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Originally Posted by dino7c
I actually liked Trump on the apprentice...he acted like a decent guy from what I remember...
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Really? I used to watch The Apprentice, and my impression of Trump was never that he was a "decent guy." He always carried himself like a bloviating, self-interested narcissist on the show, and there were several instances in which I actively wondered if he had even the slightest bit of business acumen, or if anyone actually took him seriously. In his boardroom appearances his attention was ephemeral, and he was so easily triggered by the most meaningless things. He was so volatile that it was impossible to imagine how he achieved any success through such toxicity. His handling of people who "worked" for him made me cringe, and that was part of the appeal of the show. The Trump we see today was easily projected from the Trump of 2005 when he was a reality TV-show personality.
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After posting this, I found a really terrific analysis of The Apprentice by NPR that was published in 2017. It is illuminating.
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/06/55521...the-apprentice