A former contestant of Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” now believes the Republican presidential front-runner is racist and claims he never would have joined the reality TV show in 2007 had he been exposed to Trump’s “current manifestation.”
“Do you now think that Donald Trump is a racist?” Fox Business’ Stuart Varney asked season one runner-up Kwame Jackson on Monday.
“I’ve always thought that since his comments came out,” Jackson responded. “There’s a preponderance of comments. Whether it’s what [Trump] said about Mexicans being rapists. What he said about the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Jackson continued, “He talked about the Black Lives Matter movement being something that should be ostracized, we should not be paying attention to it, that Bernie Sanders should not have let them take the mic.”
“Donald Trump has said many racist things that are out there in the media already,” he said.
According to Jackson, racism has become “much more subtle [and] much more nuanced” over the years and Trump in particular is someone who has “a huge racial blind spot.”
“He doesn’t have a lot of folks around him of color in executive management roles on his campaign, and I don’t think he has the perspective of a lot of minority concerns,” Jackson told Varney.
“He talks about the blacks and the Hispanics and how he’s going to take care of them. What if they want to take care of themselves?” he added.
Jackson was one of several former contestants on Trump’s reality TV show who denounced their former boss during a press conference last week. Others include season one winner Randal Pinkett and Marshawn Evans.
The New York billionaire has since blasted his six former contestants who’ve spoken out against him.
“They just want to get back into the limelight like they had when they were with Trump. Total dishonesty and disloyalty,” he said in a statement released Wednesday evening.
