Trump Bows to Reality, Asks Confidants: Should I Do 'The Apprentice' Again?

[Zorro]

And the show’s creator Mark Burnett is intrigued by the money-making potential of a post-presidency reboot, too.

As he begins his final weeks in office, amid a winter surge in coronavirus deaths, President Donald Trump has mentioned to confidants that he’s thinking about resurrecting The Apprentice or The Celebrity Apprentice reality TV show, two people with direct knowledge of the situation, and another person close to the president, tell The Daily Beast.

Among his inner orbit of family, political aides, and advisers, it is yet another sign that, despite the president’s public insistence that he won the 2020 election, he recognizes that he has lost and that his ongoing legal crusade to cancel Joe Biden’s victory will come up short.

In the past two weeks, the people familiar with the matter note, Trump has casually slipped into conversation lines such as, “How would you like to see The Apprentice come back?” and “Remember The Apprentice?”

The president has also bragged about how much of a ratings draw and money-maker the series was for him and creator and Trump pal Mark Burnett, and that if he wanted to, he could do it again. Whether a network would have him is another question. The Apprentice aired formerly on NBC. But that was an era before Trump was president. And the controversy of his time in office will likely follow him after he leaves.

Also unclear is to what extent Trump and Burnett have made contact this month. But Burnett has been talking up the prospect and has told associates he sees a revived Apprentice as a potential huge money spinner, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-bows-to-reality-asks-confidants-should-i-do-the-apprentice-again

Gawd I hope not...

[blueinredohio]

1. Who's going to be on the show?

There's only a handful of people that want anything to do with him.

[IcyPeas]

6. there's always people looking for their 15 minutes of fame.

[onethatcares]

26. all the "very good" people he hired.

and already fired.

It won't have the same oomph though. No one reacts to getting fired by twitter the same as in person.

[tman]

2. Couldn't care less.

[LakeArenal]

15. Right? So many things to focus on.

[hlthe2b]

3. I doubt his supporters would be sufficient to assure ratings and viewership beyond the first few

episodes. I never watched the first rendition and would join countless millions in boycotting the next.

[unblock]

4. if would be the funniest show on tv, if you're into cringe comedy....

[Kittycow]

5. Just change it to the loser that week

has to be hunted like big game. That would make him and his ilk very happy.

[brush]

7. This is not "The Onion"? Pls tell me it is.

If not, it means this sad creature, sitting in the WH and completely neglecting his duties on covid, the cratering economy and an unprecedented security breach, is fantasizing in his own little world of reviving a TV show which portrayed him as an actual success instead of the loser he is.

A made up reality show was the high point of his life and he thinks he can re-create the "magic".

Unbelievably pathetic that that represents his best prospect for his post-presidential life. I think the NY AG and Manhattan DA beg to differ.

[eShirl]

8. Prison Apprentice!

I might actually watch that one...

[apcalc]

9. Maybe he can teach the contestants his skills at FAILING!

[Midnight Writer]

10. It will run on OANN and feature Trump winnowing down a cast of wannabe dictators

Assignments to contestants could be caging children, maximizing deaths after a virus is introduced, destroying independent media, jailing political opponents.

[DFW]

11. Absolutely!!

It will be a thrill to all 28 people who watch it.

[Efilroft Sul]

12. No, Mr. President, you should do time.

[OAITW r.2.0]

13. Enter your chance to be humiliated by the Bioggest Loser!

The filing fee to enter the lottery to be selected is only $25,000 dollars*



*Payable to the Trump Re-election campaign.

[malaise]

14. I hope he does it - it will flop in three months

His act is more tired than a corpse

[MineralMan]

16. I doubt any network would be interested in The Apprentice, frankly.

Maybe OANN. I think Trump is dreaming. That era on TV is past. Still, it's good that he's recognizing he's going to be out of work, shortly. Had he not been such a wastrel, he'd have plenty of money to retire on, instead of being in debt beyond any ability to replay.

[yellowcanine]

17. Can he do the show from federal prison?

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Any network that runs that show will face massive boycotts. Nt

[AntiFascist]

19. NBC needs to do a special SNL version where Trump gets his wish, but he's the one who gets fired n/t

[redstatebluegirl]

20. Fox will take him, no question.

[hedda_foil]

22. Sure, but change the name to something snappier. Like The Biggest Loser!

[TexasBushwhacker]

23. Mr. Uber Christian Mark Burnett

wants to work with the pussy grabber again. Pathetic!

[tanyev]

24. OMG, can't you just spend the rest of your life playing golf and picking curtains for your lieberry?

[newdayneeded]

25. Call it "The Cabinet"

The show would only last 2 episodes before everyone is fired. lol

[Buckeyeblue]

27. Call it Apprentice--World Dictators

The world's 12 biggest dictators compete in weekly challenges to see who is the most ruthless, hosted by wannabe dictator Trump.

"I would have made a great dictator," Trump says longingly into the camera each week.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

28. We the People, to Trump: "YOU'RE FIRED!"

IRL

We should do our own reality TV show, in which Trump is always the hapless employee.

Each episode could be based on just one of his F*** ups as POTUS. At the end of the episode, we could explain in detail exactly how he failed miserably on the particular F*** up illustrated in the epsiode as our employee, each episode ending with Trump sitting in a chair as a panel of jurists shouts, in unison.

YOU'RE FIRED!

The show could go on for decades, illustrating one of Trump's failures per episode, and Trump would lose, over and over and over again, for eternity, in reruns, after the show was cancelled.