Donald Trump has made no promise that his financial insurance policies, together with seismic tariffs in opposition to America’s commerce allies, received’t cause a recession. However he has vowed to spend his second time period as president rewatching himself on TV.
Prime Video introduced Monday that seven seasons of Trump’s hit NBC reality-competition collection will quickly be accessible to stream on its platform. Every season of the present, which helped reform Trump’s public profile and paved the way in which for his first presidential marketing campaign, can be launched weekly, with season one premiering March 10. Subsequent seasons will roll out each following Monday by means of April 27.
“I stay up for watching this present myself—such nice recollections, and a lot enjoyable, however most significantly, it was a studying expertise for all of us!” Trump himself stated in an announcement hooked up to the announcement.
Questions loom about why Prime Video has chosen to stream The Apprentice now, greater than 20 years after its 2004 premiere. (It beforehand became available to stream on Tubi in 2019, however appears to have left that service by 2021.) Maybe the choice has one thing to do with the president’s relationship with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who attended Trump’s inauguration in January alongside different tech billionaires. That very same month, Prime Video licensed an upcoming documentary about first woman Melania Trump.
Then there’s Apprentice government producer Mark Burnett, who was appointed special envoy to the UK by Trump in December. A majority stake in Burnett’s manufacturing firm was acquired by MGM Studios, now owned by Amazon, in 2014, giving Bezos’s firm the rights to The Apprentice. “The Apprentice is without doubt one of the finest reveals that I ever produced,” Burnett stated in an announcement. “The charismatic onscreen presence of President Donald J. Trump made it a bona fide hit! Now, due to Prime Video, a complete new viewers will expertise a brand new season each Monday.”
Trump filmed The Apprentice and its subsequent spin-off, The Superstar Apprentice, till 2015, when NBC fired Trump after he made offensive feedback about Mexican immigrants throughout his first presidential marketing campaign announcement. “At NBC, respect and dignity for all persons are cornerstones of our values,” the corporate stated in an announcement on the time. Trump responded by doubling down in an announcement that stated he stood by “his statements on unlawful immigration.” He added: “NBC is weak, and like all people else making an attempt to be politically right.” Trump was changed as host for the ultimate season of The Superstar Apprentice by actor turned California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Apprentice’s long-lasting influence has troubled some who labored on the unique collection, together with former NBC chief advertising and marketing officer John Miller—who informed Self-importance Truthful final fall that with out the present, Trump by no means would have been in a position to run for president. “He didn’t have an actual firm. It was mainly a unfastened assortment of LLCs. They’d been bankrupt 4 instances and twice extra after we have been filming the present. The Apprentice helped him survive that,” Miller stated. “Individuals thought he could be a superb president as a result of I made him seem to be a reliable businessman.”
