Donald Trump, who has come under fire for making lewd comments on women and passing it off as "locker room banter," used similar words when he fired a contestant on "The Celebrity Apprentice," a new footage reveals.
"The Daily Show" scrambled through archives of the NBC reality series to find a boardroom meeting in 2010 featuring a conversation between Trump and Maria Kanellis about fellow contestant Curtis Stone, an Australian chef.
The professional wrestler was not fond of the way Stone handled his visit to her team.
"The reason why I said you were so arrogant is because you came into our dressing room, and you took a crap, and left the stench in the room," she said.
After Stone termed the comment as "below the belt," Trump later asked Kanellis if she regretted her remarks. She responded, "I just said that I thought it was a little arrogant to come into our room and do that."
"It's a little gross, right?" Trump said. "Isn't it sort of gross to bringing that up? It's like disgusting. This is my boardroom. It's not a locker room. Maria, you're fired."
Last week, video tapes of Trump making sexually aggressive remarks about women surfaced, which raised an uproar.
In one of the tapes, Trump during a conversation with former Access Hollywood personality Billy Bush, said, "You know, I'm automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p****. You can do anything."
Trump later released a statement saying it was "locker room banter, a private conversation that took place many years ago."
He also released an apology video, saying, "I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not. I've said and done things I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize."
During Sunday's presidential debate, Trump clarified, "This was locker room talk. I'm not proud of it. I apologize to my family. I apologize to the American people. Certainly I'm not proud of it. But this is locker room talk."
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