Donald Trump has been in the headlines recently mainly because of an assassination attempt on his life, but has also attracted media attention because of his health, and for his strange comments about opponent Kamala Harris.
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Given that his election campaign is now in full-force, many who have been associated with him previously have been speaking out about their experiences with the former president—including producers of The Apprentice.
'Our job was to make him look legitimate'
Bill Pruitt was working as a producer on The Apprentice at the time. In an interview, he talks about how the show also served to make Donald Trump look good. The producer told TV Insider:
We were making him out to be royalty in almost every opportunity. It was our mission to make sure that everybody watching understood that to work for him would be a big deal.
Bill Pruitt also added that the team was put under extreme pressure to make Donald Trump 'look legitimate'. He explained:
Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn’t — but that was our job.
This had also led to Donald Trump being seen as a man with a lot of money and not 'focusing on Trump's bankrupt properties'. It is also questionable to what extent Donald Trump really put his heart and soul into the show. At the very least, the following statement from Bill Pruitt suggests that he was perhaps not fully committed or was simply too busy elsewhere.
He would fire the absolute wrong person. He had no idea what was going on, and he would just make something up… He just had to choose a name. And maybe that was the only name he remembered of the people sitting around.
The studio was filthy
The producers also had something to say about the filming location that Donald Trump certainly won't like. The show was filmed in a part of the infamous Trump Tower, and Bill Pruitt described the now-politician's office with the following words. He said according to Daily Beast:
When you go into the office and you’re hearing ‘billionaire,’ even ‘recovering billionaire,’ you don’t expect to see chipped furniture, you don’t expect to smell carpet that needs to be refreshed in the worst, worst way.
Parts of the building are also said to have smelled unpleasant. In the book Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success, it is written about how the producers of the series visited one of the floors in Trump Tower. They noticed a strange smell. Yahoo has a quote on the subject:
The first thing they noticed was the stench, a musty carpet odor that followed them like an invisible cloud.
This article has been translated from Oh!MyMag DE.
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Sources used:
TV Insider: 'The Apprentice' Producer Recalls Fixing Donald Trump's Image on 2000s Show
Daily Beast: 'The Apprentice' Producers Were Shocked by Trump's 'Musty Carpet'
Yahoo: 'Apprentice' Producers Recall Particular Set 'Stench' They Just Couldn't Shake Off
