{"id":51596,"date":"2026-05-01T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51596\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T00:00:20","slug":"the-dish-will-caustic-rhetoric-hobble-donald-trump-jrs-hosting-chances-on-amazons-rumored-the-apprentice-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/51596\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dish: Will Caustic Rhetoric Hobble Donald Trump Jr\u2019s Hosting Chances On Amazon\u2019s Rumored \u2018The Apprentice\u2019 Revival?"},"content":{"rendered":"

OPINION: President Donald Trump seems determined to use the full force of the White House to force Disney and ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s talk show<\/a> over jokes he told<\/a> days before the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. In this morning\u2019s missive, Trump warned action better be taken soon<\/a>, this after the FCC triggered a review of ABC station licenses<\/a> over Kimmel.<\/p>\n

One has to wonder, then, what kind of scrutiny will be directed toward Jeff Bezos\u2019 Amazon if the Wall Street Journal\u2019s scoop on Wednesday night is accurate that it wants to revive The Apprentice with Donald Trump Jr as host?<\/p>\n

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Kimmel, whose nightly monologues have focused almost exclusively on berating the president, has found himself on the receiving end of MAGA scorn twice now.\u00a0The first<\/a> came after the assassination of Charlie Kirk<\/a>, and the latest is over comments Kimmel made<\/a> days before this latest shooting incident<\/a>, that Melania Trump bore the \u201cglow of an expectant widow.\u201d<\/p>\n

These seemingly pale in comparison to the barbed social media and television appearances attributed to Don Jr., who was part of the NBC reality show The Apprentice when his father hosted. The one that keeps flashing in my mind in the current call to ratchet down the incendiary rhetoric was Don Jr\u2019s reaction to the near-fatal 2022 home invasion attack on Paul Pelosi<\/a>, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A deranged intruder, bent on harming the Speaker, instead attacked Paul Pelosi in their San Francisco home, and fractured his skull with a hammer.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Despite Trumpworld Outrage And FCC Scrutiny Of Jimmy Kimmel, Immediate Changes Unlikely At ABC Stations<\/a><\/p>\n

Don Jr.\u2019s social media post depicted a pair of underwear and a hammer, expressing that Trump Jr had found his Paul Pelosi Halloween costume (the 82-year-old Pelosi happened to be in his underwear when he heard and confronted the assailant in the wee hours of the morning).<\/p>\n

On separate occasions, Trump Jr.\u00a0has compared transgender people to terrorists and made other polarizing comments. Will it matter?<\/p>\n

There is precedent for TV personalities having to answer for boorish comments made on social media and on television. Longtime Jeopardy! producer Mike Richards was fired as host<\/a> only one day after being named as permanent replacement<\/a> for the late Alex Trebek<\/a>, after podcast remarks he made<\/a> nearly a decade earlier resurfaced. Richards had made disparaging comments about women\u2019s bodies and out-of-bounds discourse on Jewish and Asian people as well as little people and the mentally disabled.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Donald Trump\u2019s White House State Dinner For King Charles Photos: Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Ivanka Trump & More<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon has not confirmed the WSJ report about exploratory talks to revive The Apprentice and make Trump Jr host, and it is not clear if Trump Jr is even in the loop. But a cordial relationship with owner Bezos and the Trump White House continues to evolve that might make a skeptic wonder if it would make any difference.<\/p>\n

If the WSJ report is accurate, it would be a test of the cordial relationship between Amazon\u2019s Bezos and the Trump Clan. Bezos and his wife were among those who just attended the State Dinner for King Charles<\/a>. This after Bezos reportedly killed a planned endorsement of Trump\u2019s opponent Kamala Harris in the Washington Post and after Amazon paid a reported $40 million for the documentary Melania. In its report Wednesday night, the WSJ said 70% of that movie money went directly to the first lady. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Donald Trump\u2019s White House State Dinner For King Charles Photos: Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Ivanka Trump & More<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is how SNL\u2018s \u201cWeekend Update\u201d covered Trump\u2019s Pelosi post:<\/p>\n

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