REPORT: Trump Mulling Relaunch Of “The Apprentice”

The Daily Beast reports:

As he begins his final weeks in office, amid a winter surge in coronavirus deaths, President Donald Trump has mentioned to confidants that he’s thinking about resurrecting The Apprentice or The Celebrity Apprentice reality TV show, two people with direct knowledge of the situation, and another person close to the president, tell The Daily Beast.

Among his inner orbit of family, political aides, and advisers, it is yet another sign that, despite the president’s public insistence that he won the 2020 election, he recognizes that he has lost and that his ongoing legal crusade to cancel Joe Biden’s victory will come up short.

Read the full article. Other reports have noted that Trump’s massive income from the The Apprentice basically kept his other enterprises afloat.

In the past two weeks, people familiar with the matter note, Trump has casually slipped into conversation lines such as, “How would you like to see The Apprentice come back?” and “Remember The Apprentice?” https://t.co/NMs73tC7sm

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 18, 2020