Howard Stern Interviews Donald Trump 2004 09 23

[0:00] Hold on to you all these years. [0:01] She's got to be doing something special. [0:03] What's her secret? [0:04] Well, she is terrific in bed. [0:05] Now, she wouldn't want me to say that, but she is. [0:07] Is it the amount of positions she knows? [0:08] Or is it the oral? [0:10] What is it? [0:10] Well, you know, she's just overall terrific. [0:13] Interns, I understand I've gotten word, [0:33] got completely dolled up in like a schoolgirl outfit today [0:36] because I heard Donald Trump was coming on [0:38] and she wants to be the one who gets to go in the green room [0:41] and have him sign his release. [0:43] Really? [0:44] She's that into Donald? [0:46] I wonder what she's thinking. [0:47] Maybe if he sees her, she'll get a job. [0:49] What is the schoolgirl outfit? [0:50] Does Donald into underage girls or something? [0:53] I don't know. [0:53] What's she trying to say here? [0:56] Introduce yourself to the audience, please. [0:58] Yeah, there's a schoolgirl outfit. [0:59] Yeah, there it is. [1:00] Beautiful intern. [1:01] Introduce yourself to everyone. [1:02] Hi, Howard. I'm Jennifer. [1:03] This is Jennifer. [1:04] Jennifer, you're a college student, right? [1:06] Yes, a graduate student. [1:07] All right. [1:08] A graduate student. [1:09] Good. [1:09] What? [1:10] And what are you graduating in? [1:12] Journalism. [1:13] Journalism. [1:14] So what was your thought here? [1:15] I mean, I know you're anxious to hand Mr. Trump his release. [1:19] You've requested to do that, and I have no problem with that. [1:21] You can, I mean, he likes a pretty girl. [1:24] But the schoolgirl outfit, what are you thinking could happen if Trump sees you? [1:27] It's just cute. [1:29] What? [1:29] It's just cute. [1:30] No, I mean, what do you think? [1:31] I mean, why Trump? [1:31] Well, you wore that specifically for him. [1:34] You were thinking about meeting Mr. Trump today. [1:36] Who said that? [1:36] Oh, no? [1:37] Uh-uh. [1:37] Oh. [1:38] I guess I thought you were requesting to meet Mr. Trump. [1:41] Oh, I did. [1:42] Oh, you did? [1:42] I did request to do his release. [1:45] Well, I can't hear you. [1:45] What? [1:45] I did request to hand him his release. [1:48] Yes. [1:48] Well, why? [1:50] Because I think he's brilliant. [1:51] Oh, so in other words, by handing him his release, maybe something will go on? [1:57] No. [1:57] Job? [1:58] That would be nice. [1:59] That would be nice. [2:00] All right. [2:00] I'm just trying to figure it out. [2:02] That's all. [2:03] Yes, Gary? [2:04] I mean, that's definitely a little bit sexier outfit than you usually wear. [2:07] It does appear that, you know, you got a little dressed up for the Donald. [2:10] Is that true? [2:12] Don't I always dress cute? [2:14] Cute, but this is a little sexy. [2:15] Oh, it's sexy? [2:16] You're always cute. [2:18] Oh, all right. [2:19] I thought there was some controversy. [2:20] Not even controversy. [2:21] I just thought there was a plan afoot. [2:23] I have no problem with you, by the way. [2:24] She's got her man trapping outfit. [2:26] Yeah, it's fine. [2:27] I'm not criticizing. [2:29] I just want to know what the plan is here. [2:30] Maybe I can help you with it. [2:31] And that's setting a trap right there. [2:35] That's definitely a trap. [2:36] Oh, yeah. [2:37] Where is the Donald? [2:38] Is he here yet? [2:38] He's running a little later. [2:39] Oh, he's running late. [2:40] Oh, well, is that how he handles his business? [2:44] He's fired. [2:45] Yeah, okay. [2:46] All right. [2:46] No, it wasn't a criticism. [2:47] It was just like, I'm trying to figure out what's going on. [2:49] Like, maybe you got a plan. [2:50] Yeah, there was some thought behind the outfit and everything. [2:53] Maybe you could include me in that plan. [2:55] Yeah, we encourage. [2:55] You didn't dress like this for you. [2:57] We encourage these outfits, in other words. [2:59] It's fine, though. [3:00] The outfit's fine. [3:00] You like the outfit already? [3:01] Yeah, very nice. [3:02] Yeah, you look good. [3:02] You know, it's funny. [3:03] You know, Jennifer works here. [3:04] She does her job. [3:05] She's very quiet. [3:06] You know, she does a lot of copying and stuff all the time. [3:09] And I love watching her walk down the halls and watching all the heads come out of the [3:12] doors and people suddenly have business near her, that sort of thing. [3:16] Oh, that's right. [3:16] Creating a bit of a scene, are you? [3:18] I'm quiet, though. [3:19] I keep to myself here. [3:20] I mean, she's not trying to create one. [3:21] Guys hitting on you here, or are they leaving you alone? [3:23] Not yet. [3:24] All right, that's good. [3:25] I'm not outside when I was, before I came in, in the afternoon, but. [3:29] But everyone else is leaving you alone. [3:29] So far, everybody inside is being professional. [3:31] Yeah. [3:32] All right, thank you, then. [3:33] Thank you. [3:33] All right, good luck with Donald Trump handing him his release form. [3:36] Thank you. [3:36] All right, let us know how it goes. [3:37] Okay. [3:38] There she goes. [3:39] Hard-working girl. [3:41] Just trying to get along in the world. [3:43] Future winner of the interim beauty pageant. [3:46] Possibly. [3:46] I don't know. [3:47] She's got a chance. [3:47] She's got a lot of competition. [3:49] There it is. [3:49] It's a big semester here. [3:51] What do you want to sign, Jennifer? [3:53] Okay. [3:54] Can I use your back? [3:55] I love this. [3:57] This is fun. [3:59] Using Jennifer's back to sign her release. [4:04] I could do this all day long. [4:06] Thank you, Jennifer. [4:07] Thank you, Mr. Trump. [4:09] So, how was it? [4:09] You got to have Mr. Trump sign the release? [4:12] He signed it right back. [4:13] And how did it feel? [4:14] Amazing. [4:15] How did he look to you? [4:16] He looked awesome. [4:17] Really? [4:17] Yeah. [4:18] I think he liked the outfit. [4:19] You think he did? [4:20] Yeah. [4:21] All right. [4:21] Now, what do you hope to get out of this today? [4:22] It's just the thing I got to meet Donald Trump. [4:27] So, Mr. Trump, what brings you down to the show today? [4:30] Howard. [4:30] Always Howard. [4:32] Now, what is it about Howard that you like? [4:33] Because you two seem to get along so well. [4:35] I just like Howard. [4:36] From day one, I've liked Howard. [4:38] He's a good man. [4:39] Donald Trump is here. [4:41] Yeah. [4:41] Old friend of the show. [4:43] Big star. [4:44] Big star. [4:45] Big TV star. [4:47] Reality television has spawned a whole new race of stars. [4:51] You got Paris Hilton, Donald Trump, people whose everyday lives are more... [4:56] The survivor people, yeah. [4:57] Who everyday lives are more interesting than really what any Hollywood writer could create. [5:02] That's what it seems. [5:03] Donald Trump has captured the public's imagination yet again. [5:06] There he is. [5:07] A real TV star. [5:09] Number one guy. [5:10] Number one guy. [5:12] There you go. [5:13] You're saying something, but we can't hear him. [5:14] Who can hear? [5:15] Wait, get in front of the microphone so we can hear what you're saying. [5:18] Sounds important, though. [5:20] Everything he says must be important. [5:21] How are you? [5:22] I'm very well. [5:23] How are you? [5:23] I'm very good. [5:24] Thank you. [5:25] Mr. Trump, I was very proud of you. [5:26] I see you on a lot of shows talking about the fact that the war in Iraq is going horribly wrong. [5:31] A lot of people, especially in your position, a wealthy guy who could do very well with the Bush administration, [5:37] you're speaking out because you care that people are dying over there, young people, and perhaps for nothing. [5:44] Well, it's a horror. [5:45] I mean, the war is a total disaster. [5:47] It seems to me to be almost worse than Vietnam. [5:50] I was thinking the other day. [5:51] And I happen to like the Bush policies on taxation. [5:53] I really believe in them. [5:54] And not just because you pay less. [5:56] The fact is you have more incentive to do things. [5:58] And I think it's good. [5:59] It puts people to work. [6:00] But the war is a total catastrophe. [6:02] And if anything brings him down, that's going to bring him down. [6:04] That and perhaps you and the FCC. [6:06] By the way, did Mr. Trump meet our intern and was he impressed? [6:09] Your intern is very pretty. [6:11] Yeah, she wants you. [6:11] She was dying to meet you. [6:13] Is oral sex important to you? [6:16] Womp, womp, womp, womp, womp, womp. [6:21] That was a high-pitcheric. [6:23] This fiancée of yours, Melania, she must be terrific in bed. [6:32] Because for her to hold on to you all these years, she's got to be doing something special. [6:36] What's her secret? [6:37] Well, she is terrific in bed. [6:39] Now, she wouldn't want me to say that, but she is. [6:40] Is it the amount of positions she knows? [6:42] Or is it the oral? [6:43] What is it? [6:44] Well, you know, she's just overall terrific. [6:46] I think most important. [6:47] Let me ask you this, and with all due respect. [6:49] But is he going to get married? [6:50] I mean, is she going to be the perennial fiancée? [6:53] He's going to get married. [6:54] No. [6:54] When are you getting married? [6:56] Well, sometime early next year, probably. [6:58] You set a date? [6:59] No, we haven't set a date. [7:01] Are you playing her, or are you really going to marry her? [7:03] No, I'm really going to. [7:04] I don't have the courage to play her. [7:05] But your prenup, is it going to be like Britney Spears? [7:07] She gets $300,000 a year for every year that she's with you, or is it going to be less? [7:11] We're going to have a prenup. [7:12] You have to have a prenup. [7:13] Have you started working on it yet? [7:14] There's too many books, Robin, about prenups not to have one. [7:16] I say you have to. [7:17] You have to be protected. [7:18] No, I have men that are destroyed. [7:18] I have friends that are very smart, killer people, that people are afraid to even deal [7:23] with them, and yet a wife, 5'2", 100 pounds, destroys them. [7:27] Me too. [7:28] I know guys who I have known for years, and they get married and don't sign a prenup. [7:33] They're afraid to ask their women for a prenup. [7:35] I was just reading in the paper that one of the Gottis is having problems with his wife. [7:40] I said, the only people who are not afraid of mobsters seems to be the wise. [7:43] I mean, I've seen that many times. [7:47] Explain to me. [7:48] You're a good judge of human character. [7:49] Why is a man afraid to ask for a prenup? [7:52] I mean, you will say to Melania, how do you do it? [7:54] Well, it's a very tough thing. [7:55] Actually, you know, doing business deals is sort of natural and easy as far as I'm concerned. [7:59] Doing prenups is a whole different deal. [8:01] Because it's emotional. [8:01] You're in love with someone. [8:03] You go up to her. [8:03] You tell her how in love you are. [8:05] Or, you know, in the case, Melania, I love you very much. [8:08] You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. [8:10] Gorgeous. [8:10] And we're going to be together forever. [8:11] But just in case it doesn't work out, would you please immediately sign this? [8:15] So it's not a, you know, it's an unattractive instrument. [8:18] But wait a second. [8:19] If Melania says to you, all right, what do you propose? [8:22] And you'd probably say, okay, talk to my accountant. [8:24] He's got a proposal for you, right? [8:25] You're not going to get into the nitty-gritty with her, are you? [8:27] I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty. [8:29] And do you tell her to get a lawyer? [8:31] You have to have a lawyer. [8:32] If she doesn't have a lawyer, which, of course, is a disaster because all of a sudden she'll show up with this killer. [8:36] But if she doesn't have a lawyer, you know, it doesn't hold up. [8:40] So you sit down and you say, okay, Melania, we'll give you $300,000 a year for every year you're with me. [8:45] If we should have kids, you get a bonus. [8:48] What do you pay for a kid? [8:49] What do you pay for a kid? [8:50] Give me a ballpark. [8:51] I'll give them whatever they want. [8:52] Right. [8:53] So, and then she comes back and says, not enough. [8:57] Right. [8:57] Is that a signal to head for the hills? [8:59] Well, it's two ways. [9:00] You know, there are women that won't sign prenup and they have good intentions. [9:04] Right. [9:04] And there are women that won't sign prenups and they have bad intentions. [9:07] Now, I know a woman who's totally in love with the guy. [9:09] She refuses to sign. [9:10] She said, our marriage is more than that. [9:12] I honestly don't believe she's trying to rip him off. [9:15] Okay. [9:15] She just feels that it's a horrible thing. [9:18] I don't think my mother... [9:18] Should the guy marry her now? [9:19] My father, many, many years ago, he was 93 when he passed away. [9:24] Many years ago, he had a 63-year marriage to a wonderful woman named my mother. [9:28] Right. [9:29] Okay. [9:29] Yes. [9:30] And I heard that he asked her for a prenup. [9:32] Can you believe this? [9:33] This is like, you know... [9:34] He did. [9:34] Yeah. [9:34] He was way ahead of his time. [9:35] This is like 70 years ago. [9:36] He asked her for a prenup? [9:37] The guy was... [9:37] Well, he was great. [9:38] He was ahead of his time and he asked her for a prenup and she threw him out of the house. [9:41] She said, well, they actually didn't even throw him out of the house because they didn't [9:44] live together for those days. [9:45] In those days, you get married and then you move in together. [9:48] But he actually asked her for a prenup and she went inside. [9:51] She had good intentions. [9:52] So, you haven't begun the negotiation with Melania yet? [9:54] I haven't actually begun that negotiation. [9:56] Right, but she's picked out her lawyer and then that will begin. [9:58] No, she hasn't even picked out a lawyer. [10:00] But I admire this because, quite frankly, the marriage laws are somewhat archaic. [10:04] A guy like you, you've built up wealth. [10:06] You've worked hard. [10:06] I see you hustle every day. [10:08] No reason just because you fell in love and then out of love, you should have to give up [10:11] all your money. [10:12] You don't want her to be destitute if you should leave. [10:14] For sure you do. [10:15] Why not? [10:16] Let him miss you. [10:17] I have a friend who's a total, brutal killer. [10:21] Go ahead. [10:22] He just kills everyone. [10:24] He's a very rich guy and he's had a couple of horrible marriages. [10:28] Right. [10:28] So now he meets a new woman and he tells me, Donald, this is the one. [10:33] Now, his last one ripped him off for about 50. [10:35] Right. [10:36] 50 million. [10:37] Not 50 big ones. [10:38] The last one. [10:39] I mean, you know, she was married to him for two years. [10:41] She made him dinner every once in a while. [10:43] Right. [10:43] And then she gets 50 million dollars. [10:44] 50 million? [10:46] Who is that guy? [10:46] I want to meet him. [10:47] Let Robin meet him. [10:48] So now he calls me. [10:50] He said, Donald, I've met the one. [10:52] Of course, he's told me this now four times. [10:54] How stupid. [10:55] So I said, you're going to get a prenup, right? [10:58] He said, Don, honestly, I don't need it. [11:01] This is one. [11:03] Now, here's a guy who's a genius businessman, but he's a schmuck. [11:06] Barracuda. [11:06] What happens to guys at home? [11:08] Well, what happened, Robin, he married her two years ago. [11:12] And about a week and a half ago, he told me, I said, How's she doing? [11:15] That son of a bitch. [11:16] I'll get her. [11:17] The guy probably isn't going to lay it in a month. [11:19] It's over already. [11:20] It's over already. [11:21] So I said, By the way, tell me yes. [11:23] Tell me you had a prenup. [11:24] He said, I don't. [11:25] I have to go through it again. [11:27] So it's murder. [11:27] Oh, my God. [11:29] She's got one of the greatest bodies ever. [11:32] It's beautiful. [11:32] But what about the face? [11:33] Honestly, Robin. [11:34] All right, bodies attend. [11:35] What's the face? [11:36] Well, you never get to the face. [11:37] Oh, my God. [11:39] Let's go back to you and Melania, though, for one second, before we move on to The Apprentice. [11:47] So you're going to get married, and this woman has captivated you. [11:51] I mean, it's not easy because she is capturing your heart, and you've got a lot of options. [11:57] I have a lot of options. [11:58] Well, yes, she must be something really special because you had the pick of everybody. [12:02] A friend of mine said to me, I know a guy gets a lot of poontang, not as much as Mr. Trump, but a lot of poontang. [12:08] And he says to me, I'm getting married. [12:10] I go, what are you, crazy? [12:11] He says, every morning I wake up, he's giving me oral. [12:16] I said, then I understand. [12:19] She might be the biggest pain in the ass, but I understand. [12:21] You know, the National Enquirer, Howard, did a story on me not so long ago that in the history of the world, nobody has gotten more beautiful women than I have. [12:32] Which is a great compliment. [12:33] In fact, many years ago, I was on your show, and you were putting all of them up in posters. [12:37] Remember? [12:37] Yeah, I had a chart. [12:38] How was this one? [12:39] How was that one? [12:40] By the way, I'm sure I missed thousands. [12:43] You missed a lot. [12:43] I did. [12:44] Actually, some of the ones on the chart were not victims. [12:46] Understood. [12:47] But you missed quite a few, but that's okay. [12:49] So that was a great compliment. [12:51] So Melania must have something. [12:53] And you know what it is? [12:54] I believe in the woman behind the man, and the man behind the woman, but I believe in the woman behind the man. [12:59] I mean, I think women don't get enough credit. [13:00] I've never done it with the woman behind me, but go ahead. [13:02] If you think, take a look at Andre Agassi. [13:05] He's with Brooke Shields. [13:06] Disaster. [13:07] Life is a mess, right? [13:08] He was the number one player in the world. [13:09] He meets Brooke Shields, falls in love, marries. [13:11] He goes to 292 players. [13:12] You know about that. [13:13] She ruined him. [13:14] I watched him play at the U.S. Open three years ago. [13:16] Was that brilliant? [13:16] Yeah. [13:17] Three years ago, he got wiped out on the first round. [13:18] He didn't even get a point. [13:19] It was terrible. [13:20] Right. [13:20] I said, isn't it sad he's gotten old? [13:22] Right. [13:22] All of a sudden, he meets Steffi Graff. [13:24] Now he's great. [13:25] He's the number one player in the world. [13:27] I mean, he's... [13:27] But would you want to stay home with Steffi Graff? [13:29] Well, you know, Steffi Graff... [13:30] She's probably motivated now. [13:30] No, no. [13:31] Steffi Graff is a great girl, and she's one of the greatest... [13:33] She's not hot, though. [13:33] She's got one of the greatest bodies ever. [13:35] She's beautiful. [13:35] But what about the face? [13:36] Honestly, Robin. [13:37] All right, body's a 10. [13:38] What's the face? [13:39] Well, you never get to the face because the body's so... [13:41] You wouldn't go out with Steffi Graff. [13:44] She's not hot enough for you. [13:44] Well, you know, it doesn't matter. [13:45] The point is that he... [13:47] But you're avoiding the question about Melania. [13:48] Yes. [13:49] Here's what happened. [13:49] Is it a sexual... [13:50] I mean, did she put out like never before? [13:52] Well, it's everything. [13:53] It's not sexual. [13:54] It's friendship. [13:55] It's sexual. [13:55] Is it the oral? [13:56] It's everything. [13:56] The guy's always loved... [13:57] Are you an oral guy? [13:58] You know what, Howard? [13:59] I'm not a big fan of that. [14:00] This show is always a disaster. [14:01] You're in a corner now. [14:02] Answer the question. [14:03] Listen, Robin. [14:04] Other than the fact that this guy's a friend of mine, this show's always a disaster. [14:07] He's straight with him. [14:07] The last time, Howard said... [14:10] Everything gets really... [14:11] Like, I always get in trouble on this show. [14:13] And I try and be as nice as I can. [14:15] I try and avoid his crazy questions. [14:18] But you might have been open. [14:19] Let me tell you last time. [14:20] Yeah. [14:20] Howard said very clearly, does Melania have cellulite? [14:25] Now, Melania is one of the greatest bodies I've ever seen. [14:27] I've seen it up close. [14:28] It's one of the greats. [14:29] Yeah. [14:30] Does she have cellulite? [14:30] And I said, Melania doesn't even know what the word cellulite means. [14:34] Now, I said that very clearly. [14:36] That's very nice. [14:36] I thought that was wonderful. [14:36] Just a throwaway. [14:37] One of the newspapers in New York did a whole big story on the fact that Melania doesn't know [14:41] what cellulite is. [14:42] Like she's stupid or something. [14:42] Like she's a dummy. [14:43] Oh, no. [14:44] And this is not a dummy. [14:45] So I get killed. [14:46] So almost no matter what you say on the show, when they analyze everything I've said today, [14:50] I'm sure there are four or five things run bad. [14:52] Let me write it a different way. [14:53] Is oral sex important to you? [14:54] Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. [14:58] That was a high-pitched Eric. [15:00] Seriously, it's man to man. [15:01] And I've had this discussion with many men. [15:03] No, it's not important to me. [15:05] It's not. [15:05] You had Kylie Bax on this show. [15:07] That's a piece of ass I could not do. [15:08] Yeah, that's right. [15:09] And she was a friend of mine. [15:11] Did you do her? [15:11] Be honest. [15:12] I don't want to tell you. [15:13] It was the single worst performance I've ever seen. [15:18] You like to have anal sex? [15:19] Yeah. [15:20] No kidding. [15:20] No, I'm kidding. [15:21] You like that? [15:21] Yeah. [15:21] You like that? [15:23] Yeah. [15:23] Wow, good answer. [15:25] Did you just ask that one more time? [15:27] Yeah. [15:27] You like to have anal sex? [15:28] Yeah. [15:29] I mean, I think you destroyed her in this show when she said she liked the anal and this [15:34] and that. [15:35] You're not into anal. [15:36] Did you do that? [15:36] No, I'm not into anal. [15:37] No, I didn't do that with them. [15:39] You got Kylie Bax, you son of a bitch. [15:40] No, I didn't say that. [15:41] I want that. [15:42] But she was a friend of mine and she was a nice girl. [15:45] And all of a sudden I see her in the show talking about anal and this and Marcus. [15:48] She took a calculated risk. [15:50] It was wrong. [15:50] It was on the other night. [15:51] That's right. [15:51] You played it. [15:52] They played it on E. [15:52] Yeah, and you don't see her anymore, do you? [15:54] It ruined her. [15:55] No, it was like, I can't believe this. [15:57] She took one for the team. [15:59] So she gave you some really bad answers. [16:02] Yes, yes. [16:04] So they pay six people, $2 million a piece for a half hour show. [16:09] I'm one person and I have an hour show and I have higher ratings than they do. [16:13] And you don't even have to have writers. [16:14] Well, when I told them, I said, so I should be paid $24 million and not the same. [16:18] Talk to me about what's going on now with The Apprentice. [16:26] You now have three guys. [16:29] You were the original, but you have two other guys, I should say, who are attempting to steal [16:34] your thunder. [16:34] One of them came in here the other day, Mark Cuban, billionaire. [16:37] Billionaire, he's got a show on now that's very similar to The Apprentice. [16:41] Benefactor. [16:42] With no ratings. [16:43] With no ratings. [16:44] Right. [16:44] Doing very badly. [16:45] And then you got this other guy coming out, the other billionaire. [16:48] Who's that? [16:49] Richard Branson. [16:49] Richard Branson. [16:50] He's actually a good guy. [16:51] I think that show has a better shot. [16:52] Here's what happened. [16:53] The virgin guy. [16:53] We have a show. [16:55] Did you see the ratings this week? [16:56] Yes. [16:57] What was it rated? [16:58] You were number one. [16:58] We were the number one show. [17:00] Right. [17:00] And in fact, the New York Times did a front page story this Sunday that The Apprentice was not [17:05] only number one, it was number one since May. [17:07] In other words, it's the number one show since May, the last Thursday. [17:10] Gary Bababoo, who's a big fan of your show, says that the 90-minute format, too long, he [17:14] loves it, but he'd rather see an hour. [17:16] What do you think of that? [17:17] What they did is they opened to 90 minutes only for one reason, because it gets good ratings. [17:21] Right. [17:22] And it did phenomenally. [17:23] And frankly, they would like to have it on for two hours. [17:26] You know, on Saturday night, they put a two-hour version on, and Saturday night is [17:30] the biggest Saturday night that NBC has had in over a year. [17:32] So with that kind of clout, you pressured... [17:37] NBC into paying you more money, did you not? [17:40] I did. [17:40] All right. [17:40] So now you're getting what? [17:41] A million an episode? [17:43] Much more than that, but let me tell you... [17:45] More than a million? [17:45] Is that true? [17:46] Yes. [17:47] Listen, how it is... [17:47] How is that, Donald? [17:48] Let me tell you why. [17:50] Did you see... [17:50] Robin, let me tell you why. [17:51] Robin, let me tell you the economics, and then you'll understand. [17:54] You're saying you're getting Schwimmer money? [17:56] I'm getting good money. [17:57] But you know what? [17:57] NBC, Jeff Zucker is so smart, and so tough, and so good, that it's very hard to get money [18:02] from him. [18:02] No, no, no. [18:03] I'm saying a million dollars to pay you a million dollars. [18:05] That's not a lot of money, considering what they get in advertising. [18:08] They're going to make a billion dollars. [18:10] And they will... [18:10] But he didn't get a million. [18:12] Go on and tell us. [18:12] Okay, let me explain. [18:13] Let me explain what happened. [18:15] I signed the first one. [18:16] Everyone thought it would be off, and you know, it would do fine. [18:18] It would maybe get a couple... [18:18] And you know, then Trump goes back to building buildings in Manhattan and having a lot of fun. [18:22] And having a good life, yes. [18:23] And you know, it's good, it's fine. [18:24] And they paid me peanuts. [18:26] Okay. [18:27] But the show went to number one. [18:28] Right. [18:28] And now they said, please, we beg you, let's do more. [18:32] This is very, very good. [18:33] So this was a little bit of a surprise. [18:35] It opened strong. [18:36] It opened at number 10. [18:37] It went to eight and five and four. [18:39] It became very popular. [18:40] And one. [18:41] And the last show, you know, the live show, was 41.5 million people watched. [18:46] The Super Bowl beat it. [18:47] Okay, that was it. [18:48] Right. [18:49] It was this monster show. [18:50] So, you know, people drop to their knees and they say, please, let's do more. [18:53] So you said, I want more money. [18:55] Now, here's what happened. [18:56] I said, I'll do more. [18:58] I read an article where the Friends people get $2 million an episode. [19:01] Right, Rob? [19:02] Right. [19:02] So I said to Jeff Zucker and everybody at NBC, I'll do it, but I want Friends-type money. [19:09] Right. [19:09] I think that's reasonable. [19:10] Right. [19:11] And they said, well, maybe we can work something like that out. [19:14] And he said, they said, they get $2 million an episode. [19:17] I said, no, no, no. [19:19] There's six of them. [19:20] Right. [19:21] That get $2 million an episode. [19:22] There's one of you. [19:23] And there's one of me. [19:24] You want $12 million an episode. [19:26] And then I said, so there's six of them, so that's 12. [19:28] Right. [19:28] I'm thinking like Howard thinks, because I hear he has one of the great contracts in history. [19:33] Oh, yeah. [19:34] I'm rolling. [19:34] Then I said, they said, well, that's ridiculous. [19:37] How dare you suggest that? [19:38] Then I said, well, wait a minute. [19:40] Let's go a little further. [19:41] My ratings are higher than Friends now, by a lot. [19:44] And the other thing is, it's an hour program. [19:47] And Friends, as you know, is a half hour. [19:49] That's right. [19:49] And you know who told me that one? [19:51] I have a golf pro who's mentally retired. [19:52] I mean, he's like really not a smart guy. [19:54] Right. [19:55] Right. [19:55] And I'm playing golf, and I'm thinking about what I'm going to tell NBC. [19:58] And this golf pro comes up to me, and he tells me, yeah, but your show's an hour, and Friends [20:02] is a half hour. [20:02] He's obviously a Friends watcher. [20:03] And there are six people they pay. [20:05] So they pay six people, $2 million apiece, for a half hour show. [20:09] I'm one person, and I have an hour show, and I have higher ratings than they do. [20:13] And you don't even have to have writers. [20:15] I'm saying, I bet the production costs of your show are less. [20:18] Well, when I told them, I said, so I should be paid $24 million an episode. [20:21] I didn't get it. [20:22] You didn't get $24 million. [20:24] You can see Donald Trump on The Apprentice tonight at 9 o'clock on NBC. [20:26] Very controversial show. [20:28] You fired a guy last week after the guy said, I give up my immunity.