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NEW: Mark Burnett, nominated by Trump for special envoy to the UK. Bet it’s payback for not releasing that “N-word” tape. Remember, The Apprentice is where the con started. The boardroom was a set, and the ‘billionaire’ Trump was a myth. Without it, would there ever have been a President Trump?

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Thanks. In the context of Trump having bashed Obama, I bet the NYT never covered the fact that in the 2005 Apprentice final episode, Trump asked the first black male winner (Randal Pinkett) about sharing his win with his white female runner up. Wildly racist.

Even back then he was a pawn in their game. You don't get a TV show of your own in this world without paying a price. That whole thing was a set-up for what is taking place today. Except most people believe it's all real. It's not, any more than Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.

What!! That Mark Burnett?! “Burnett moved to Los Angeles, where his jobs included working as a nanny and as a T-shirt salesman on nearby Venice Beach.” -Wikipedia Qualified. ding ding ding

It's good to see that VP-elect Trump is finally taking into account the requirements of the position, and the suitability of the candidates, before awarding the position to someone with no qualifications.

Good to know. I watched the final episode of the first Survivor. 🤔🤨 Never watched another episode of reality TV. I remember that Harlan Ellison used to write articles on television and culture. Collected in two paperbacks. The Glass Teat And the Other Glass Teat Who is a modern writer to read?🤷👍

Thanks. I watch TV commercials especially with a keen ear and eye for social conditioning beyond just touting the product. A new user of a home cleaning service gushes over how she fired her housekeeper the save some money. It's a scheme to lowball their way in and then come the add-ons.

Another insidious distribution channel of the GOP "Gaslighting Our Public" Consolidating elite control of power & wealth while DISTRACTING from systemic inequality cultivating a culture idolizing ultra-rich while ignoring structural barriers they REINFORCE to maintain their dominance.

Is he a special envoy because he for some reason cannot be made ambassador? The obvious reason for rejecting his credentials would be the fact that Rape and Fraud aren't reason enough to not work for somebody and he might cover up rape and fraud by his employees or himself.

My question is there some other reason? I mean, your giving a guy for whom rape isn't a dealbreaker diplomatic immnity in a country 30 million plus women.. so refusing his credentials makes sense.

With Trump's appointment of Mark Burnett as Special Envoy (he rehabilitated Trump's business image), when asked to comment, Burnett said: 'I hope I can the rehab image people have that Trump is totally incompetent. Just like I did with the Apprentice, I know I can work lipstick-on-a-pig magic.' /s

I believe Mark Burnett should be tired and feathered and run out of town on a rail. You're right, Trump would never be the person he is today if it weren't for Mark Burnett. We would know jack shit about Donald Trump it weren't for that damn TV show. Which was awful. Reality TV that's an oxymoron

Mark Burnett used Hollywood artifice and misleading editing to rehabilitate Trump's reputation and sell America the total myth that Trump was a successful businessman and a smart, coherent decisionmaker. Without "The Apprentice" and "The Celebrity Apprentice," Trump likely would never win in 2016.

Stephen Schwartz@atomicanalyst.bsky.social

See also this 2018 profile of “The Apprentice” producer Mark Burnett—who more than anyone turned Trump into an American icon—which tellingly explains how episodes were reverse engineered to make sense of Trump’s frequent, uninformed, “shoot-from-the-hip” decisions: www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

Not that this is very laudatory, but thusfar he seems to be the least weird and leased abnormal than anyone else he’s nominated for anything. The issue of the secret tapes and the degree to which the Trump program was falsely promoted as “reality” may be interesting lines of questioning. Trump

He'd be disappointed purely by the fact that Donnie didn't achieve anything without begging others to help him. He'd be disappointed that he kneels to other men and pretends to be strong. And you are right,his father was racist scum too.

Him saying the N word means nothing to his voters. Barnett is being rewarded for making a zero into a fake business man and star who is famous and now the biggest con man in the world. He owes Barnett for everything

He’s also bus grab them by the pussys mark burnett right? Nice reward for downplaying the event in the media. Coverups, like his thick not at all realistic orange tan makeup. The only cover up he actually stands by

👋🏻 Never! By the time the show aired, I already knew Trump was a D-level, mob wannabe, bankrupted, New York punch line, who embarrassingly promoted himself as a Playboy and successful millionaire.

All of MAGA is smoke and mirrors. Less than 40% of Americans back this toxic ideology. It and its lead spectacle Trump are all a massive hype bubble created by a handful of sick nameable billionaires. We will crush their wealth. #DefundMAGA

Burnett made many people believe that Trump was a great businessman instead of a shady multiple bankrupt and hustler with mob ties. And now he’s getting rewarded for inflicting this madman on the world. Perfect.🙁

The Apprentice: The Trump Grift And His 'Media Partners' thread🧵 bsky.app/profile/edhi...

Ed Hirsch@edhirsch.bsky.social

"The Apprentice": Corporate Mainstream Media Crooks CBS & NBC Reject TV Spots During Debates Citing News Standards; Distributor Briarcliff Calls Out Networks For “Timidity & Cowardice” deadline.com/2024/10/the-...

EVERYONE knows exactly what Burnett is getting paid for- it’s so grotesque and sleazy. Burnett should be embarrassed. Everything DT touches turns to shit. It’s his superpower.