A TV producer who oversaw the first five seasons of President Trump’s former reality television show “The Apprentice” says those working behind the scenes often “struggled to make Trump seem coherent.”
In an interview with The New Yorker for the magazine’s Jan. 7 issue, Katherine Walker said “we cleaned it up so that he was his best self.”
“He wouldn’t read a script — he stumbled over the words and got the enunciation all wrong,” Walker said. “But off the cuff he delivered the kind of zesty banter that is the lifeblood of reality television.”
Walker credited Trump with coining his own famous “You’re fired” catchphrase, but said NBC’s “Apprentice” reinvigorated his image as a successful businessman.
“I don’t think any of us could have known what this would become,” she said. “But Donald would not be president had it not been for that show.”
The lengthy piece in The New Yorker argues that Mark Burnett, the former executive producer of “The Apprentice,” helped pave Trump’s path to the presidency by ending a downward slope in his professional life and giving him the appearance of a tycoon.
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Interesting that Trump couldn’t read a script, but he could “banter.” As president, Trump sounds presidential when he delivers a prepared speech, but off the cuff or in his tweets, he sounds like a complete idiot.
The show had to make Donnie into this big shot tycoon. Confirms what I have believed – that he is not the rich, successful businessman his PR and his fans say he is.
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