Donald Trump Called Deaf ‘Apprentice’ Marlee Matlin ‘Retarded’
Source: The Daily Beast
Just in case you thought Donald Trump was insufficiently awful: He repeatedly called a deaf actress retarded, three sources tell The Daily Beast.
Trump, who was accused on Wednesday of making sexual comments to Marlee Matlin, an Oscar-winning actress who once competed on Trumps Celebrity Apprentice, also apparently had a habit of insulting, mimicking, and demeaning as mentally handicapped his star female contestantall because she was deaf.
In 2011, Matlin, who is still the only deaf actor or actress to win an Academy Award for best actress, appeared on Trumps NBC reality-TV series. By the end of the season, she had come in second place and earned her fair share of compliments from Trump in the aired footage. But according to three longtime staffers who worked on Matlins season of Celebrity Apprentice, Trump would regularly disrespect the actress and would even treat her as if she were mentally disabled.
Sometimes the insults would be behind her back; other times they would be right in front of her.
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Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/13/donald-trump-called-deaf-apprentice-marlee-matlin-retarded.html
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Disgusted and angered. Not surprised.
I'm with Robert De Niro - I want to punch that Backpfeifengesicht right in the mouth.
I was born with club feet, that were fixed, mostly, by surgeries and casts when I was a kid, and I remember being bullied, teased, tripped in the school halls, because I walked funny.
Donald Trump is truly an evil, subhuman cockroach.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Trump is a total Backpfeifengesicht!
livetohike
(22,156 posts)piece of crap.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)ailsagirl
(22,898 posts)I still go with GROTESQUE
Cha
(297,467 posts)stupid.
livetohike
(22,156 posts)psychopathic
Cha
(297,467 posts)whathehell
(29,072 posts)I mean, you couldn't make this shit up...It's like he wasn't socialized properly as a child, or something, which is hard to believe,
for God's sake, it's standard socialization to teach kids, at an early age, how COMPLETELY unacceptable, how uncivilized it is to
:
mock the disabled or people's looks.
So strange..I remember my mother telling me, at the age of six or something, how wrong and cruel it was
to mock anyone for things they can't help, like a disability or less than beautiful looks.."People can't help how they look" She said it
in a very kind way, because she knew that this is just something children must be taught. .
What happened with his parents?
Does anyone know of some strange 'irregularities" with his early upbringing which would have excluded such basic socialization?
livetohike
(22,156 posts)child and the never loved him. There is definitely something wrong with his mental and emotional stability.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)This nazi needs to be stopped. It's that simple.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Someone had to make this up. You don't be on a show with a famous hearing-impaired person and not get the memo.
Rose Siding
(32,623 posts)Without it, we have yet another serious outrage. With it, we win an election more easily.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)HE DID IT IN FRONT OF HER? BECAUSE HE WAS ALL SMUG LIKE "She can't understand me so I can talk about her disrespectfully right in front of her face..."
Bibliovore
(185 posts)...that she can read lips. And she has a translator who accompanies her, and who is most certainly loyal to her and not to Trump.
Midnight Writer
(21,780 posts)This guy Trump just can't help himself from attack attack attacking even the most sympathetic victims.
This fool is so easy to bait that it is truly scary.
forest444
(5,902 posts)masmdu
(2,536 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,298 posts)EarlG's classic -
bucolic_frolic
(43,249 posts)incendiary device
Hekate
(90,768 posts)LisaM
(27,818 posts)The whole concept was mean, really mean, plus you had to be around him. I couldn't even watch the promos. Of course, I'm not excusing his behavior on any level, but I wouldn't want to get within 100 feet of the guy.
maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)People need an income
LiberalFighter
(51,019 posts)maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)I imagine she's getting barraged at this moment...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,800 posts)Trump requires this of almost everyone he deals with.
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Being demeaned, bullied,or sexually assaulted can't be included as part of the contract.
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maxsolomon
(33,360 posts)"I signed a NDA with NBC as a condition of my employment and cannot discuss my experiences working with Donald Trump".
Divine Discontent
(21,056 posts)position of harming our country because he has footage of Trump's filth and sat on it...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,175 posts)They've made a lot of dough together. Mark Burnett, he who produced The Bible series for History (?) Channel. And the devil is...an actor that looks eerily like Barack on a bad day, ten years in the future.
edit: So he's a true believer and will not surrender anything and is probably shredding everything he can at this moment.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Guess they can turn a blind eye when $$$$$ is involved.
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)...the time and temp sign on the bank down the street read Midnight/100 degrees.
Judi Lynn
(160,591 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)During the taping of the show, Trump would often scribble down notes while sitting at the table of the boardroomthe shows primary set. A person familiar with the notes who helped clean up after tapings said that on one of the pieces of paper, Trump wrote: Marlee, is she retarded??
He would write notes on his blotter, his papers in front of him, and he would scribble notes in it, a source described. It was usually just asinine things on them.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a thoroughly horrible person.
narnian60
(3,510 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)tiptonic
(765 posts)The scumbag is playing us all. He doesn't want to win. Just a greedy low life bully.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)They'll be along to voice their patented moral outrage and indignity at the use of that slur, presently.
elleng
(131,040 posts)lastlib
(23,263 posts)If he moves the bar any lower for disgusting, contemptible crudity, a piece of paper won't be able to slide under it. But he'll slither through somehow.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Attributed to Thaddeus Stevens: Donald Trump is living proof that some men are inferior.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I never thought I'd say that. He is an asshole and a stone cold sociopath.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)Romney was awful in so many ways, but this--this putrid embodiment of boorishness, arrogance, selfishness, anti-intellectualism, racism, and misogyny--this is far, far worse.
Cha
(297,467 posts)this. It seems surreal that we're talking about some perverted lech who is running for President.
I imagine this doesn't feel so good for Marlee to be reading about this now. I understand why people feel the need to speak out, though.
trump has already shown us who he is.. so these reports now are only confirming what he himself has said and shown us with his actions. That he's basically very stupid.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)who are fighting this kind of R crazy shit on the local or state level have had worse said about us. Thanks to Michelle O for her motto, "Go high when they go low." It's kept me very calm and even in the face of this kind of personal attack. The R's nearly always go low.
Gothmog
(145,475 posts)bellmartin
(218 posts)The many assault survivors coming forward have each made me further disgusted and sickened by Trump (which, it goes without saying by this time, takes some doing). We hear often of this sort of sexual assailant, though, although clearly most aren't as well known as he is.
It's another and I think rarer sort of sociopathy that leads even the most minimally functional adult to mock physical handicaps, even imputing mental deficiency to her.
When I read this one, I didn't even try to read it aloud to my wife, because I was too choked up. I just had to hand it to her and let her read it with horror herself.
There's a clear irony, too, because I'd be surprised if any of us here doubt that Ms. Matlin is a hundred times the person he is.
How is it possible that someone millions of people would still vote for as president is the worst human being so many of us even know of?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Lady_Chat
(561 posts)Sarah was very sensitive about anyone using the word "retarded" because of her youngest son. Wonder how she will react to this, would be very interesting to see.
liberalhistorian
(20,819 posts)who's often (almost daily) misunderstood and/or called names because of it, a hearty FUCK YOU to this motherfucking pool of slime. Matlin is an intelligent, kind, funny, multi-talented woman who should scrape Drumpf off her shoe like the dog shit that he is.