I was walking my 89 year old mom, who has Alzheimer’s, around the house today to stretch her legs.
I jokingly asked her “Do you want to dance?”
She said, “Sure.”
Then she looked at me and added “but not with you.”
😂
We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, “I’ve decided I want to be cremated.” I said, “Alright, get your coat.”
BREAKING: The former chief marketer for NBC apologizes to the American people for giving us Donald Trump by helping to sell “The Apprentice” myth to the American people.
This is humiliating for MAGA…
“I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster,” writes John D. Miller in a piece entitled “We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for 'The Apprentice'” for U.S. News & World Report.
“For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal,” Miller explains. “I led the team that marketed ‘The Apprentice,’ the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.”
He goes on to state that his team “created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty” which was a “substantial exaggeration” that “created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.”
Miller points out that Trump had to declare bankruptcy four times before the show premiered and at least twice over the course of its 14 seasons.
“The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV,” writers Miller.
In a section that is certain to bruise Trump’s ego, Miller states that he was the “perfect choice” for the show because “more successful CEOs were too busy to get involved in reality TV and didn’t want to hire random game show winners onto their executive teams.”
Meanwhile, Trump “had no such concerns” and “plenty of time for filming.”
“I never imagined that the picture we painted of Trump as a successful businessman would help catapult him to the White House,” writes Miller, likening all of their advertising around the show to “fake news” because it was so “highly exaggerated.”
“I discovered in my interactions with him over the years that he is manipulative, yet extraordinarily easy to manipulate,” he goes on. “He has an unfillable compliment hole. No amount is too much. Flatter him and he is compliant. World leaders, including apparently Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, have discovered that too.”
Miller calls Trump “remarkably thin-skinned” and describes his adversarial relationship with the show. The future president would claim that the show was number one in the ratings, even when the numbers refuted that claim.
Not surprisingly, Trump was full of bad suggestions for the show. He wanted to make “a team of Black players compete against white players.” Miller tried to convince him against it by appealing to Trump’s greed and telling him that it would alienate sponsors.
“While we were successful in marketing ‘The Apprentice,’ we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that,” writers Miller. “And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public.”
“Now America is facing a critical choice. Should this elderly, would-be emperor with no clothes, who is well known for stretching and abandoning the truth, be president again?” he asks.
“I spent 50 years successfully promoting television magic, making mountains out of molehills every day,” he continues. “But I say now to my fellow Americans, without any promotional exaggeration: If you believe that Trump will be better for you or better for the country, that is an illusion, much like ‘The Apprentice’ was.”
“Even if you are a born-and-bred Republican, as I was, I strongly urge you to vote for Kamala Harris. The country will be better off and so will you,” concludes Miller.
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Let's talk about trump's LONG string of broken promises.
He promised to build a wall.
He only did 458 miles out of 2,000.
Much of it was replacement, not new.
He promised to make Mexico pay.
They didn't.
He promised to cut the deficit.
He added $8T to it.
He promised to unveil a new health care plan.
It didn't exist.
He promised a middle class tax cut.
He cut taxes for the rich.
The middle class is paying for it.
He said COVID would just go away like magic.
Hocus Pocus: it didn't.
He said he wouldn't play golf as President.
He made 250 visit to his own golf clubs.
It cost taxpayers $136 million.
He said he'd increase economic growth by 4%.
He didn't. President Biden did.
And trump is the first President to LOSE
millions of jobs since Herbert Hoover.
He promised an infrastructure plan.
He had none.
President Biden signed a massive one.
He promised to hire "the best people."
He fired half of them, and then said they
were the worst ever.
He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs.
He didn't: President Biden did.
He promised to drain the swamp.
He didn't: He WAS the swamp.
He promised to make America Great Again.
He didn't. If he did, it'd still be great.
But he's campaigning on the same thing.
This was only a partial list of broken promises.
trump is saying all over again that he'll do all of the things he promised to do but never did because he was too busy with petty beefs and breaking the law.
Enough with the broken promises.
President Biden and Democrats DELIVER.
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You know you all these indictments in Georgia have gotten me thinking about the scale of the criminality involved in trying to steal the election for Donald Trump.
We had lawyers writing papers on how to keep Trump in office, slates of fake electors in several states, people breaking into voting machines, congressman refusing to certify, thousands of phone calls, emails, texts and DMs pressuring officials to declare Trump the winner. Audits, investigations, fake lawsuits. Election officials threatened, voting machine companies vilified. Lies on the news every day and criminal actions at every level of government. It was a tidal wave of dishonesty and law breaking, a criminal enterprise with Donald Trump at the head.
Then there was January 6th. People crawling up the walls, smashing windows, bashing in doors and beating policeman. Five deaths. All in the people's house.
We're left picking up the pieces surrounded by politicians still pounding the drum of a stolen election. It's just staggering to me the scale of what happened, and it's amazing a system designed hundreds of years ago held.
Now there is accountability. There should be many more states pursuing indictments including my own, Arizona. No matter how long it takes. We need to hold everyone who played a part accountable.
I'm a 68 yr old man who is now in a wound care/physical therapy rehab facility after 2 surgeries. I like intelligent conversation and a good dirty joke.
Not looking for love or sex, but I sure could use a friend and some conversation.
@jasonllevin I wish I had the opportunity to tell him how much I respect and appreciate his public service and his sacrifice under so much hostility. Michelle and President Obama are American heroes and treasures.
Dear TV
The problem w the Trump Town Hall wasn't platforming...or a fragile siloed audience unable to be exposed to newsworthy opinions antithetical to their own...the problem was an event that was clearly negotiated to Trump's approval. An ode to access.
They are coming for him and his family hard, almost every single day. But he quietly works for us, whether credit is given or not. He is not perfect, but he is a good human being that really cares about all of us, and has accomplished much. I stand with @POTUS #2024