Does anyone get the feeling that Trump hired some Sam-like lackey to sit in a cramped windowless room in the basement and clip any and all articles in any and all periodicals that have a passing reference to him or his show?

The quote from Ereka stating that O. apologized on tape was given BEFORE O.'s View Appearance. Plus, if there were a tape of O. apologizing, I'd think That Ereka/Trump/burnett would have aired it to clear Ereka's name. Which leads me to believe that said tape doesn't really exist at all.

I'm pretty sure that George was introduced as Senior Legal Counsel and an Executive Vice President. Though he has a law degree, I think that he probably does just as much if not more work now in his Vice President capacity.

I remember hearing Trump on Howard Stern promoting the show before it aired. When Howard said he was impressed that on this show, instead of a one-time prize you get to actually get a job and run a company, Donald qualified (multiple times), "well, one of my smaller companies, yes." Though recent articles have Trump talking up how big the salary is, on the Stern show he really painted the entire "prize package" as sort of a starter-exec-job, with a "good" salary.

Yup, George is executive vice-president and senior counsel for The Trump Organization.

George himself said it at the beginning. He was introduced by Trump as his EVP and general counsel, and then in one of the early episodes -- can't remember if it was the first or when he was talking about Sam -- he himself stated that whoever won would be working closely with him.

NY Post article on TD's new book. Essentially excerpts, but quite insightful. I hope the next crop of apprentices read it. The current batch could've used it.

Also in the NY Post from today's Page Six column, a snippet on the kinds of perks TD gets is HERE and in the Sightings portion of the column is a tidbit mentioning Sam and Heidi.

Letter to the editor in today's NY Times from an associate dean at the Yale School of Management about TA. My favorite quotes:

This morning The Donald was interviewed on CNN by Wolf Blitzer and only bits of it referred to the show. I left the room from time to time, and *missed* something about 'Apprentice' -- the slightly after-topic subtitle was saying "charges of racism on Apprentice", but they had already moved on to talking about something else.

Did anybody else see this? I can imagine what the question, but what specifically was The Donald's answer?

I saw it and Tivo'd it. Wolfy and TD were talking about the Omyneurosis/Erika "racial slur" debate. After dinner I will watch it again and post the gist of the interview here.

Yes, I saw the show. The Donald called Omarosa on the carpet for the racism charge. Don't remember his exact quote but if you read between the lines he said she that "O" was full of $h*t. He seemed genuinely angered by the charge.

I saw the beginning of the interview but went out to the store. When I got back Wolf was still talking to him. I didn't catch him addressing Omarosa's lying ass allegations.

Hi,
I also remember George saying this. :)

I think whoever wins will become president of Trump Ice.

Then he should have picked someone who's frigid-Omarosa.

Realtor Magazine does a "Top 30 under 30" feature every year. i found out Katrina will be on the cover. Ick.

Actually, this is a common practice -- there's a whole sub-industry in clip services, whose job it is to do exactly that. Publishers, for example, will hire out clip services (or just get a lowly editorial assistant to do the task) to collect every book review, article, or even brief blurb about books and authors. (I work at a large art museum, and we contract with a clip service to collect every review of every exhibition and exhibition catalogue.) The cramped windowless rooms are usually in highrises, not basements, though. :)

Thanks for that Post article about the appearance issues between the 'ladies' and the lovely Miss Carolyn. ITA with the writer! I've said it before...if they were really, really, really smart (thanks, Katrina!) they would have been watching & imitating her every step of the way...but, then, look what they did instead...gave her no respect! STOO. PID.

I think this right for one reason; this is a new venture and I can't imagine Trump bringing in the winner of his reality show to run an already established subsidiary. I mean, (just guessing) that any company he owns that has been around for any period of time, probably already has a president. And I can't for any reason see someone who has risen through the Trump ranks, by actual real work, just stepping aside for any of these yahoos.

Trump: "Hey president of one of my companies, I need you to move on down to the mail room so the winner of my reality show can take your job for a year."

President of company: "Oh...of course."

Nah - I bet it is Trump Ice.

Hell, then, Troy is perfect: spokesman and president!

"Stop buying that Polish water! Get yourself a real American water---Trump Ice!"

I seriously doubt it is Trump Ice. Instead, I bet that it is something like this: Trump says the company is not created yet, etc. I will bet that it ends up being something Apprentice related, i.e. merchandising, branding, negotiating product placements for the suite, public appearances, etc.

From the South Coast Today article


And it isn't like Trump not to make the most of what he has been given. So whoever The Apprentice turns out to be, I doubt it will be a rise to the top of corporatedom ala Melanie Griffith in Working Girl. More like a "you are famous and you can make Trump Inc more famous. And all we have to do is pay you at most $250,000"

And of course there is the "if you make the 1st year" clause that could withold the 2nd $125,000. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that the winner is offered much more from someone else and takes whatever money they can and runs.

I'd kinda like to see this, if for no other reason than to find out what it is Katrina has done that makes her so fantastic.

There's a funny piece on the Catalog of Cool website about scientists who've uncovered the secret of The Donald's "quantum hair." Quite a convincing explanation, too.

http://www.catalog-of-cool.com/newdigsnews.html

Don't read if you don't want to hear gossip... there's an article about Katrina spilling the beans on the winner in today's New York Post. Albeit a comment made at 2 am at a bar.

According to Katrina, it's Kwame.

So do I, although I'm worried that she's on the list mostly because she's on this show.

I kind of doubt that LLalltheway. Trump has the final two but the decision won't be announced until the live show. Why would any of the rejects know? There is no winner yet. He could be one of those two. I hope not because he hasn't demonstrated any leadership the times he was PM and instead of laughing off Heidi and Oma's lunch fight he should have actually done something about it, like oh, a leader. Is that how he's going deal with interpersonal problems in a company? Plus I'm still disgusted by that stunt at Planet Hollywood.

I posted something similar on the spoiler thread -- the NY Post seems to be fabricating this stuff. I can't take it seriously.

A major newspaper fabricating stories?? I'm shocked to my core!!

Hey there, no maligning the NY Post! Don't you guys know the Post has overtaken the NY Times as the "paper of record?" Of course everything they say is true!

Heh.

Hey, I just post it as I read it!

This makes me very glad I work for a realtor. Last year's feature was actually pretty interesting to see how these people sold the amount of houses they did...one guy promised his clients he would sell their house within 90 days...if it didn't sell by then, he bought it himself...and then sold it off to someone else.

I would love to see how Katrina sold the houses she did...she's in high-priced real estate, right? So are we. The market fluctuates, obviously, here on the south Georgia Coast, our season is just starting and will run through October. I would assume that she has a fuller season being in Miami, so it is possible. But it also depends on her description of "High-Priced". In our case, we sell Luxury Homes that range from about $900K to usually $3-4M. But "High-Priced" could technically start at around $350K. And it is a lot easier to sell several houses at $350K then several at $900K. It's one of those economic equations, that say you can generally sell many more products at a lower price than you can at a higher one. But now I'm confusing myself, probably b/c I didn't pay attention in my highschool Economics class b/c my teacher was an idiot who figured high school students couldn't possibly have enough "life experience" to know anything, and that was the reason I walked out of her class.

Ok, my ADD rant of the day is now complete.

edited to add: sorry about chasing rabbits like bunnies on crack.

The Post seems to have an awful lot of information about this show. The Playboy offer, Nick going back to work, So-and So is the winner according Katrina "I'm sooooooooo drunk *giggle/hiccup* Campins. Trump and The Post are just fucking with us. He's planting stories in the Post so that we have no idea who could win.

Word, Tashanir. There's no way dumbass Katrina could know who DT picks, presuming it's true that the winner will be picked on live TV April 15. And I'm so sure that, full of likker at 2 am, Katrina's info is accurate. Now, if she's saying the person is in the final 2, that's another issue and might be credible.

Llalltheway, just kidding!!

Just caught a commercial that The Donald is scheduled to co-host with Reege on Live with Regis & Kelly tomorrow.

Omarosa in The Hill

Quite a frightening personal statement by Omarosa. She says she's filming a sitcom pilot tomorrow. Hmm...somehow I'm not buying it.

not to mention stating that she's going to try running for congress. Yeah. Let's see how well that goes.

I wouldn't be surprised if it did go well. She's somebody who is going to be successful. Not liked. Or admired. Or respected. But she'll have her titles and syncophants. It's sad really, the sheer number of bullshitters out there who wind up running things.

I ran across a UK publication called Spoof that has a really funny "article" on how TD took over the Vatican and "you're fired!" Pope John Paul II. CLICK HERE

suecadence, you win the prize for posting the most delusional interview I've seen with OkissmyfeetIamastarmama. When will the horror end?

She says she wants to run for office ... nay, for PRESIDENT...and you find the idea of a sitcom frightening? Boy, this country really is fucked politically! (Yes, I'm just kidding.)

Seriously, suecadence, thanks for a link to a truly terrifying article.

Although I must say that I love her comment that she was surprised that she sent in her tape on Sunday and was called about an audition on Thursday. As she says:
Yeah, mission accomplished in that department, evidently.

The dates in that article don't really add up. Isn't she supposed to be 29? If so, then she
wouldn't have entered Howard in '97, it would have been more like '93. And then she would have worked for Gore right after graduation in '97. Maybe she means she graduated in '97?

I also have to say that that article doesn't represent the Omarosa I saw on the show. And Bill, Kwame and Troy hang out with her?

Is it really possible she could be filming a pilot already?

I can't say this with absolute certainty, but I'm pretty sure her timing is way off, making this another one of her out-and-out lies.

If I understand the process correctly, ideas are pitched to the networks in January. They ask to see pilots of certain concepts, and they start looking at those right about now (which means the pilots are already filmed), with final decisions about the fall season made in May. No one knew who Assy was in time for the January pitches. And even if someone said "Hey, I'm inspired by Assy -- I want a sitcom about a delusional bitch who thinks she's really a strong black woman," I suspect they'd go for a real actress. Someone with, like, training and experience? And, let's face it, someone who's prettier. Plus, Assy's too deliberate in her speech and has a staginess about her that wouldn't cut it on any kind of scripted series. I don't believe she could overcome it, either.

Regarding the article in The Hill - maybe I'm spoiled by the intellect of fellow TWoP posters, but does Omarosa seem to have the writing skills of an 8-year-old? I feel like I'm reading my cousin's third grade book report here!

Well, she didn't actually write the article (there is a by-line at the very bottom) but it did sound rather disjointed, I agree.

When she first mentioned having a role on a sitcom I just assumed she meant a guest-starring role on some current sitcom, which I could almost (*almost*) see. But then she went on to talk about it so it did sound like she was saying they created a sitcom around her. And I also don't buy it. For one thing, we'd surely be hearing more about it in the media if it were true.

I'm just waiting for Omarosa to really turn up the pathological liar level to that of Jon Lovitz on SNL.

"I was a scheduler at the White House for Vice-President AL Gore ........ whom I've seen naked."

Ahhhhh, yes, just got to that part. I stand corrected! Now I'm just astounded by the idea of Omorosa starring in a sitcom. Blurgh.

Actually, networks are switching over to more of a year round cycle intead of the traditional Fall season. A pilot could be filming now for a possible summer series.


Now, I skimmed over this too fast and thought you wrote she'll have her titties and sycophants. Which as far as that goes is true too.

I think she means that she entered Howard for graduate school in 1997. She did her undergrad at Central State University, I believe.

The Omarosa Effect and how to stop it .. heh.

I believe you're right peaches, the timing of all of that makes sense to me. In terms of how quickly they would start filming a pilot, I cannot see it happening that fast. What production team would greenlight something so quickly?

yeahwhatever, that article was posted in this thread two days ago HERE. I'm glad someone finally caught up with it.

As DariaG notes (and as I mentioned in the Omarosa thread), pilot season is in full swing right now in L.A., which is one of the reasons why it strikes me as simply impossible that either A) a new sitcom was fabricated for Omarosa for which she would be filming the pilot "tomorrow" (!) or B) that even an existing sitcom would be able to be rewritten to incorporate a fairly well-defined role such as the one she describes. A walk-on cameo? Sure, she could technically be doing that "tomorrow" (or "today," if she actually spoke to the writer of the article yesterday). But I am positive she does not have her own show, and has not been given a real role (in her words, a "fun, educated woman who’s married to a really conservative dentist") in an existing show. The industry just simply doesn't work like that.

And there's no mention of this development from what I can tell in the trade dailies -- i.e, Variety and Hollywood Reporter -- and believe me, if one of the most talked-about reality TV participants ever was filming a pilot in L.A. right now, it would be front-page news in this town.

edited because I think I was sounding a little snippy, and I really didn't mean to!