'FAUXBAMA'
Moment Trump ‘fires’ Obama lookalike in Apprentice parody vid after hiring double to mock his predecessor
DONALD Trump was filmed "firing" an Obama lookalike in an Apprentice parody video.
The president hired a 'fake Obama' for the clip, which his former fixer Michael Cohen claimed was purely to mock his predecessor.
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The clip was made as a joke for the Apprentice, the TV show Trump starred in, but in Cohen's explosive new memoir, he claims Trump had an obsessive hatred of - and often went on racists rants against black leaders.
In Disloyalty: A Memoir, said he felt and expressed his increasing concern about what he'd do if he is beaten by Joe in November.
In the book – out on September 8 – Cohen also quotes Trump as saying Obama only got into Columbia University and Harvard Law School because of "f***ing affirmative action," reported and the .
Affirmative Action is a policy in which someone's color, race, sex, religion or national origin are taken into account to increase opportunities for underrepresented minorities.
has denied Cohen's explosive accusations, telling the Post he was just "a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress."
'RITUALISTICALLY BELITTLE'
But Cohen, whose book is out on September 8, claimed Trump loathed Obama so much he hired a lookalike "Fauxbama" to "ritualistically belittle" the first black president and then fire him.
A still from the video shows the now president sitting at his Trump Tower desk in across from a man who is supposed to be Obama.
Two books, one with Obama's name on the front, sit on the desk in The Apprentice-style parody.
Reports indicate that it was supposed to be aired at the 2013 National Convention in Tampa that year, but GOP members deemed it to be too controversial.
But obtained the footage that saw Trump slam Obama's presidential record, his business knowledge, and even his golf game.
“It looks like you’ve never really managed people before,” Trump said. “You’ve never run a business. Who hired you?”
The exchange culminated in reality star-turned-POTUS telling Fauxbama "you're fired."
"They never put it on," Trump later told Breitbart. "The reason they didn't put it on is because they thought it was too controversial. Controversy. It might not be politically correct."
Cohen claimed that Trump went on several racist rants in his book, claiming he said "tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a s***hole. They are all complete f***ing toilets."
Mandela f***ed the whole country up,
Trump said, according to Cohen
"I will never get the Hispanic vote," Trump is quoted as saying. "Like the blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump."
Cohen alleged that Trump also had a particular dislike for the South African leader Nelson Mandela and praised the Apartheid regime.
"Mandela f***ed the whole country up," he supposedly said, according to Cohen. "Now it's a s***hole. F*** Mandela. He was no leader."
In the book, Cohen's assessment of his former boss's character is withering, and he describes him as "a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man."
Cohen once vowed that he would "take a bullet" for his boss – but in the foreword of his book, he revealed Trump's "mob boss" mentality.
"Apart from his wife and children, I knew Trump better than anyone else did," Cohen wrote, taking credit for Trump's decision to run in 2015.
The Trump administration has repeatedly rubbished Cohen's allegations, telling the Post "he has lost all credibility, and it's unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies."
EXPLOSIVE MEMOIR
But Cohen insisted he knew "the real real Donald Trump—the man very, very, very few people know."
"Not the billionaire celebrity savior of the country or lying lunatic, not the tabloid tycoon or self-anointed Chosen One, not the avatar @realdonaldtrump of Twitter fame," he wrote.
The first part of the book was published on Thursday afternoon.
"He has no one he trusts to keep his secrets," it reads. "For ten years, he certainly had me, and I was always there for him, and look what happened to me."
Cohen, who acted as Trump's lawyer from 2006 to 2018, is currently under house arrest in .
He was disbarred and got three years in prison for campaign-finance crimes related to his work for Trump.
He will serve the rest of his term from home and is due for release in November 2021.
Cohen's book also references a few of his own startling wrongdoings related to his case.
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"I stiffed contractors on his behalf, ripped off his business partners, lied to his wife Melania to hide his sexual infidelities, and bullied and screamed at anyone who threatened Trump's path to power," Cohen wrote.
"From golden showers in a sex club in Vegas, to tax fraud, to deals with corrupt officials from the former Soviet Union, to catch and kill conspiracies to silence Trump's clandestine lovers, I wasn't just a witness to the president's rise—I was an active and eager participant."
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