{"id":52308,"date":"2026-05-01T11:20:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/52308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:20:36","slug":"trump-on-don-jr-hosting-apprentice-revival-hed-be-probably-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/52308\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump On Don Jr Hosting ‘Apprentice’ Revival: “He’d Be Probably Good”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWhether or not talk of a revival of The Apprentice<\/a> at Amazon<\/a> and a generational handover is real, speculation finally has made its way to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe former host of the NBC competition series and its Celebrity Apprentice spinoff was asked Thursday what he thought about bringing the mothership show back and whispers of Donald Trump<\/a> Jr. as the new frontman.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWell, I\u2019ve been hearing it, \u201d Donald Trump said of the Apprentice revival talk reported by the Wall Street Journal<\/a> late Wednesday. POTUS was responding to a question from Fox News<\/a>\u2018 Peter Doocy after an Executive Order signing ceremony today at the White House. \u201cSo I\u2019ve been hearing that you know a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWarming up to what long has been seen as Trump\u2019s favorite part of his varied (to put it mildly) career, the onetime Emmy nominee added: \u201cWe had a great success, 14 seasons, and The Apprentice was a tremendous success. So we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for his eldest son taking on the big \u201cYou\u2019re fired!\u201d chair on any new version of the Apprentice from the House of Bezos, Trump offered a lukewarm endorsement. \u201cHe\u2019s a good guy,\u201d the 79-year-old said of his 48-year-old son, who appeared on the O.G. Apprentice as a judge and on-air adviser from 2006-15. \u201cHe\u2019d be probably good,\u201d his father added today with what may or may not have been sarcasm. \u201cHe\u2019s got a little charisma going. You need a little charisma for that sucker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYeah, they told me about it, we\u2019ll see,\u201d the elder Trump concluded about a possible new life for the now-MGM<\/a> TV-owned property created in 2004 by Mark Burnett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tDonald Trump and Mark Burnett on The Celebrity Apprentice set in 2010<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBill Tompkins\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile news of a new Apprentice seemed to catch almost everyone outside the Rupert Murdoch-owned WSJ by surprise, sources close to Amazon have cautioned about reading too much into any return to the boardroom any time soon.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhatever discussion that may have been about the show was more in the standard vein of Amazon execs looking over IP that the company owns and kicking a tire or two at most. \u201cSince our acquisition of MGM, we have had preliminary internal discussions about what\u2019s next for\u00a0The Apprentice\u00a0as a property,\u201d an Amazon spokesperson said. \u201cThe show is not in active development, and any reporting on details of the show or names of potential hosts would be purely speculative.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne individual close to events floated that if the idea of more Apprentice came from anywhere, it was probably the Trumps or someone in their inner circle. \u201cThat show is everything to [the president],\u201d the source told Deadline. \u201cBurnett brought him back from obscurity. The kids are always jockeying to get his attention, so maybe this was that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn that context, Don Jr. did better than most today. <\/p>\n

\n\tExiting The Apprentice in 2015 for his first successful run at the Oval Office<\/a>, the elder Trump was less than generous in his appraisal of Arnold Schwarzenegger as his replacement and the host of the 16th and final season. Instead of the Terminator star and ex-California governor, Trump stumped for his eldest daughter and longtime on-air sidekick Ivanka to get the gig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether or not talk of a revival of The Apprentice at Amazon and a generational handover is real,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[205,12,75,5108,3146,31940,32098,12918,74,625],"class_list":{"0":"post-52308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-donald-trump-jr","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-donald-trump-jr","11":"tag-electionline","12":"tag-fox-news","13":"tag-mark-burnett","14":"tag-mgm","15":"tag-the-apprentice","16":"tag-trump","17":"tag-wall-street-journal"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116499056446479979","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}