Star Jones, 'Celebrity Apprentice' Winner?

And like Donald, who has taken his hits, Star, 49, knows how to roll with the punches.

“I get along with everybody – they don’t get along with me,” she tells me with a laugh.

I had to ask - what’s her advice for getting along with co-workers who don’t like you?

“First of all, you need to establish if they’re co-workers,” she says. “There’s a difference between a co-worker and a competitor. I’m playing the game.”

Also: She holds her own, and her opinion is not easily swayed when it comes to The Donald’s potential presidential run.

Case in point: She won’t cast her ballot for the reality star simply because he’s her boss and they’re in the spotlight together.

“I’m just not a Republican,” she says. “I’m a Democrat. I think most people have seen me that way. I’ve been a national surrogate for the Democratic party for the last four presidential elections, so I think it’s a little disingenuous of me to stand on a red carpet and say ‘oh yes, I would vote for Donald Trump’ when everybody in the nation knows that I’ve traveled the country on behalf of the DNC.”

She continues, “Donald and I are friends first, but we disagree on a lot of political issues. I don’t like the fact that people have tried to make this an issue that is black and white, because I’ve known him a long time, and that is unfair and it is absolutely wrong.”

Still, she jumps to his defense.

“I disagree with him on a whole lot of stuff, and I don’t have any problem saying it, and I have said it to him. But I won’t let anybody attack my friends. I don’t think that’s right.”