Producers had to heavily edit The Apprentice to stop Trump from looking like a ‘complete moron’, authors claim

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-the-apprentice-lucky-loser-moron-b2615226.html

46 comments

  1. Thanks for that, idiots. Could have saved us all a big headache if you had just let him run his mouth back then.

  2. You all could have said something like 8 years ago? I am so tired of people not standing up to Trump and protecting the country because “money”.

  4. I’ve got news for these TV producers, it didn’t work. A big part of why The Apprentice had such big ratings was because viewers wanted to see just how big a moron Trump really is.

    Millions of viewers tuned in to The Jerry Springer show, too, it attracted the same type of audience.

  6. Release the footage of Trump saying the N word please

  8. I only watched two episodes, but he still looked like a complete moron.

  9. I watched some of the first season. He looked like a moron even though he had minimal screen time.

  15. Yeah well… thanks for that… now look at our Supreme Court

  17. It’s time for Mark Burnett to release raw tapes. Put the last nail into this puppet show.

  18. The guy who decided to take Trump’s SATs decided it was okay

    The podiatrist who decided to give Trump Vietnam deferments thought it was okay

    The Wharton professors who let trump slide to graduation thought it was okay

    The lawyers who paid off the women trump sexually assaulted thought it was okay

    The guy who ghostwrote and pretty much made up everything in his book thought it was okay

    The producers of The Apprentice decided to edit Trump to “stop him from looking like a complete moron” and thought it was okay.

    The Producers of the Apprentice also decided to comply with their NDAs when Trump decided to possibly drop N-bombs and say racist shit thought it was okay

    The bank lenders who keep giving trump money despite his bankruptcies thought it was okay

    Billy Bush and Access Hollywood had video of trump bragging about sexually assaulting women and everyone involved thought it was okay

    Trump is elected president and attempts to bribe Ukraine to take down political opponents and congress thought it was okay

    Trump attempts to overthrow the election certification in 2021 and yet again congress thought it was okay

    Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, but the judge decided to give him a pass on sentencing until after November for no discernible reason and thinks it’s okay.

    I’m fucking tired. Just *one* person had to say “I refuse to let this shit slide” anytime before 2015 and yet we find ourselves in the universe where people don’t have a spine.

  21. So basically what the editors at the apprenticed did is what the national media outlets are doing now.

    Sanewashing Chump

  22. Somewhere I read the description from someone who worked on the show: that Trump is so stupid that, meeting him, it actually throws you off.

  24. 9 years too late for this. Why wasn’t this released in 2015?

  25. I’ll be honest here, he is an idiot even with the editing on The Apprentice. I fucking hated that show because of how ridiculously stupid the entire premise was. Donald Trump, a man known for bankrupting casinos, was using his platform to bring on an apprentice to follow him around. Keep in mind the whole Trump University sham was going at the same time. I knew it was bullshit.

    I tried so many times to see what the appeal of that show was and every single time, I sat there watching people commit acts of near business fraud and questionably ethical decisions that no company should make. My roommate was absolutely obsessed with it but I just couldn’t deal with it.

  27. I feel like I can draw a direct line from that show to him becoming president. Maybe slightly hyperbolic, but I think I watched a documentary or something and Trump was not doing well at the time and this show essentially shot him back into the mainstream. I seem to remember the producer having to do things to make Trump appear wealthier than he was at the time or something?

  28. He is the world’s biggest clown… We use this term in political and business to describe someone that absolutely has no idea what they’re doing but puts on the makeup and does the talking points just for show.

  31. There was a good article in The New York Times about him and the show recently. The showrunners essentially crafted Trump’s image to make him look more impressive than he actually was. He owes so much to the people who made that show.

  32. Think about it, if it weren’t for the producers of this show Trump would hav probably been broke and forgotten

  33. You won’t see the outtakes because Mark Burnett the POS producer of the show is an Orange turd supporter. One day I think all of the shit we already knew about this asshole will come to light.

    I don’t need to see outtakes to change my mind about what a moron the POS is. If you watched the show you could see a lot of of the same nonsensical and non logical decision making unfold.

  34. Jeff Bezos owns The Apprentice library now, he acquired its parent company. You notice how Trump used to shit-talk Bezos and now he doesn’t?

    Bezos probably has enough outtakes in the library to end Trump, but he chooses not to.

  36. >Buettner noted that one of the unexpected firings was that of David Gould, a medical doctor with an MBA.

    >The co-author told CNN on Tuesday night that Gould was a “really amazing guy who a lot of the producers thought was going to win that whole series, that season. He would just run the whole gauntlet. But Trump fired him the very first episode.

    That’s because Trump can’t stand not being the smartest person in the room. So, he fires the smart persons.

  37. Heard he said the N-word on film, would be a good time to drop that racist masterpiece

  38. I can easily believe that Trump is and was a moron, but to be fair: **every** TV show is “heavily edited.” By editors, not producers. That’s how TV shows are made.

    I mean what do you expect, that they just broadcast hours and hours of raw footage for every episode?

  40. But we already knew he was a moron! You assholes scrubbed his image for a new audience and then the folks that knew better somehow got brainwashed into forgetting his cascade of failures through the 80s and 90s. Thanks assholes

  41. Where’s the original unaired material ? I’ll watch some of that lol. There’s no way to not make turmp look like a moron though.

  42. Reality TV has led to the demise of the public’s perception of REALITY. So many people don’t realize it’s heavily scripted.

  43. NBC also had to buy all new office furniture because Trump’s was hopelessly out of date, chipped and frayed. Luckiest POS alive, it just hurts to think about

  46. I’m glad this angle is getting more attention lately.  The veneer is washing off.  Every article you ever read about how to identify low-IQ individuals will describe this guy to a T.

    This guy is *not smart* and has been pushed through his life by shills, enablers and fellow conmen.  His name is easily leveraged by political hacks and foreign governments.  Still, he’s never ran a successful business, seems to have no actual friends, can’t play golf, lies continuously about provable and inconsequential issues,  can’t complete a coherent sentence and doesn’t read.  

    When we talk about weaponized idiocy, the situation may be that literal: this idiot has been manipulated and weaponized by other smarter people for his whole adult life.  Listen to how he speaks.  How he talks about women, minorities, his own cabinet.  Whether or not you agree with anything he’s ever said, Can you think of a single profound, intelligent thought this person has ever expressed?  Any abstract comparison, a metaphor or a creative tangent?  Anything at all, deeper than an intentionally cruel or offensive insult?  It’s because shallow thinking, inability to empathize, avoiding critical thinking, and deflective meanness are all characteristics of very low IQ people.  

    He’s not clever, scheming or even rational.  Going straight describing him as a “psychopath” or “narcissist” is giving far too much credit.  There are years of compelling accounts from psychiatrists and family that he’s emotionally and intellectually disabled.

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