chicago for a trump hotel board meeting. we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood and trump said only the blacks could live like this. after the first few seasons of the apprentice he and trump were discussing past season winners. the conversation winded its way back to the show s first season which ended in a head-to-head between two contestants. trump was explaining his back and forth about not picking jackson, an african-american investment manager who graduated from harvard business school. there s no way i can let this black bleeping win. jackson told me he had heard the president made such a comment. my response to president trump is simple referring to the fictional african country where black panther hails from, not today, colonizer. it s a stunning list of things that cohen recalled the president saying. these are one on one conversations. this is cohen s recollection. i did go to the white house repeatedly asking for comment,