Donald Trump reportedly tried to get bisexual comedienne Margaret Cho to appear on his reality show, The Celebrity Apprentice, and also to campaign for his 2016 presidential campaign, Cho said in a recent interview.

“I was asked several times to be on [The Celebrity Apprentice], season after season, and they kept saying, ‘Well, Donald Trump really loves you. Please come on,’ and I just had a bad feeling about it,” she said during a recent episode of Radio Andy’s The Julia Cunningham Show, hosted by the broadcast’s titular entertainment interviewer.

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Cho explained that she assisted with one of the show’s challenges at a diner during its 2010 season, but only because her friend, LGBTQ+ advocate and pop star Cyndi Lauper, was competing. However, Cho herself was never a contestant on the show.

The comedienne then shared that, at the start of Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, Trump’s then-personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, “somehow got my email and was really begging me to become part of the campaign.”

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“I’m like, ‘That’s insane,'” she told Cunningham. “I’m a lifelong Democrat. Why would I back somebody that I didn’t know anything about?”

That same year, Cohen helped arrange hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult actress with whom Trump allegedly had an extramarital affair. Trump and Cohen’s relationship eventually deteriorated during his first presidency. Cohen would eventually testify that he had committed campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lied to Congress to benefit Trump.

Cho is a bisexual Korean American who was one of the first commercially successful Asian American female comedians. She gained fame through the 1994 ABC sitcom All American Girl, which was loosely based on her young experiences in San Francisco. Her 2021 memoir and one-woman show, I’m the One That I Want, discussed racism and misogyny in the entertainment industry that fueled her body image issues and drug addictions.

She has performed in 43 films, 56 TV shows, eight solo comedy specials, and is a steadfast LGBTQ+ activist who has fundraised for the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, and PFLAG.

When Trump fired now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last month, Cho released a Facebook video telling Noem to “flake that crusty puss somewhere else, girl,” and calling Trump an “orange monstrosity,” a reference to his conspicuously spray-tanned skin.

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