The White House on Tuesday continued to push back against accusations that President Trump was a racist — with his spokeswoman citing his decade-long stint on reality TV as evidence.

“I think that is an outrageous claim, and frankly I think if the critics of the president were who he said he was [sic], why did NBC give him a show for a decade on TV?” Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked reporters, referring to “The Apprentice” and apparently meaning that the president was not the person his critics had described.

“Why did they want to be with him for years and years in various activities whether it was events, fundraisers and other things? It’s just an outrageous and ludicrous excuse.”

Sanders was replying to Sen. Chuck Schumer, who said Monday on CBS’s “Late Show” that Trump could prove he was not a racist by signing an immigration bill to protect the Dreamers from deportation.

“Why did Chuck Schumer and all of his colleagues come and beg Donald Trump for money?” she added.

Trump, Sanders added, was “not going to apologize for trying to fix our immigration system,” as the fallout continued over his reported comment that Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations were “shithole countries.”

Sanders said Trump “hasn’t said he didn’t use strong language” in the meeting with bipartisan lawmakers in the heated immigration debate last week.

Meanwhile, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) is standing by his description of last week’s meeting.

Asked Tuesday about Trump and some Republicans challenging his honesty, Durbin told reporters, “Politics ain’t beanbag. I understand that. But I’ll tell you this: I stand by every word I said about what was said and what happened.”

The Democrat says he and a handful of other senators who crafted a bipartisan immigration deal are working to win over additional supporters.

Trump and some Republicans have said the senators’ agreement isn’t tough enough.

Durbin said he wants Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to let the Senate debate the immigration measure this week as lawmakers try to figure out by Friday how to avoid a government shutdown.

With Post wires