Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, didn’t understand why the women on the first season of “The Apprentice” didn’t do so well when they were paired with men.
The two teams on the first season of the show started out separated by gender, but were mixed up after a few episodes after the women kept winning. Trump said he was shocked the women dominated the men at the beginning of the show.
“What surprised me most was how easily the women dominated initially,” Trump said at a 2004 press conference about the show, according to the Houston Chronicle. “Yet when the women were put with the men, they lost their dominance. I don’t know why. Maybe that’s a reflection of real life.”
Trump’s campaign did not immediately return a request for comment.
The remark is another in a series of derogatory comments Trump has made throughout his career toward women. In a different season of “The Apprentice” he called contestant Khloe Kardashian a “piglet.” In 2005, he boasted about being able to make unwanted sexual advances toward women, saying that because he was a celebrity, he could “grab them by the pussy.”
More than a dozen women have accused him of sexual assault. Trump has denied the claim by saying that the women weren’t attractive enough for him to assault or that they were coming forward for fame.
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.
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