Trump: Producer Mark Burnett says there are 'NO TAPES' of him using racial slurs

President Trump tweeted on Monday night that Mark Burnett, the producer of The Apprentice, "called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa."

Trump is referring to Omarosa Manigault Newman, his former White House adviser and a repeat Apprentice contestant, who on Sunday said she personally heard a recording of Trump using the N-word during filming for the show. "I don't have that word in my vocabulary, and never have," Trump tweeted, adding that Omarosa said "such wonderful and powerful things about me — a true Champion of Civil Rights — until she got fired."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.