"I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It's not anything they can control."
The "laziness" statement came after Donald Trump started having financial difficulties at his casinos in Atlantic City. Trump's response? He had black accountants. And he managed to squeeze two forms of racism into a single statement.
John O'Donnell, who was president of the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino and later wrote a memoir about his experience, said Trump blamed financial difficulties partly on African American accountants.
"I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza — black guys counting my money!" O'Donnell's book quoted Trump as saying. "I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, I've got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It's not anything they can control."
Of course, Trump hasn't read O'Donnell's book, because Donald Trump doesn't read. But he did give an interview.
Trump told Playboy magazine that O'Donnell's memoir was "probably true.""
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