12/29/18: The blows to the president’s ego keep coming as the year nears an end. Top executives from The Apprentice offer a fresh take on their former star. What they make clear is that Trump was Trump even back then.
“Like making the court jester the king.”
Newsweek relays the story, which first appeared in The New Yorker:
Editor Jonathan Braun…said…Trump
would fire contestants on the show on a whim, forcing editors to “reverse
engineer” programs to make Trump’s decisions seem coherent.
Show producer Mark Burnett
remarked, “We know each week who has been fired, and therefore, you’re
editing in reverse.” Amid a series of firings and resignations in the Trump
administration, he remarked, “I find it strangely validating to hear that they’re doing the same thing in the White
House.”
“Most of us knew he was a fake,” Braun,
who worked on six series of the show, said. “He had just gone through I don’t
know how many bankruptcies. But we made him out to be the most important person
in the world. It was like making the court jester the king.”
This wasn’t the first time people who worked with Trump on
the show had admitted they came away less than impressed. “Did we think this
clown, this buffoon with the funny hair, would ever become a world leader? Not
once,” producer Bill Pruitt told reporters in an interview in 2016.
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