The Apprentice-Thoughts on The Donald
Published May 14, 2005
I am reminded of a blind item posted just recently on my blog Gossip, Speculation, Rumination.
It was a blind item so there's no guarantee that the answer is Donald Trump.
Which famously wealthy absentee father told his young daughter at a recent reunion: "Honey, I had dinner with Harvey Weinstein last night. Do you know who that is?" Sniped his (also famous) ex-wife: "What a schmuck! She's 10 years old - do you think she's going to know who Harvey Weinstein is?"
The popular guess is that the "absentee father" referred to is Donald Trump and the sniping ex-wife is Marla Maples.
Assuming that The Donald is the Dad bragging about his lunch with Harvey Weinstein, well it has to be The Donald. It's so like him.
We must also note that The Donald does take an opportunity to invite the wide-eyed Apprentices to his apartment at least once during each season. Which gives us, the wannabes, a chance to see the opulence in which he is surrounded.
The Donald's apartment is The Donald personified. Every nook and cranny is covered, painted, or gilded with gold, luxurious fabric, and ornate cornices. I must wonder how anyone could ever be comfortable in it.
This is all not to say that Donald Trump is to be denied or somehow doesn't deserve his fame and fortune. God Bless America. The man works at hyping his nothingness and does it well. He knows how to manipulate the media and he knows that hobnobbing with the right sort of folk will always lend an aura of importance, deserved or undeserved.
I'm betting The Donald will never be in the company of the likes of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld.
Anyway, after this past episode, the next to the last, any fool can plainly see that Tana is a boob of the highest order. In fact, I must brag here, during the Boardroom after Tana treated her team mates horrifically, Tana was taken to task for mentioning the idiotry of her team mate's, referring to them in Carolyn's presence as "stooges". It was a dumb and classless thing for Tana to do and it was handsomely mentioned in my Apprentice post this past week.
Kendra, on the other hand, was adored by her team mates and went on to do a much better job than Tana.
We are left at the end with the picture of each of the two women's team mates on the final challenge as they marched into the Board room. The audience, if they've been paying attention, has to know that Tana's about to get a trashing as Kendra will be praised for the leader she is.
I'm predicting Kendra, hands down.
- The Apprentice-Thoughts on The Donald
- Published: May 14, 2005
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Video
- Writer: Patfish
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Randall already won he should have been gentleman enough to give Rebecca the same chance.