Trump Discusses 'The N Word' On Fox News — And It's Not What You Think It Is

Donald Trump weighed successful connected the “N-word” connected Friday, and no, not the radical slur.

Trump, successful an interrogation with Fox News’ Bret Baier, was discussing caller developments successful the India-Pakistan conflict earlier bizarrely referring to the connection “nuclear” with a suggestive motion to the radical slur — a stunt helium erstwhile pulled at a 2022 rally and in pastinterviews connected the network.

“It was getting deeper and more, I mean, much missiles. Everyone was stronger, stronger, str — to a constituent wherever the adjacent one’s going to beryllium you cognize what, the N-word. You cognize what the N-word is, right?” Trump asked Baier.

“Nuclear,” said Baier portion looking astatine the floor.

“Yeah,” said Trump earlier cracking a grin and laughing.

“Thank you, convey you for the clarification,” replied Baier earlier smiling arsenic well.

“I figured you would privation to cleanable that up,” Trump remarked.

Trump continued to notation to atomic arsenic the “N-word,” adding that it’s a “very nasty word” successful “a batch of ways.”

“The N-word utilized successful a atomic sense,” helium said earlier turning backmost to speech of the conflict.

“That’s the worst happening that tin happen. And I deliberation they were precise close. The hatred was great.”

Trump’s caller comments get astir a twelvemonth aft helium faced renewed questions implicit his alleged usage of the radical slur connected the acceptable of “The Apprentice.”

Omarosa Manigault Newman, a erstwhile contestant connected the world amusement and an ex-White House adjutant successful Trump’s archetypal term, claimed connected a 2018 publication tour that she heard a signaling of the president utilizing the N-word connected the show.

Trump told reporters astatine the clip that Newman was a “lowlife.” Then, successful a station to X, formerly Twitter, helium stressed that determination were nary specified tapes of him utilizing “such a unspeakable and disgusting word.”

“I don’t person that connection successful my vocabulary, and ne'er have,” helium wrote.

Last May, erstwhile “Apprentice” producer Bill Pruitt claimed the aboriginal president utilized the radical slur portion discussing Kwame Jackson, a Black contestant connected the show.

Steven Cheung, then-Trump run spokesperson and now-White House communications director, said astatine the clip that the accusations were portion of a “completely fabricated and bullshit story.”

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