Clay Aiken is dubbing himself a “dumbass” for saying he believed that President Trump is “not actually racist.”

The former House candidate competed in a 2012 season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” hosted by Trump. Aiken, 38, tweeted to his more than 850,000 Twitter followers on Tuesday:

Remember all those times I defended @realDonaldTrump and believed he was not actually racist? Well... I am a f*****g dumbass. #imsorry — Clay Aiken (@clayaiken) August 15, 2017

TBC... I've always thought he would be a dumpster fire as a president, and I was right about that. I just didn't think he was racist. #wrong https://t.co/6ec0Qm0WxW — Clay Aiken (@clayaiken) August 15, 2017

The Twitter comments came the day after Trump drew bipartisan fire for saying there was “blame on both sides” for a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.

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One woman was killed and at least 19 people were injured over the weekend when a driver, who allegedly had ties to white supremacists, plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, according to police.

Aiken, who launched a failed House bid in North Carolina as a Democrat in 2014, called Trump a “nice guy” in an interview last month. The singer claimed in the same interview that Trump, as an “Apprentice” star, didn’t make firing decisions.

“Trump didn’t decide who got fired on ‘Apprentice.’ I mean, NBC made those decisions,” Aiken said on a podcast for North Carolina’s News & Observer newspaper.

“It was very much, ‘I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV,’” Aiken said.