’re talking about.

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According to Entertainment Weekly, Trump said in a 2005 episode of his daily talk show that he had been considering changes to his show by dividing the contestants along racial lines. “To be honest, I wasn’t particularly happy with the most recent season,” he said at the time. “So this time around, I wanted to do the casting myself.”

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“An idea that is fairly controversial – creating a team of successful African-Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.”

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The business mogul never followed through on the idea, though it was clear he hadn’t given up on it entirely when he brought up again in an interview with Howard Stern, though he said at the time, “Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.”