Apprentice' editor reveals how they covered for Trump, made him appear wealthy, of sound mind,

[dixiegrrrrl]

Braun said the team of editors would have to “reverse-engineer the show to make it look like his judgment had some basis in reality. Sometimes it would be very hard to do, because the person he chose did nothing. We had to figure out how to edit the show to make it work, to show the people he chose to fire as looking bad—even if they had done a great job.”

Trump’s frequent lies also presented a problem. Braun explained:

“He would say things like, ‘We had a million applicants and we chose this small group to be contestants on the show,’” Braun recalled. “And I would turn to my producer and say, ‘A million applicants? Really?’ And the producer would shake his head no. Trump would just take numbers and throw them around. I mean, from Season One to Season Two, he said his net worth tripled. One day he said he had a billion dollars and then later it would become three billion; he just made stuff up.”

More:
https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2016/11/an-apprentice-mea-cupla/

THEY are responsible for making him look appealing to his nutty future voters.

[guillaumeb]

1. Recommended.

Fantasy is so much better than reality for Trump voters. so they embrace the fantasy.

[dalton99a]

2. The person behind all this? Jeff Zucker

the creator of Donald Trump the TV celebrity

[RockaFowler]

9. Not really

It was created by Mark Burnett (Survivor fame)
Kevin Reilly was the head of entertainment at the time in 2004

Zucker was the head of the network itself, though

[Raster]

18. Yep, Mark Burnett... devout Christian and keeper of the tapes that showed tRump*....

...sexually harassed female contestants on the set of The Apprentice. But hey, when you're a star, right?

And it's no problem with your "holier-than-thou_ personae seemingly conflicts with your actual actions when there's money to be made, eh? But hey, it's Hollywood, right?

[stuffmatters]

51. Mark Burnett's Survivor made it ok to lie, do anything you could get away with to win.

I've been thinking since Nov of the moment that Richard Hatch won because he was best at lying. It was such a shock to our collective respect for the truth, honesty; America let out a collective gasp, but that moment forever injured American morality.

Trump's White House has been aptly labelled The Survivor White House.

[gratuitous]

33. Plenty of blame to go around

NBC aired this shitshow season after season, and I'd guess that decision didn't rest with just one person at 30 Rock (though I suppose it's possible).

[dixiegrrrrl]

35. Never saw the show, and had no idea it..or versions of it, lasted so damn long. n/t

[Doreen]

40. I saw the show once....once. He had no clue about the

business he was having one of his contestants try to start. I was sitting there naming everything that was being done wrong and what was not being done. The contestant did not get fired and if they had tried to start my business like they did I would have fired them. It just proves that he does not know how to really do anything but throw what money he may or may not have around.

[lpbk2713]

45. Same here. I never wanted to watch crap like that.

I knew what an asshole Trump was from his appearances on Letterman.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. More important is Donald Trump knows nothing, absolutely NOTHING

about business, real estate, golf courses, hotels, etc.

He fails constantly and is bailed out by organized crime in America and Russia.

He could not answer basic questions that any real estate or businessperson would know, because he knows nothing.

Nothing.

So no wonder 50 million Americans love him.

[dalton99a]

5. Precisely.

The dumbass knows shit

[groundloop]

22. AND bailed out by 6 bankruptcies - which screwed over employees, contractors, and creditors

[Eliot Rosewater]

31. I keep asking myself who could support such a vile person.

Then I saw his speech yesterday in W VA, or about 5 seconds of it then I had to turn it off because I literally get sick when I see or hear him, but the people standing behind him, I felt sorry for them, I actually did.

These are really dumb people and what they all have in common is racism. For that reason I dont feel sorry for them actually, but I do realize they are not capable of learning, growing, etc.

They cant, wont, not ever.

[3catwoman3]

47. If I need to travel outside the US, I am...

...going to have a T-shirt made with your avatar on it!

[Wounded Bear]

4. So much for "reality" TV...

[Tanuki]

6. It would have been helpful if he had spilled this before the election.

[jrthin]

11. Thank you! Where was he when this info might have

been useful to the voting public?

[TNNurse]

44. Without this, they had plenty of information.

They chose to hate Hillary Clinton and anyone who had been associated with that Black guy.

Every time he opened his mouth he gave plenty of reasons to know he was a bad idea.

[emulatorloo]

15. Article dated 11/7/2016. The Cinemontage article he sites is from 10/12/2017

http://cinemontage.org/2016/10/editing-trump-reality-tv-star-who-would-be-president/

[Tanuki]

23. Thanks. I didn't notice that. I do remember that several people were

hinting that there were all sorts of damaging tidbits in the Apprentice raw footage, but nobody came forward with actual tapes. Then again, the Access Hollywood pussy grabbing tape didn't sink his campaign. Future generations will find this chapter of our history hard to comprehend...I know I do!

[emulatorloo]

25. I can't comprehend it either! All the warning signs about the lying, misogyny, racism were there

But here we are. Just crazy.

[heaven05]

7. not surprising

Last edited Sun Aug 6, 2017, 02:23 PM - Edit history (1)

he seemed mentally unfit during campaign, never watched any of his television garbage, and he is proving it more and more. I hope bannon edit: gen kelly can keep his sock puppet potus from going completely over the edge and 'pushing the button'..... As I was called out by an awake DUer on bannon, he is just as crazy as his sock puppet potus and a racist zealot for white supremacy to boot

[pangaia]

32. Bannon?

He's as sick as Dts.

[heaven05]

50. sorry, had a senior moment

you are correct....I'm sure I meant something or someone else, but for the life of me...can't remember. prez bannon is a sick racist fuck.....he, his sock puppet...two peas in a pod....maybe I meant to say Gen. Kelly....

[pangaia]

52. LOLOLOL That's ok. You're forgiven.

I'm 73 and if I look up at the conductor there is a decent chance I will get lost in the music.

[heaven05]

58. that's funny

..... yeah at 69 I turn the corner...lost....

[pangaia]

59. It's not funny at all.

BTW, If you have trouble finding your car in the huge grocery parking lot and so always park by the big #3 on the pole,...., buy a red one. IT WORKS !!!!!!!!!!!

A red car, that is. Not a red pole.

[dixiegrrrrl]

60. EXcept when your red car is an old smaller one

and not visible among the SUVs of today.
Ask me how I know....

[pangaia]

61. true that.. I got a Honda HRV. Even IT is smaller than most SUV.

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Both parties in Congress have united to prevent him from:

1. triggering a nuke on his own
2. firing Mueller
3. lifting sanctions.

Imagine that.....Congress worked together to stand up to a dangerous threat...from the WH.

[BigmanPigman]

41. Too bad there isn't...

4. destroying what's left of the country (impeachment or 25 Amend).

[BlancheSplanchnik]

42. Yay them...

The repubs cooperating now could have cooperated in governing with President Obama, guiding the country towards wise long term decisions; then we might not now be infected with mass raving foamy-mouthed idiocy.

[frazzled]

8. Read also this fascinating article from the New Yorker

Out just this week from their always perspicacious television critic, Emily Nussbaum

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/the-tv-that-created-donald-trump

[nolabear]

28. Thanks for that. He knows what a product he is even as he doesn't.

That one believes hype like no one else, and then embodies it so thoroughly that those who are dying to believe just get sucked in. This is a great look at the web.

[oberliner]

10. He was always saying between takes, Id like to drill her, lewdly referring to female crew members

“Trump’s favorite word was ‘drill,’” recalled Braun. “He was always saying between takes, ‘I’d like to drill her,’ lewdly referring to female crew members working on set. He couldn’t help himself making comments about women and the way they looked. He also had comments about women he found less attractive. There was no question he took the men a lot more seriously than the women.”

http://cinemontage.org/2016/10/editing-trump-reality-tv-star-who-would-be-president/

[Glimmer of Hope]

54. Neanderthal pig.

[unblock]

12. what's peculiar is that the apprentice showed him as a horrendous person to work for.

i get that these shows want to show conflict and drama.

but it's plausible that people might want to work for chef gordon ramsey. even though he's clearly an *sshole, but there's enough in that show to make it clear (mostly in the quieter moments) that he actually is a very talented chef that people can learn from.

the apprentice, on the other hand, never showed donnie doing anything to remotely indicate management competence. all he did was pit people against each other; create an environment that encouraged people to lie and self-promote and to throw co-workers under the bus; be completely results-oriented no matter how it happened; and fire people, mostly for failing to display sufficiently alpha-male characteristics.

again, i get that some of that needs to happen for the sake of tv drama, but the problem with the whole concept is then that there's no good way for donnie to show he actually has anything to offer a potential hire. even before i knew anything about his politics, i would never, ever want to work for someone like that. he always came across as someone you couldn't possibly learn anything from, except by counter-example.

[emulatorloo]

26. IMHO Ramsay has a softer side he shows, and he has a big heart despite the bluster.

Trump has nothing like that,

[PJMcK]

13. That's showbiz, kid (n/t)

[thbobby]

14. America's look in the mirror

Anyone who didn't know trump was stupid and a con-man lived in denial.

I will always believe that racism played a large part. After 8 years of a black man with impeccable integrity, many needed a white man. Not a woman, but a man.

The fox news viewer loved the hatred. The reality tv watchers fantasized about a lie. Just give us a white man and America will be white again. And a woman would remind us that we are not in our wet dream fantasy of the 1950's.

[MGKrebs]

21. Yup. We were the ones living in denial.

We thought the country had come a long way. But a lot of the "bad" feelings were just suppressed for a while. The racism, the bullying, the sexism...

Suppressing those bad feelings is good, but it takes a long time- many generations- to finally actually achieve a widespread change like that. Eventually maybe it even causes a genetic change, who knows. But we're going to have to start again after this mess is over.

[yardwork]

16. I agree with the OP. The media are RESPONSIBLE for promoting this monster.

[volstork]

17. Would have been helpful to know

this time LAST year...

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Dunno about that...

His base wouldn't have cared. He went out and speechified for a yaer, those who voted for him did not seem to mind that he was the asshole that WE saw him to be.

[emulatorloo]

27. Article is from November 2016.

[FakeNoose]

39. This was all known a year ago

The only thing that hasn't come out yet are all the out-takes that the show's producers have hidden away. Plenty of hints but no tapes yet.

Apparently Cheeto couldn't follow a script - ever - so they just let him run off at the mouth and they edited it all later. They have hundreds of hours of unusable tape of Trump saying racist, sexist, and horribly mean things to people on the show. None of it could be used because it was a "family" show, but the producers still have all of it.

One of these days those tapes are going to be out on the internet.

[Sunlei]

20. behind every successful TV show- there are a great team of editors, handlers, make-up artists.

[eissa]

24. This came out a day before the election

Gee, great timing, right when it could have made such a difference Although to be fair, I doubt it would have changed the minds of the deplorables if it came out any earlier.

[Nailzberg]

56. The editor's claims were published Oct 12 in the magazine for the editors guild

The realityblurred article from Nov 7 is just a rehash.

But yeah, wouldn't have mattered anyway. Trump showed us every day exactly who he was, the deplorables did not care one bit.

[LisaM]

29. They, AND the cable networks all through 2015 and 2016.

I couldn't turn the TV on without one network or another legitimizing his candidacy.

[Botany]

30. It was a fake show about a fake billionare hiring people for make believe jobs

n/t

[Plucketeer]

34. Just another Huckster

peddling money as a religion.

[athenasatanjesus]

36. When I hit the link I got that fake virus warning.

Though looking at the messages here looks like I was the only one.

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. Interesting.....

No problem for me at the link.
But...I have linux and miss some things that Windows seems to find.

[grantcart]

43. If you are blaming editors of a phony reality TV show responsible

for editing when he wasn't a candidate then we should include Bert who hooked up the cable to my TV

[DFW]

46. I can understand how they make him look wealthy

After the 1877 train robbery, Sam Bass was wealthy, too.

Making Trump appear to be of sound mind is a more daunting task. Not even Fox Noise has figured that one out yet.

[old guy]

48. I never saw a single episode.

Have never watched any reality show, nor will I ever watch one.

[Scurrilous]

49. K&R

[Books_Tea_Alone]

53. This speaks to a bigger problem with society

I'm not surprised at the revelations at all. The problem rests in the fact that so much of this country treats reality television as legitimate and more than mere entertainment (not sure if these shows should qualify as entertainment).

We have our first reality POS-ident...shudder to think who is next. Dumbing down of America - not surprised at all that we wound up with such a dangerous clown.

The question is- how do we get back to valuing knowledge and breadth of experience?

[lostnfound]

57. When so many people voted for bush instead of Gore, the obvious disdain for knowledge was disturbing

This country has too many morons who despise smart, earnest people.

They prefer ignorant greedy people.

Maybe it makes them feel better to think, "hey, that could be me!" And they know they aren't ever going to work hard enough to know the stuff that Al Gore knows or Hillary. They hate people they think of as "know-it-alls".

[southerncrone]

55. People have been covering for him his entire life, it seems. All that did was

underscore in his mind that everything he does or says is golden, regardless of how idiotic it is. Every time he was allowed to get away w/lies, exaggerations, or outrageous ideas, he is encouraged to continue that behavior. My question is WHY did people do this instead of call him out & challenge him?