It’s all Mark Burnett, again. He could release hours of Trump hot-micing farts and falling asleep at his fake-executive table.
The main takeaway of The Apprentice was that producers scrambled every episode to make narrative sense of Trump’s “You’re Fired” diktats, because his decisions were invariably capricious and had nothing to do with the actual performance of the contestants. Burnett and his production team single-handedly concocted a narrative of Trump as “A Competent CEO”, a lie which was inoculated into the brains of viewers* over the course of 10 years, and carries on to this day.
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*(I am a recovering survivor.)
