The Daily Populous Friday September 20th, 2024 night edition
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Donald Trump was so bad at picking who to fire during his stint hosting The Apprentice that the producers of the show would retroactively edit the show to make him look better.

“Our job then was to reverse-engineer the show and to make him not look like a complete moron,” a member of the production team told the authors of new book Lucky Loser, New York Times journalists Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig.

The producers of the program would have to go back and edit the show to make the person who Trump chose to fire look bad, even if they had performed quite well during the tasks at hand.

Buettner noted that one of the unexpected firings was that of David Gould, a medical doctor with an MBA.

The co-author told CNN on Tuesday night that Gould was a “really amazing guy who a lot of the producers thought was going to win that whole series, that season. He would just run the whole gauntlet. But Trump fired him the very first episode.

“And people in the control and producers are like, ‘Oh, my God, what do we do with this now?’” he added. “But they had this other moment because it was entertainment, not reality, that ‘oh my gosh, this is really great because this is so unpredictable,’” he added. “So that quality that was really bad for him in business was solid gold on the show. Then they would just re-edit everything.”

Donald Trump became a television star in the US as host of The Apprentice ( AP )

The authors also addressed Trump’s use of the name “John Barron” to speak to the media to make himself look better and to make people think he was wealthier than he actually was in order to appear on the Forbes rich list.

“He even named his son Barron,” Craig noted, adding that Trump began using the name when he started working with his father Fred Trump after college.

“We went back to old newspapers and we found the name John Barron, where there [were] classified ads where he would be selling things and it went back to the exchange number for the Trump house. So it was Donald,” Craig said. “He was using it as a pseudonym.”

The success of the show, and its celebrity spin-off, is credited with burnishing Trump’s public image as a successful businessman ( Getty Images )

She added that Trump would use the name when he wanted to hire a maintenance worker or when selling his brother’s boat. Fred Trump Jr died at the age of 42.

“So it was just this crazy origin story of John Barron that we’ve always wondered where it came from,” Craig said. “And we found it in the classified ads of old newspapers in New York.”

cinnapear on September 19th, 2024 at 14:03 UTC »

Somewhere I read the description from someone who worked on the show: that Trump is so stupid that, meeting him, it actually throws you off.

Starbucks__Lovers on September 19th, 2024 at 13:57 UTC »

The guy who decided to take Trump’s SATs decided it was okay

The podiatrist who decided to give Trump Vietnam deferments thought it was okay

The Wharton professors who let trump slide to graduation thought it was okay

The lawyers who paid off the women trump sexually assaulted thought it was okay

The guy who ghostwrote and pretty much made up everything in his book thought it was okay

The producers of The Apprentice decided to edit Trump to "stop him from looking like a complete moron" and thought it was okay.

The Producers of the Apprentice also decided to comply with their NDAs when Trump decided to possibly drop N-bombs and say racist shit thought it was okay

The bank lenders who keep giving trump money despite his bankruptcies thought it was okay

Billy Bush and Access Hollywood had video of trump bragging about sexually assaulting women and everyone involved thought it was okay

Trump is elected president and attempts to bribe Ukraine to take down political opponents and congress thought it was okay

Trump attempts to overthrow the election certification in 2021 and yet again congress thought it was okay

Trump is convicted of 34 felonies, but the judge decided to give him a pass on sentencing until after November for no discernible reason and thinks it’s okay.

I’m fucking tired. Just one person had to say “I refuse to let this shit slide” anytime before 2015 and yet we find ourselves in the universe where people don't have a spine.

Bored_guy_in_dc on September 19th, 2024 at 13:08 UTC »

Thanks for that, idiots. Could have saved us all a big headache if you had just let him run his mouth back then.