They're fallen stars... but pretty big fish nonetheless.
Unholy trinity Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and... yup... Lindsay Lohan... are among the celebs he's wooing to take under his wing and ultimately fire on Celebrity Apprentice next season.
"We're negotiating with Britney right now. Can you imagine her doing it?" Trump tells our pals at the New York Post's Page Six. "We're not sure what will happen. She's a fucking mess. And that little reality show she had did nothing. But she likes the idea of being on television and I think she'd be great."
Paris, he says, "wants to be on, and we're thinking about it, but I don't know if we're going to do it."
As for Lindsay? "Another fucking mess. We haven't asked her yet, but I'm going to call her this week. It would a positive thing for her to do... for all of them."
Trump says he's already signed a passel of celebs that should make the NBC show just as popular as VH1:
Jim Cramer, Carmen Electra, Joan Rivers, Naomi Judd, George Foreman, Amorosa (the original Apprentice villain), Kimora Lee Simmons, Pete Rose, Dana Patrick, Tony Hawk and Jeff Gordon.
"There are more than a hundred others who want to be on the show," Trump said. But not Rosie O'Donnell. Trump asked, but her rep says "it will not happen in this lifetime or beyond."