Another unsurprising shoe drops. Daily Beast is reporting that several sources around The Apprentice claim that when Marlee Matlin appeared on Celebrity Apprentice, Donald Trump often spoke to her as if she were dim-witted, asked others on the show if Matlin was “retarded,” and even mocked her openly.
“[Trump] would make fun of her voice. It actually sounded a lot like what he did [to] the New York Times guy,” another person who worked on The Apprenticefor years told The Daily Beast, referring to when Trump mocked a disabled reporter last year. The source said this incident occurred outside the boardroom, during a break from filming. “Like, to make it seem like she was mentally not there? [It] sounded like he got a real kick out of it. It was really upsetting.”
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