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Khloe Kardashian has responded to rumors that Donald Trump trashed her on "The Celebrity Apprentice" set back in 2009. Donald reportedly called Khloe "piglet" before firing her from the program.

While promoting her new denim line Good American in West Hollywood on Monday, October 17, Khloe said she was shocked by Donald's "cruel" remarks. "I didn't think he was saying those things about me," she told L.A. Times, "But he says those comments about a lot of women - really derogatory things."

"Someone who is that simplistic to judge things off of surface is not someone I want running my country," the "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" star added, "It's not cool or appropriate for any person, male or female, to judge someone else by their looks. I find it really cruel. It's wild."

Khloe isn't letting his negativity get her down, though. "I'm a tough cookie, so something that he said - that's not gonna bother me," she shared, "Ninety percent of the time, [criticism] doesn't bother me. I'm not sure why. I think I'm just in my own world. But I believe that's why [those incidents] happen to me, because I can take it. If that's what it takes to get even just this little group of people to realize how shady and bad and negative that one person is, I can take it."

Rumor has it, Donald made the remarks against Khloe off camera and before the show's pivotal boardroom scene, where he fired her. "He basically wanted to just get rid of her," an editor on "The Apprentice" told The Huffington Post, "He called her a 'piglet.' " Donald allegedly asked, "What is this? We can't even get the hot one?" - in reference to Khloe's sister, Kim Kardashian.

According to a second source, Donald also said, "Why don't we fire Khloe? She is a fat piglet. Why did we get the ugly Kardashian?" A third source added, "When they fired [her], it wasn't on merit. It was on him not liking her." Donald allegedly asked, "What's the reason we can get her off [the show]?"