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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Mon May 13, 2019, 09:53 AM May 2019

SMFH- Chump wanted a black team versus a white team on The Apprentice

In the summer of 2005, Donald Trump had an idea: What if the next season of his reality-TV show, The Apprentice, pitted “a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites”? Trump thought the format would be a sort of social commentary—“reflective of our very vicious world.” The concept never made it to air, but Trump’s treatment of black contestants on his show generated controversy.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/trump-racism-comments/588067/

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SMFH- Chump wanted a black team versus a white team on The Apprentice (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2019 OP

"Our very vicious world". What a sad,sad life he leads. livetohike May 2019 #1

...all the while, personally making the world more "vicious". Totally Tunsie May 2019 #2

And in related news... moondust May 2019 #3

livetohike

(22,138 posts)

1. "Our very vicious world". What a sad,sad life he leads.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2019, 10:52 AM

May 2019

This is how he sees things and explains why he acts as he does. Pathetic.

Totally Tunsie

(10,885 posts)

2. ...all the while, personally making the world more "vicious".

Reply to livetohike (Reply #1)

Mon May 13, 2019, 12:51 PM

May 2019

He just doesn't see the irony of his actions.

moondust

(19,972 posts)

3. And in related news...

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Mon May 13, 2019, 01:36 PM

May 2019

Today on NBC Nightly News Lester Holt will be talking to the Central Park Five ahead of their upcoming Netflix series When They See Us.

You know, the guys Donald Trump wanted to receive the death penalty and continued to claim they were guilty even after they were cleared by DNA evidence.

This could get interesting.

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