Listen to Donald Trump plot a whites vs. blacks version of The Apprentice


Back in 2005, when Donald Trump was just a billionaire reality star and not a major party's nominee for president, he went on Howard Stern's radio show to discuss his latest idea for his reality competition, The Apprentice.
"One thing I want to ask your opinion [of]," Trump begins telling Stern, is a "concept thrown out by some person: nine blacks against nine whites." Stern immediately responds, "This I like."
As Stern and his co-host Robin Quivers giggle about the idea — and how it could start a "riot" — Stern interjects to ask Trump whether the nine black contestants would be "very dark-skinned blacks or light-skinned blacks." Trump assures the host there would be an "assortment of blacks," but adds that all nine "whites" would ideally be blonde.
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The entire relevant segment of Trump's appearance on Stern's show is below, courtesy of Buzzfeed News. Take a listen, and keep your ears perked for Trump's explanation of how the controversial concept would have been "handled very beautifully by me." Kimberly Alters
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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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