NBC Execs Don’t Believe Trump Is Running For President: ‘This Is Donald Being Donald’

by Alex Alvarez | 10:45 am, April 18th, 2011

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By now, we’re all exceedingly familiar with how TV star, businessman, and potential GOP (…or Independent) candidate Donald Trump feels about the “birther” movement, Iraq, and his relationship with black Americans, but, until now, we’ve yet to be given an answer to one of the most important questions stemming from Trump’s would-be campaign: What’s going to happen to The Apprentice if he decides to run? And what do executives at NBC feel about his possible run?

According to The New York Times, NBC’s need for a hit show like The Apprentice is so great that “it would be a virtual certainty to be renewed were it not for the questions raised by the campaign possibility.” The issue at hand here, besides the time Trump will have to take away from filming the celebrity-studded reality series, is NBC’s concern that other candidates will request equal screen time from the network.

Another issue that could potentially throw a wrench into the works at NBC is how / whether Trump’s success at the network will have any impact in how its other shows, such as Today, will continue to feature, report on and interview Trump. So far, Today‘s executive producer, Jim Bell, believes it’s “silly” to suggest that Trump’s show will affect the morning show’s coverage of him or his campaign.

But back to The Apprentice. As it stands, the show has several options with which it can go: Either postpone the airing of a new season until after the primaries / general election; hire a different celebrity host to oversee the shenanigans of, say, Gary Busey and Nene Leakes; or place Trump’s children – some of whom have already formed a big part of the show – at its helm.

…Or reimagine the show as a American’s Next Top Model (or Bad Girls Club)-style death match to the finish, with all the 2012 candidates coexisting in a South Beach penthouse, broadcasting their campaign speeches from a confessional in between naked Twister and rousing beer pong competitions.

It should be noted, however, that The Powers That Be at NBC seem a touch cynical regarding Trump’s chances of running in earnest. One executive who would have a hand in the network’s decision for how to deal with the show simply shared that that “this is Donald being Donald,” before adding that “any decision is still weeks away.”

h/t New York Times

2012, Donald Trump, NBC, The Apprentice

Barack Must Go

Big hairy deal what NBC thinks.

One could say this is just ‘ NBC being the quid pro quo civilian propaganda dissemination wing of the Obama regime ‘.
Jackie_Treehorn

NBC Execs Don’t Believe Trump Is Running For President: ‘This Is Donald Attention Whoring’

Fixed….
The_Reasonable_Lib

Well they’re obviously angry liberals who don’t know that Trump is looking out for the country.
Nationman

Barack Must Go said:
Big hairy deal what NBC thinks. One could say this is just ‘ NBC being the quid pro quo civilian propaganda dissemination wing of the Obama regime ‘.

You’re absolutely right, everyone is a liberal and out to get you, don’t look under your bed, George Soros is there!
Barack Must Go

Nationman said:
You’re absolutely right, everyone is a liberal and out to get you, don’t look under your bed, George Soros is there!

They’re not out to get me silly.
ProObamaAgenda

Barack Must Go said:
Big hairy deal what NBC thinks.

One could say this is just ‘ NBC being the quid pro quo civilian propaganda dissemination wing of the Obama regime ‘.

you dumb mofo…..trump works for NBC……only a dipshit like you would think a network that features donald ‘i have a good relationship with the blacks’ trump, joe scarbrough, pat buccannon and andrea mitchell is a propaganda wing of the dem party….youre just dumb to deal with….hope you were watching michele obama just smack down lizzy hasselbeck on the view…lizzy asked her what hannity told her to ask and Michele dropped the hammer on her wingnut ass….it was so freakin funny
catfishjuggling

Of course he isn’t really running. I, for one, am excited to hear the breathless coverage in four years when he pretends to be mulling a run against President Romney. This will be around the premier of his newest vehicle “The Tiniest Apprentice,” wherein 12 little people compete to be Mr. Trump’s elfin right hand.
WCinWI

I have said from the beginning that every media outlet is getting Punked. :)
Barack Must Go

ProObamaAgenda said:
you dumb mofo…..trump works for NBC……only a dipshit like you would think a network that features donald ‘i have a good relationship with the blacks’ trump, joe scarbrough, pat buccannon and andrea mitchell is a propaganda wing of the dem party….youre just dumb to deal with….hope you were watching michele obama just smack down lizzy hasselbeck on the view…lizzy asked her what hannity told her to ask and Michele dropped the hammer on her wingnut ass….it was so freakin funny

I don’t watch the view, but I’m sure the ladies of MEDIAite do, so I’ll just have to wait for the left wing slant on what really happened to hit the threads.
greg454

Trump works for NBC? Wrong, NBC pays Trump for the privilege of having him host The Apprentice. A man like Trump is his own boss, if he was just an employee NBC would have fired him for speaking against Obama.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/
KirbbDogg2000

or going on fox.
notsofast

Maybe- but in the meantime, Trump and the country are having a great time watching him bash the hell out of the pathetic thing called Obama.
notsofast

Lou Sarah said:
Lou Sarah says:
April 18, 2011 at 2:33 pm Lou Sarah(Quote)

Son, you race-card was played out a long, long time ago!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 ellie

ProObamaAgenda said:
you dumb mofo…..trump works for NBC……only a dipshit like you would think a network that features donald ‘i have a good relationship with the blacks’ trump, joe scarbrough, pat buccannon and andrea mitchell is a propaganda wing of the dem party….youre just dumb to deal with….hope you were watching michele obama just smack down lizzy hasselbeck on the view…lizzy asked her what hannity told her to ask and Michele dropped the hammer on her wingnut ass….it was so freakin funny

Wow I’d like to see that. I’m sure HuffPo will have it up today.
notsofast

ProObamaAgenda said:
joe scarbrough, pat buccannon and andrea mitchell is a propaganda wing of the dem party

Son, those are featured people on the Obama network called MSNBC!
notsofast

ProObamaAgenda said:
.hope you were watching michele obama just smack down lizzy hasselbeck on the view…lizzy asked her what hannity told her to ask and Michele dropped the hammer on her wingnut ass….it was so freakin funny

LOL

Son, I watched it and that never happened.

You libs never miss an opportunity to lie.
Yoda002

NBC, don’t let the secret out now, I was having fun hearing the giant sucking sound of the Teabaggers leaving the half term cheerleader for the Billionaire Birther.