Donald Trumpās many appearances on Howard Sternās radio show are the fountain of filth that keeps on giving, providing valuable insight into the nomineeās character with every newly resurrected clip.
On Thursday, The Daily Beast reported that Trump had repeatedly described actress Marlee Matlin as āretardedā during her time on āThe Apprenticeā in Season 11. The Trump campaign has yet to comment on the claim, but Trump appears to have a history of calling people the R-word.
In a September 2004 visit to āThe Howard Stern Show,ā Trump called his golf instructor āmentally retardedā while recalling his salary negotiations with NBC for his reality show:
Trump: I said, well wait a minute, lets go a little further. My ratings are higher than āFriendsā now ā by a lot. And the other thing is itās an hour program. And āFriendsā as you know is a half-hour.
Stern: Thatās right.
Trump: And you know who told me that one? I have a golf pro whoās mentally retarded. I mean heās really not a smart guy. And Iām playing golf and Iām thinking about what Iām going to tell NBC, and this golf-pro comes up to me and he tells me, āYeah but your show is an hour and āFriendsā is a half-hour.ā
Trumpās use of this language appears to be habitual. In an earlier visit to Sternās show that April, Trump used the slur for an unnamed reporter who criticized his business skills.
Meanwhile, the clip also showcases his propensity for lying ā as āFriendsā averaged 22.8 million viewers during the 2003-2004 television season, while āThe Apprenticeā averaged only 20.7 million.
Editorās 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 ā 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ā from entering the U.S.