{"id":764276,"date":"2026-04-30T19:33:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:33:19","slug":"donald-trump-jr-didnt-know-anything-about-the-apprentice-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/764276\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr, didn’t know anything about The Apprentice reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDonald Trump<\/a> Jr., has been as intrigued to hear about The Apprentice<\/a> reboot as you are.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe businessman and president\u2019s son had come up in internal Hollywood discussions for a potential reboot of the hit network series, according to a new Wall Street Journal report<\/a>. The boardroom-competition show would be brought back by current rights-holder Amazon<\/a> MGM, with Trump Jr. \u2014 who holds a number of executive positions at the Trump Organization and affiliated businesses \u2014 sitting at the head of the table making hiring and firing decisions.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the story suggested that the discussions were only internal, and now a source confirms that: A person close to Trump Jr., tells The Hollywood Reporter that the president\u2019s son was not aware he was being considered and learned about it from reading the paper Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat doesn\u2019t mean it couldn\u2019t happen, of course, or that Trump, Jr., couldn\u2019t now run with it. But it does paint a picture of a series at a very nascent stage, if that. An Amazon spokesperson told<\/a> THR on Wednesday that \u201cSince our acquisition of MGM, we have had preliminary internal discussions about what\u2019s next for The Apprentice as a property. The 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\tThe Journal reported that Amazon was discussing potentially rebooting the hit franchise, which ran for 15 seasons on NBC (14 with Donald Trump) and cemented the tycoon\u2019s status as a 21st-century media figure. At 48, Trump Jr., would be brought in to give the series a new look, though after a decade of Trump prominence in politics, he brings baggage his father didn\u2019t when the elder Trump began hosting the show in 2004.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe interest from Amazon raises the specter of another Trump family project: Melania, which elicited a backlash and calls of political bribery from Democrats when the tech giant paid a reported $40 million<\/a> to snap up rights to the documentary last year. That development arc was different, however, with the Trump family actively shopping the project to buyers. <\/p>\n

\n\tAmazon came into the rights to The Apprentice after buying MGM in 2022. That studio had itself acquired the rights when it bought Mark Burnett Prods. eight years earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether Trump would want one of his children to occupy the TV boardroom he once ruled over is an open question. He famously disliked <\/a>when Arnold Schwarzenegger took over his spot toward the end of the show\u2019s run but has shown willingness to promote his children to positions of power. <\/p>\n

\n\tHow the president\u2019s oldest son would fare as a reality-show staple also remains to be seen. His podcast Triggered with Donald Trump Jr., has been a reasonably sized hit<\/a> since launching several years ago. But reality entertainment is a different beast than culture-wars gabbing, and many prominent personalities have struck out as they move to oversee a narrative-based competition telecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Jr., has been as intrigued to hear about The Apprentice reboot as you are. The businessman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":764277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[2431,133120,69,1605,171,6337,234263,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-764276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-mgm","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-entertainment","tag-reality-tv","tag-the-apprentice","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116495333172497742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}