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Penn JILETTE on Drumpf in Apprentice - no humor, no insight - 3 minutes out of hours of taping (Original Post) UTUSN Jul 2021 OP
"crazy, venal, empty" - no music either UTUSN Jul 2021 #1
ROGAN is a POS. He has literally convinced lots of young men NOT TO GET VACCINATED!!! winstars Jul 2021 #2
Fortunately he's pretty much irrelevant to this clip unblock Jul 2021 #3
Thank you. UTUSN Jul 2021 #5
Yes, I know. I've been ostracized/flamed before. This is not about him. Please don't censor others. UTUSN Jul 2021 #4
That was a stated opinion. Far from censorship. Scrivener7 Jul 2021 #15
No filters NJCher Jul 2021 #6
Yip, and all of us here knew it all since that stoopid escalator thing - heck, UTUSN Jul 2021 #7
I'm actually not sure "no filter" is accurate unblock Jul 2021 #12
I had the same thought PJMcK Jul 2021 #16
that's a listening problem NJCher Jul 2021 #22
why I don't think it's a filter NJCher Jul 2021 #21
He compensates with extra bats in the belfry. 11 Bravo Jul 2021 #20
Thing is, we all knew the phoniness, but JILETTE played along UTUSN Jul 2021 #8
Well as his said, it was a tv show. He basically said unblock Jul 2021 #11
You should listen to his podcast, Penn's Sunday School. joshcryer Jul 2021 #13
Oh yeah, and NJCher Jul 2021 #9
The Apprentice showrunners learned early on that Chump couldn't follow a script FakeNoose Jul 2021 #23
Does he smell? I've heard another guy who spent time on that show... brush Jul 2021 #10
That was comedian Noel Casler, who was a staffer on the Apprentice at one time. smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #14
+1. "Apricot hellbeast," that brightened my morning. n/t John1956PA Jul 2021 #17
I wonder if that's why he let Turkey have its way in Syria? brush Jul 2021 #19
"I never saw him show any understanding or enjoyment of music..." Liberal In Texas Jul 2021 #18

winstars

(4,220 posts)
2. ROGAN is a POS. He has literally convinced lots of young men NOT TO GET VACCINATED!!!
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:02 AM
Jul 2021

He has great influence over many many people with his podcast. He said don't get vaccinated and then kinda backtracked. His go to defense is "I am a moron, don't listen to me" but they really do!!! "What do I know, I'm a comedian"...

He is totally responsible the same way Fucker Carlson and Faux News is for the ant-vaccine assholes now driving up "the numbers"!!!!

He has a lot of power over exactly the segment that needs to get vaccinated.

FUCK HIM!

UTUSN

(70,684 posts)
4. Yes, I know. I've been ostracized/flamed before. This is not about him. Please don't censor others.
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:07 AM
Jul 2021

UTUSN

(70,684 posts)
7. Yip, and all of us here knew it all since that stoopid escalator thing - heck,
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:26 AM
Jul 2021

I knew it from BEFORE 2015 - back in the Burlington stores, when his idiot dress shirts and ties were featured - I would FLEE from those aisles EVEN THEN!







unblock

(52,205 posts)
12. I'm actually not sure "no filter" is accurate
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 04:16 AM
Jul 2021

I'd say that he says out loud things that others would keep to themselves, and if that's what he means by "no filter", ok I guess.

But Donnie's speech is actually quite disciplined in his own psychotic world. *everything* he says has an agenda. It's always trying to create a world where he's the greatest at everything, where he is trying to convince others to spin things in his favor, repeat his lies, think what he wants people to think.

Which means there most definitely *is* a filter. Anything that makes Donnie look bad is completely unacceptable for conversation. There are plenty of topics and people he will not talk about because it doesn't serve his image or his agenda.

PJMcK

(22,034 posts)
16. I had the same thought
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 07:33 AM
Jul 2021

Not having "filters" is a bit too vague especially with regards to Trump.

Trump ALWAYS has an agenda. As you wrote, unblock, Trump is always inflating his own worth whether it's financial or "intellectual," (it's hard to think of Trump as an intellectual!). Trump definitely has filters that keep out any criticism, negativity or anything that contradicts the false "reality" Trump is trying to fashion around himself.

My sincerest hope is that the legal investigations into Trump & Co. will expose his criminality once and for all for the world to see what a phony and a loser that Trump has always been.

NJCher

(35,660 posts)
22. that's a listening problem
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 05:23 PM
Jul 2021


Trump definitely has filters that keep out any criticism, negativity or anything that contradicts the false "reality" Trump is trying to fashion around himself.


But he does hear it, otherwise he would not know to defend himself against it. And he always defends himself.

NJCher

(35,660 posts)
21. why I don't think it's a filter
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 05:21 PM
Jul 2021
Saying things out loud that others would keep to themselves is, in the interpersonal communications field, indicative of a low self monitor.

There are high self monitors and low self monitors.

High self monitors are acutely aware of the image they project. Low self monitors are not. They don't have the capability of understanding how they come off to others.

So is Trump a high self monitor or a low self monitor ? I say low because he lacks empathy, the ability to understand how another would feel. You need to be empathetic before you can adjust the communications message to something another would find more appealing, sympathetic, or whatever your communication goal is.

Another reason it cannot be a filter is that filters require the ability to put into action in various situations. Filters are applied. Example: a police officer has to address members of a college community about a crime wave that is currently going on. He shows up in a dark blue sweater, shirt, and trousers. Or he shows up in a police uniform. Which choice would indicate he is a high self monitor, or aware of the message he is projecting?

Trump is notoriously undisciplined, so a filter would be too rigorous for him. He could do it no more easily than he could read a two-page, single-spaced memo. Just beyond his ability.

I believe Trump acts this way because of a personality disorder.

unblock

(52,205 posts)
11. Well as his said, it was a tv show. He basically said
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 04:09 AM
Jul 2021

that Donnie's mental illnesses and such were well suited for provided tv entertainment, but poorly suited for running even just a business, never mind a country.

joshcryer

(62,270 posts)
13. You should listen to his podcast, Penn's Sunday School.
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 04:27 AM
Jul 2021

Look for Trump related episodes.

Jillette went on the show to promote Penn and Teller and show that he had business acumen. Trump hated Jillette for that reason. Because Penn really did come from nothing, unlike Trump.

NJCher

(35,660 posts)
9. Oh yeah, and
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:41 AM
Jul 2021

3” of usable tape from 12hrs of taping!

He just runs his mouth with no filters and even after 12 hours people just say so what.

The man lit
erally has nothing to say. Not one interesting thought.

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
23. The Apprentice showrunners learned early on that Chump couldn't follow a script
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 05:43 PM
Jul 2021

He probably couldn't even read a script. He probably couldn't read cue cards either. The showrunners couldn't get Chump to do anything right, so they just let him talk forever. Whatever crap came out of his mouth, and there were a lot of mean, racist, misogynist things too. They taped it all and then they edited down after he was done. What an awful way to run a show!

Problem is, Chump always believed he was doing great. No, the show was great in spite of him, not because of him. (Actually I didn't think it was "great" at all - I hated that show. But it was successful on the air for 8 or 9 years.)

Because of all those wasted hours of taping, there have been rumors for years that Chump's racism and hatred of women would all come out when someone leaked the tapes. It still may happen, who knows?



brush

(53,771 posts)
10. Does he smell? I've heard another guy who spent time on that show...
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 04:04 AM
Jul 2021

Last edited Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:24 PM - Edit history (1)

say that he'd sh_t his diaper and they'd have to stop the taping to clean him up. IIRC it was one of the guys from Howard Stern's show, or maybe it was on the Stern show?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
14. That was comedian Noel Casler, who was a staffer on the Apprentice at one time.
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 05:26 AM
Jul 2021

Here is a quote...

"Casler went on to say he saw this "firsthand" while working on The Celebrity Apprentice a decade ago, alleging that Trump's assistant Keith Schiller was in charge of changing the real estate mogul's diapers and making sure he does not embarrass himself in public.

"You've seen it happen while he's in office," he added, claiming Trump soiled himself on at least two occasions: once during a meeting with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and another time at a press conference with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.

Trump is sometimes "unaware" of what's happening, Casler alleged, so aides and members of his family have to intervene.

The president often soils his diapers "in a rage," he claimed.

"He'll start to freak out, you know. One time, there was the word 'arbitrage' on a cue card and he started screaming that the script department was setting him up... and he just freaked out and then very loudly evacuated his bowels and you could smell it," he said.

Casler added that Trump and his aides have desperately tried to hide this problem, but alleged the outlines of the diapers are visible in many videos available online."

Apparently it's from all the drugs he's taken over the years. He has no control over his bowels anymore. Just one more charming fact about the apricot hellbeast.

brush

(53,771 posts)
19. I wonder if that's why he let Turkey have its way in Syria?
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 03:28 PM
Jul 2021

Erdogan had that over him, I mean to reveal his inability to control his bowels?

Liberal In Texas

(13,548 posts)
18. "I never saw him show any understanding or enjoyment of music..."
Sun Jul 18, 2021, 10:49 AM
Jul 2021

The POS has no soul.

The very definition of an Empty Suit.

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