and numerous takes were made and edited together to make sure the "show" was correct.

Donald didn't even pick the winner and losers.

The producers edited out the garbage talk and left in the scripted bits he got right.

A piece of sheetrock or plaster fell in one of his buildings, clocked her on the head, and you could see the Dotard looking very skeptical about her claim of injury - and you could see he had a level of animosity towards HER making the claim.

Omarosa was "fired" shortly after - but viewers were picking up on "this thing" with him even then.

I stopped watching after Season 1 - but I did think Bill Rancic was going to be a good Apprentice, and he sure had staying power as a new celebrity! His wife is still selling clothes on shopping networks!

i will allow that he didn't call people "dogs" or generally use many of the other personal insults he now routinely uses on twitter.

however, he did encourage the worst backstabbing and cutthroat environment, and he did treat people as incompetent or "disasters" if their team ended up one dollar shorter than the other team.

there was no room in his brain for good ideas that just didn't happen to work out. if the other team won with a terrible idea that didn't sell, but at the last minute, they called a rich friend to buy up enough to make them win, then they were geniuses and the losing team (with the better product) were idiots and fools.

one could argue that this wasn't donnie's real management style, it was only for the sake of a tv program meant to show boardroom drama, but it turns out it *is* his management style. or actually, his real management style is *even worse*.


it always struck me, watching that show, why on earth would anyone want to work for such a disaster. he embodied every bad trait of every bad manager.

It was only tolerable because Trump was onscreen for the last 10 mins of the show. I used to laugh when he had his children in the boardroom giving advice and critique to people who had actually EARNED their place in life.

I didn't like Trump, I watched it inspite of him not because of him. I enjoyed the show, the interaction between the contestants was interesting. I like the non-celebrities versions best and earlier episodes where he had the older fellow George as an advisor instead of the later ones with his kids.

was that he had control of himself when it mattered to sponsors.

He could control himself now if congress did their job of checking him.