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Comedy legend Margaret Cho has recalled Trump's 'odd' insistence in having her join the cast of The Apprentice in an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail.
the host of The Apprentice, a reality show which saw a group of ambitious businessmen and women compete for a position at his company.
But Trump, 79, was apparently quite keen on having Cho, 57, join the cast and sought her out over the course of several years.
'It was just odd, because he really wouldn't let up over a couple of years, he really wanted me to do it,' she told The Daily Mail at the 2026 Queerties, where she was receiving the Icon Award.
Cho was dissuaded from being a cast member after she appeared on an actual episode to support her friend, singer , who was competing on The Celebrity Apprentice.
'And I just was like, I have bad feeling. I had gone on briefly for when my friend Cyndi Lauper had done The Apprentice,' she said.
Comedy icon Margaret Cho has recalled Donald Trump's 'odd' interest in wanting her to join the cast of The Apprentice
Before entering politics, Trump was a reality star who had a group of businessmen and women compete for his employment
'And so I went to visit her challenge in her diners, and it was just very stressful. I didn't want to put myself in that position. I had no idea who he was.
'I never really spent that much time in New York, and he's such a New York kind of person. Everybody knew, but I didn't really know.'
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Cho was dissuaded from joining the show when she visited her friend Cyndi Lauper on the set of The Apprentice, an experience she saw as very stressful
Cho previously revealed she was flabbergasted to be approached to support Trump's campaign; pictured January
'At the beginning of the campaign in 2016, Michael Cohen somehow got my email and was really begging me to become part of the campaign, and I'm like, "That's insane. I'm a lifelong Democrat."
