Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBubba Wallace to be driver of Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin NASCAR team Graham: GOP will confirm Trump's Supreme Court nominee before the election Southwest Airlines, unions call for six-month extension of government aid MORE's children and Geoffrey Zakarian exchanged a number of insults during their deposition over a failed restaurant deal, according to a report by the Washingtonian.

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In his deposition, Zakarian said that it became nearly impossible to envision a future for the Washington restaurant after the Republican presidential nominee's “morally reprehensible” comments about immigration.

"I was hoping that he would come to his senses and show us that he’s not out of his mind after all and apologize. So I was just going along hoping that this thing was a bad dream,” he said.

Zakarian, who became the eighth Iron Chef after winning the fourth season of "The Next Iron Chef," said he became concerned with hiring new workers, damaging his reputation and even potential activists that would protest the restaurant.

However, Trump's children, according to the deposition, believe that Zakarian was simply "following the bandwagon" and didn't have strong political convictions of his own, the magazine reported.

“And so I believed that Geoffrey was, you know, following the bandwagon to avoid scrutiny," said Donald Trump Jr., adding that Zakarian simply followed the footsteps of José Andrés, another celebrity chef who stopped doing business with the billionaire real estate mogul.

"I don’t think that Geoffrey has strong political or emotional convictions. ... I think he sort of went with the wind of what José was doing. From what I had been told, Geoffrey was highly opportunistic in a negative way. So that’s the filter through which I know Geoffrey. I don’t know him otherwise," said Ivanka Trump.

The two parties also weighed in on a smaller internal feud over restaurant design issues that happened before the split.

“Ivanka came in and said, ‘I don’t like this, I don’t like that, I don’t like this, I don’t like that,'” Zakarian said, according to the Washingtonian. “And we said, basically, that’s too bad, that’s what it is. ... I put up a stink like, this is ridiculous, she’s second-guessing everything.”

The Iron Chef later praised Trump's children, however, and focused most of the blame for the restaurant's failure on Republican nominee.

“If they should be suing someone, they should sue Donald senior, because he f---ing did this.

"He rendered this Chernobyl. He did it. So they should sue their dad.”