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Donald Trump claimed that Joan Rivers voted for him in 2016, despite the comedian having died two years earlier.
The former US president and recently convicted felon was interviewed by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh last November for a new book about his time hosting The Apprentice, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, which is set to be published on June 18.
In the book, Trump discusses Rivers, who won the second season of Celebrity Apprentice in 2009.
I thought she might have been a Republican, Trump said. I know one thing: she voted for me, according to what she said.
This claim is impossible as Trump first stood for election on November 8, 2016. Rivers died on September 4, 2014 at the age of 81.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/donald-trump-joan-rivers-death-republican-b2563058.html
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,818 posts)hibbing
(10,392 posts)ArkansasDemocrat1
(3,061 posts)Lovie777
(14,540 posts)yellowcanine
(36,275 posts)Just say it out loud, Donnie.
malaise
(277,180 posts)😂
PatSeg
(49,586 posts)Norbert
(6,454 posts)marble falls
(61,641 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,243 posts)... she would probably have voted for him. I heard she was a closet Tea Party Republican. Unconfirmed, really... would like to come back to this thread and learn this was wrong.
emulatorloo
(45,510 posts)Mike Nelson
(10,243 posts)... is people I heard talking about her, including one of my closer friends, who worked at NBC. I thought it was strange. I was surprised because I assumed she was very progressive.
Mike Nelson
(10,243 posts)... she was friends with the Reagans, too. My friend also knew the Reagans (Ronnie & Nancy).
maryellen99
(3,798 posts)oldsoftie
(13,483 posts)I've seen it SO many times for years
NYC Liberal
(20,329 posts)emulatorloo
(45,510 posts)I guess it is good she died before he went full MAGA and showed his true putrid colors as President
True Dough
(19,846 posts)bucolic_frolic
(46,483 posts)Trump discovers religion!
myohmy2
(3,569 posts)...and trump have never walked hand in hand...
...you would think more republicans would be focusing heavily on the 'day after trump' and where the party will be...
...but no, they still want to represent the rantings of trump...
...it must be difficult to be a normal republican (if there is such a thing)...
...
Diraven
(957 posts)There would be front page stories about how this means he's too senile to be president. With Trump it's just laughed off .
oasis
(51,485 posts)RAB910
(3,933 posts)Srkdqltr
(7,494 posts)I never understood it. I remember seeing Joan Rivers out on the street selling cupcakes. Why she wanted to be an apprentice at her age, I'll never understand.
Why it would be called Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass? Who knows.
But then I didn't like Trump even then. I could see the sadistic way he treated people.
plimsoll
(1,690 posts)Through the looking glass has the strongest commentary on contemporary Republican politics out there:
LisaM
(28,420 posts)in the middle of a recession turned me off completely.
Plus, that's not what being an apprentice is all about. Being an apprentice means that you are carefully trained and mentored through a profession, not that you're competing with a bunch of other people then kicked to the curb. Trust Trump to be associated with something that completely twists the meaning of an honorable term.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,244 posts)which is what the regular or celebrity contestants were.
I never much cared for reality shows in the first place so I didnt watch The Apprentice. But I agree, it wasnt really in good taste to have a jerk like Trump firing people for cruel laughs while the U.S. was in a recession.
Good point there about the true meaning of an apprentice.
Different Drummer
(8,383 posts)the cruelty is the point.
sop
(11,078 posts)Saw a few promo ads for the show, couldn't imagine why anyone would want to watch that crap, but then I hated Trump long before he ran for president.
emulatorloo
(45,510 posts)Johonny
(21,829 posts)DFW
(56,311 posts)twodogsbarking
(12,113 posts)Doodley
(10,134 posts)Emile
(28,572 posts)Dave Bowman
(3,455 posts)spanone
(137,431 posts)trmp lies
all the time
about everything
DemocraticPatriot
(5,410 posts)Republican!
COL Mustard
(6,798 posts)What a fricking liar this guy is. Or demented. Or both.
Different Drummer
(8,383 posts)Trump, in a nutshell.
Martin Eden
(13,367 posts)Nuff said.
What follows will be a lie, batguano, or both.
Passages
(752 posts)The epitome of a demagogue, to a T.
keithbvadu2
(39,726 posts)Dave Bowman
(3,455 posts)republianmushroom
(17,152 posts)sop
(11,078 posts)Maybe the undead can vote.
airplaneman
(1,268 posts)Hekate
(94,160 posts)His WH docs name was Ronny Johnson. Black people love him because hes a convicted felon.
Hes confabulating.