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https://thehill.com/homenews/media/423142-apprentice-producer-says-they-struggled-to-make-trump-seem-coherentA TV producer who oversaw the first five seasons of President Trump's former reality television show The Apprentice says those working behind the scenes often struggled to make Trump seem coherent.
He wouldnt (couldn't?) read a script he stumbled over the words and got the enunciation all wrong, Walker said.
Walker ... said NBC's "Apprentice" reinvigorated Trump's image as a successful businessman.
The lengthy piece in The New Yorker argues that Mark Burnett, the former executive producer of The Apprentice," helped ... by ending a downward slope in his professional life and giving him the appearance of a tycoon. Burnett acknowledged the New York real estate mogul was at a low point in his career.
Walker added that Trump often spoke in a derogatory manner about women, frequently commenting on their bodies.
How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)I am an atheist but if I wasnt I would wonder about the anti christ. The WORST he acts, the more HATE AND DEATH he brings, the more they WORSHIP him.
msongs
(67,347 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)...is barely able to communicate.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)His fans will read this and identify with his illiteracy.
I guess they might have someone in the family who is literate and can just give them the highlights.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)And Trump is the dark one, and has convinced his followers that he is a creature of light, so....
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)Initech
(100,029 posts)Demovictory9
(32,419 posts)businessman. Now I know it was all smoke and mirrors. I blame apprentice for trump being president.
TrishaJ
(797 posts)HER EMAILS!! BENGHAZI!!!!
edhopper
(33,467 posts)"He can't read, just like me! Time we got rid of those reading snobs in Gubbermint!"
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)(Emphasis added)
salin
(48,955 posts)and was so disgusted and frustrated, I had to walk away.
Burnett is a piece of work. F him and the horse he rode in on.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a slimeball. Somehow, these people manage to find each other and bad things happen.
salin
(48,955 posts)Another couple of malignant forces finding each other and fucking up history: Roger Aisles and Rupert Murdoch.
LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,131 posts)because he married his first wife specifically to get a green card.
obamanut2012
(26,041 posts)Who, in their Bible miniseries, had Satan look like Obama ON PURPOSE!
Vinca
(50,236 posts)appal_jack
(3,813 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Fuck so-called reality TV.
The reason I stopped watching television was Survivor
I thought that shit was a bad influence on our culture
Turns out I was right
FakeNoose
(32,556 posts)Remember the leftover money that wasn't used for the inaugural celebrations? A lot of it went under the table to Mark Burnett as a payoff. He's the one who has those Apprentice out-takes and blooper reels that we keep hearing rumors about. We hear rumors but the tapes never show up anywhere, Burnett has them safely locked up, it would seem.
Thank you! My thoughts exactly! So called "reality" tv makes me hulk out in anger! The fact that people watch that garbage makes me want to smash things! I believe the dumbing down of this country is due in large part to the poop that is plastered on the tv. There are people i know who get so excited about the new season of Big Brother! Seriously?! Years ago, these were some fairly intelligent people. Now, not so much. I gotta stop commenting now cuz i can feel the rage building inside me, and you wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
spanone
(135,781 posts)WhiteTara
(29,692 posts)I've never heard how it got started. Whose idea was it, I wonder.
Phentex
(16,330 posts)he needed someone who represented a business person. That's all DT was perceived as at the time. And I watched a few seasons. He didn't really do very much. Just showed up at firing time, made a few comments and fired someone. Many times you could tell he knew nothing about what had gone on. He was just a blip.
Dan
(3,537 posts)Fortunate that BOZO the Clown is not on TV now, because one can almost anticipate the next GOP candidate for president.
JI7
(89,239 posts)it would not be worth their time or anything else.
trump did it because he really isn't as wealthy as he claims.
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roody
(10,849 posts)I don't get it.
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kskiska
(27,045 posts)" other contestants swooned over Trumps deal-making prowess or his elevated tasteswhen they exclaimed, on tours of tacky Trump properties, Oh, my God, this is so richthis is, like, really rich! Fran Lebowitz once remarked that Trump is a poor persons idea of a rich person, and Jackson was struck, when the show aired, by the extent to which Americans fell for the ruse. Main Street America saw all those glittery things, the helicopter and the gold-plated sinks, and saw the most successful person in the universe, he recalled. The people I knew in the world of high finance understood that it was all a joke.
tulipsandroses
(5,122 posts)I've been saying this for this for a long time now. For a few years it seemed as if that was all the programming on tv. All these fake reality tv shows. From my understanding, they were not real- most were scripted in some way. So Trump was basically get a script written to secure his future as president.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)That is when producers saw "reality tv" as a really cheap replacement. So we got all the amateur talent shows, the housewives of wherever, the fake survival/race shows. With the exception of the talent shows, scripted trash talk and fake competitions, that have ZERO to do with "reality".
Hollywood has been laughing all the way to the bank, at the writer's unions' members... That'll teach them...
edit for grammar and spelling
Raine
(30,540 posts)Then an American Family in 1973 but the later group became popular with Survivor and some others like The Bachelor, the Apprentice, Big Brother etc but that was BEFORE the writers strike. During the writers strike they really pumped out the reality shows like crazy, dozens of them on major networks and cable ones. (I was curious so I looked it up on google.)
GoneOffShore
(17,336 posts)And we continued to work for 'reality shows'.
I really hated them. All aspects of them. The reality of the shows is, as described in the first paragraph of the article, 'fascist television'.
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)moondust
(19,956 posts)"the appearance of a tycoon"
Burnett knew it was fraud to pass the sleazebag loser off as some kind of supreme being whose place it was to sit in judgment of others, deciding "winners" and "losers," all without reminding the audience that it was just a fake TV show.
Burnett can go to Hell and stay there for his role in creating this monster that has been foisted upon the world.
emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)Gothmog
(144,890 posts)the producers of the Apprentice hid from us the fact that trump is a nut case
3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)Or was Trump another $2 T-shirt that he pawned off for $18?
The answer to that question is pretty damn obvious.