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☆ New ‘Apprentice’ Book Paints Trump as Wounded, Forgetful and Hung Up on Hollywood
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Shawn Mccreesh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was May 2021, and Donald J. Trump was wounded. He told Mr. Trump he wanted to write a book, not about the unpleasantness of the previous four years, but about that prelapsarian period before Mr. Trump entered politics. Mr. Trump was sold. “He was at his lowest then,” Mr. Setoodeh, 42, said over lunch in Manhattan’s West Village on Friday. “You’ll sell 10,000 books at one rally,” he told Mr. Setoodeh.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, he’d, Ramin Setoodeh, “, ”, Setoodeh, ” Mr, ’, Mr Organizations: Capitol, Trump, Mr, NBC Locations: Washington, Manhattan’s

☆ Late Night Trolls Trump After Report of ‘Severe Memory Issues’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Trish Bendix | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now. ‘50 First Debates’Ramin Setoodeh, the author of “Apprentice in Wonderland,” a new book about Donald Trump, said that the former president had “severe memory issues” and forgot who Setoodeh was in a follow-up interview. “I’m starting to think Trump writes his name on buildings just so he can remember where he lives,” Jimmy Fallon joked.

Persons: ’ Ramin Setoodeh, Donald Trump, Setoodeh, “ I’m, Trump, ” Jimmy Fallon Organizations: Netflix

☆ Trump Isn’t Choosing a V.P. He’s Casting a Reality Show. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Ramin Setoodeh | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The public jockeying by various candidates to become Donald Trump’s running mate has taken on the air of a circus. Vance of Ohio; Senator Rick Scott of Florida; Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama; the businessman and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy; and others. Mr. Trump’s search is playing out more like an open cattle call audition. But Mr. Trump is always governing for the cameras — his favorite constituency. Mr. Trump was America’s first reality-TV president, and now he’s reviving the hits: He’s turned the veepstakes into a reboot of “The Apprentice.”

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☆ Millions of Americans Watched ‘The Apprentice.’ Now We Are Living It.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Jennifer Szalai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

APPRENTICE IN WONDERLAND: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, by Ramin SetoodehIn 2004, when the entertainment journalist Ramin Setoodeh was 22, Newsweek assigned him to cover a new reality show starring Donald Trump. “The Apprentice” was “a seminal moment in the history of popular culture” precisely because its star became president. Trump’s stint in reality TV has been squeezed many times over for significance. He interviewed Trump six times between May 2021 and November 2023, and talked to numerous people who worked for or appeared on the show. But access — especially when it comes to a 20-year-old reality show built around voluble people who crave attention — can yield only so much.

Persons: Donald Trump, Mark Burnett, Ramin Setoodeh, ”, Setoodeh, —, Trump, What’s Organizations: Newsweek, NBC, Variety, Trump

☆ A new book about 'The Apprentice' tells us what Trump thinks about Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Taylor Swift endorsed Joe Biden in 2020, but Donald Trump is still a Swift fan. "I think she's very beautiful, actually, unusually beautiful!" The former president fawned over Taylor Swift in an interview with Variety's Ramin Setoodeh in November. The remarks are set to be published in Setoodeh's forthcoming book about Trump's hit reality television series "The Apprentice." "I think she's beautiful, very beautiful!

Persons: Taylor Swift, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, —, fawned, Variety's Ramin Setoodeh, Setoodeh's, Swift Organizations: Service

☆ Variety faces calls for a retraction as its head-turning story about CNN drama begins to fall apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Variety has a mess on its hands. Former CNN chief Jeff Zucker, The Atlantic journalist Tim Alberta, and Puck Editor-In-Chief Jon Kelly have all called for the outlet to publicly correct the record. But, thus far, Variety has resisted taking any such action, outside quietly removing the widely panned Tatiana Siegel-written feature from its online homepage. The outlet’s deafening silence comes as the piece begins to fall apart in public. (It goes without saying that Zucker’s camp denied to Siegel that this ever happened, but she printed it anyway.)

Persons: Jeff Zucker, Tim Alberta, Puck, Jon Kelly, Tatiana Siegel, Chris Licht, ”, Byers, Zucker, Siegel, David Zaslav, ” Byers, Siegel weaved, imploring, Natalie Korach, Zucker’s, Ramin Setoodeh, Cynthia Littleton, Korach, Kelly, Puck’s, “, Jeffrey Goldberg, …, ” Goldberg Organizations: CNN, Variety, The Atlantic, Warner Bros, Penske Media Corporation, PMC, The Locations: . Alberta, ” Alberta, Miami, cabanas, ”, Russian, Littleton

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