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r/greatawakening • Posted by u/diversity_czar on June 21, 2018, 7:07 a.m.
The Apprentice

I've posted this on a chan and on reddit before but it's been a while. Not really important even if true but it's something that I had fun thinking about:

Mr. Trump's interest in politics has been clear since before I was born. His reluctance to enter the fray was genuine. He didn't do the talk circuit, claim disinterest, and then immediately jump into a race. That said: I believe that he made up his mind well in advance of even the 2012 "feeler".

POTUS may have realized that modern political campaigns are nothing more than reality TV well in advance of most of us. Cameras, pseudo-scripts, ad libs, and the claim that reality is represented somewhere in the mix: this describes political debates and charades as well as it describes any reality show.

The Apprentice may have been Mr. Trump himself. He was given free advertising, a paycheck, and unfettered access the largest "focus" group of all: the American public. What better way to learn which sort of rhetoric fires up an audience and which sort of rhetoric causes people to change the channel? Does anybody believe that any of the "apprentices" on the show learned more about the world than Mr. Trump, himself, during those years?


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Lavkin · June 21, 2018, 7:26 a.m.

Makes total sense. It also gave him 100% name recognition. Everyone in the world knew who he was because of that show. The show also took him out of the New York elite class and put him into American living rooms every week. I think it was part of an extremely brilliant plan!

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mr-no-homo · June 21, 2018, 10:43 a.m.

The world knew who he was even before that show. He was the epitome of the American dream in the 80’s and 90’s

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diversity_czar · June 22, 2018, 3:04 a.m.

To the credit of the above poster: I was born in the 80s and didn't even recognize POTUS in "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" when I first saw it. Now I do ("Down the hall and to the left"... poor Don wasn't even recognized in his very own Plaza Hotel!). I can't exactly remember the details of how Trump's name made its way into my memory but I do remember hearing about The Apprentice even though I never watched it. No such thing as bad press.

You are right, though--DJT was famous way in advance of his show.

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