“He’s Obsessed With Menstruation” -- Apprentice workers on Donald Trump

[brooklynite]

Slate:

“He would talk about the female contestants’ bodies a lot from the control room,” recalls one midlevel producer. “We shot in Trump Tower, the control room was on the seventh floor, and he walked in one day and was talking about a contestant, saying, ‘Her breasts were so much bigger at the casting. Maybe she had her period then.’ He knows he’s mic’d and that 30 people are hearing this, but he didn’t care. That’s kind of him. During the campaign, when he was talking about Megyn Kelly, I thought: He’s obsessed with menstruation.”

“At a wrap party at the end of one season,” recalls a crew member, “he gave a speech to all the crew. And at the end of it, he rolled out a couple dozen bottles of Dom Pérignon for us to drink. We all applauded. It seemed really generous. I’d never had Dom before. But later we found out from the people on the production side that he’d forced them to pay for that, so his gesture really came out of the show’s budget.”

“He’s not good with people touching him, he’s very germophobic,” said one crew member. “We were instructed never to touch him—he wouldn’t shake hands,” said another.

“There was a fat contestant who was a buffoon and a fuckup,” recalls the midlevel producer. “And he would fuck up week after week, and the producers would figure that he’d screwed up so badly that Trump would have to fire him. But Trump kept deciding to fire someone else. The producers had to scramble because of course Trump can never be seen to make a bad call on the show, so we had to re-engineer the footage to make a different contestant look bad. Later, I heard a producer talk to him, and Trump said, ‘Everybody loves a fat guy. People will watch if you have a funny fat guy around. Trust me, it’s good for ratings.’ I look at Chris Christie now and I swear that’s what’s happening.”

[Wounded Bear]

1. That last quote is rather interesting...

“There was a fat contestant who was a buffoon and a fuckup,” recalls the midlevel producer. “And he would fuck up week after week, and the producers would figure that he’d screwed up so badly that Trump would have to fire him. But Trump kept deciding to fire someone else. The producers had to scramble because of course Trump can never be seen to make a bad call on the show, so we had to re-engineer the footage to make a different contestant look bad. Later, I heard a producer talk to him, and Trump said, ‘Everybody loves a fat guy. People will watch if you have a funny fat guy around. Trust me, it’s good for ratings.’ I look at Chris Christie now and I swear that’s what’s happening.”

He really is first and foremost a showman with no substance behind him, who gets away with shit because he's rich and boorish in his behavior.

[appal_jack]

4. Bad judgement too.

Chris Christie may be plenty fat, but he's about as funny as syphilis, a heart attack, and a stroke all rolled into one. If tRump is using him because "‘Everybody loves... a funny fat guy around," then his judgement is as bad as his politics.

-app

[Wounded Bear]

7. I think most of us sane folks knew that...

[FSogol]

9. "his judgement is as bad as his politics" - honestly, it is that bad.

[NewJeffCT]

16. Republicans might like Christie's "tough guy" humor, though

where he slams teachers and unions and the like.

[WhiteTara]

2. I'll bet the real reason he doesn't shake hands

is that he doesn't want anyone to know how tiny his are!

[gratuitous]

3. Sports Illustrated did a feature on Andre the Giant years ago

As I recall, the introductory photo was a close-up of Andre's hand and the author's hand each holding a can of beer. The author, no small fellow himself, made the can look small; Andre's hand, though, engulfed the can so that it looked like one of those toy supermarket cans.

Perhaps if Trump wanted to earn some honest money, he could be a hand model to make things like candy bars look really yuuuuuge.

[WhiteTara]

5. His next con.

[longship]

13. Who doesn't love Andre?

Homage to him:

From "The Princess Bride"

What a lovely person!

[winstars]

8. He doesn't have man hands:

[BootinUp]

6. T.M.I.

inside Trump's brain. yuck.

[IronLionZion]

10. People call him out on his BS all the time

and it gets widespread coverage and ridicule. There's no chance he can be successful in the general election at this rate. American voters are not a TV audience.

[63splitwindow]

11. Manifestly unfit to be President nt

[Initech]

12. Is he Brick from Anchorman now?

[liberalnarb]

14. I don't judge people for their sexual preferences.

But the thought of "trump" and "kinky fetish" makes me want to hurl.

[Fla Dem]

15. Thank you for the "Sanders Supporter for Hillary" tag image.

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Hopefully we will all unite. Very gracious for you to do.

[Hekate]

17. Tinyhands is a piece of work....