Trace Adkins competed on Celebrity Apprentice not once but twice. Adkins first competed in the seventh season of The Apprentice (and the first of Celebrity Apprentice), where he came in as runner-up, followed by returning for the All-Star Celebrity Apprentice in Season 13 in 2013, which Adkins won.

In Season 7, Adkins competed to raise money for the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network, a cause personal to him because his daughter, Brianna, suffers from a severe food allergy. In Season 13, Adkins competed for the American Red Cross. Both causes are what compelled him to compete, even though he admits now he didn’t enjoy being on the TV show.

“It was the most stressful thing I’ve ever done,” Adkins admitted on HBO‘s Real Time with Bill Maher (via The Hill). ““If you go on there and try to win, which I wanted to win for my charities.”

Although the show was hosted by Donald Trump, Adkins says he never became super close to the man who would become the President of the United States.

“He was always good to me … I met him a few times,” Adkins shared. “He was very charming and personable in person. … He wants everyone to like him. That’s his big thing,”

Adkins, who voted for Trump in both elections, said that the divisiveness in the country over the last several years weren’t as much with Trump as the political parties

“Once each side is pointing at the other and calling them evil, once you get to that point, if you truly believe that, then compromise is off the table,” Adkins maintained.

Adkins is back on TV, but not for another reality TV show. Instead, the Grand Ole Opry member is starring as Albie Roman in the FOX TV show, Monarch, opposite award-winning actress, Susan Sarandon. Although his role is fictitious, Adkins finds a lot of similarities between who he is and who he portrays on the TV drama.

“He’s a no-nonsense kind of guy, and I’m kind of that way too,” Adkins told Fox News. “He’s not very animated, and neither am I. We say what we’ve gotta say, and don’t have to yell it … just kind of move through this life as softly and peacefully as they’ll allow us to, but when they don’t – we’ll do what we’ve gotta do.”

Monarch airs on FOX on Tuesdays at 9:00 PM ET

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