Richard Hatch, winner of the debut season of “Survivor,” highlighted why he doesn’t like Donald Trump and his “100% selfish” ways so much after his time competing on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

Hatch, who was on the fourth season of the Trump-hosted show, told Tim Murphy’s The Caftan Chronicles that he spent “a lot of time” with Trump and knew Trump for three years before joining the NBC reality competition.

“He’s probably the worst human being I’ve ever met in my life,” said Hatch, who once accused Trump of making “sexual comments” to “all the female” competitors, and in front of his daughter Ivanka Trump, during the 2011 season. (Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign called Hatch’s accusation “completely false” at the time.)

When Hatch was asked what Trump was like “one on one,” he described him as “grotesquely manipulative.”

“It’s about what you can get out of any situation,” he explained.

“I would stare at him and watch him use the room for his desperate need for attention, and how he would read people, talk to this person and then turn around and move it on to the next person. It’s really horrible.”

Richard Hatch, seen here, rests in a hammock during the first season of
Richard Hatch, seen here, rests in a hammock during the first season of “Survivor.” Hatch ultimately won the contest and received $1 million. In 2006, he was sentenced to 51 months in prison after failing to report, in part, his earnings on the show. He later appeared on “The Celebrity Apprentice.”

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Trump has faced a series of accusations over his behavior on the NBC show and its predecessor, “The Apprentice,” over the years. He has also been accused of using the N-word on camera to refer to “The Apprentice” runner-up from its 2004 season, Kwame Jackson.

Jackson told CNN’s Abby Phillip in 2024 that the president never used the N-word to his face, but did not dispute the possibility that he could have said it, noting that “I never knew Mr. Trump was comfortable around black people.”

A Trump spokesperson responded to allegations that the president used the racist slur, calling it “a completely made-up, bullshit story” in a 2024 statement.

Former members of “The Apprentice” team also accused the president of openly commenting on women’s bodies and the size of their breasts.

The president once claimed in his 2004 book “How to Get Rich” that all the women on the show flirted with him “consciously or unconsciously.”

“That’s to be expected. There is always a sexual dynamic present between people, unless you are asexual,” she wrote at the time.

NBC fired Trump in 2015 for his anti-immigrant rhetoric during the election campaign. The network, which attempted to replace the president with former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as host of “The New Celebrity Apprentice” in 2017, effectively pulled the plug on all versions of the show.