On a private post on Facebook, as first reported by The New York Post, Mr Greenblatt wrote: “The sad state of affairs thanks to a pompous businessman turned reality TV star (whose show consistently ran LAST in its time period, by the way) who thinks speaking his mind is refreshing”.
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After all, Trump used to be a welcome fixture at NBC before his derogatory comments about Mexicans got him kicked off the network previous year. Moore says that’s when Trump made a decision to hold a few campaign rallies to demonstrate his popularity in early polls to get a bigger offer from NBC.
The television show was axed last summer, and the new host will be actor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Representatives for Trump’s campaign did not immediately respond to EW’s request for comment. In June 2015, NBCUniversal said it was cutting its business ties with Trump because of his “derogatory statements” about immigrants.
Greenblatt and Trump’s history dates back to 2011 when the network executive joined NBC, and “Celebrity Apprentice” was already on the air – but ever since Trump entered the political sphere, his relationship with NBC fizzled.
“What’s going on demonstrates, if nothing else, the enormous amount of responsibility that goes with the job of putting out the version of someone that we do in a TV show”, Telegdy said in May at an industry event, calling “The Apprentice” a “master television production” that “created a phenomenon television personality”. “I don’t think there’s that much of a correlation of one to the other”.
But, then, he noted “Bedtime For Bonzo helped [Ronald] Reagan become a nationally prominent figure”, but that seemed to make the reporter’s point.
Following filmmaker Michael Moore’s open letter to Ivanka Trump to convince her father, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, to end his campaign last week, the Oscar victor on Tuesday wrote an op-ed for The Huffington Post, stating that Trump is self-sabotaging his campaign.
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