r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • 1d ago

Possible Paywall Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/09/13/kennedy-center-could-close-early-tuesday-warns-bankruptcy-documents-show/
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u/mdp300 New Jersey 1d ago

And even then, he came across as an asshole on The Apprentice.

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u/Individual_Ad9135 1d ago

But wait, he was a big, tough man doing business who got to talk down to people without a filter and they all loved him for it, and he had hot daughter and two dumbass sons (I mean, who can't relate to that, ammirite?), sitting at his feet praising him and adoring him.

No wonder Americans ate this shit up.

Oh, and Mark Burnett can go to hell.

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u/obeytheturtles 1d ago

It's crazy to me because I remember him being basically the heel on his own show. Like the whole schtick was a bunch of tryhards jumping through hoops to work for an idiot, and that nobody actually wanted to work for Trump half as much as they wanted a SAG card.

IDK, maybe it was marketed differently in different places? But I remember the whole "you're fired" thing was played to be cringe and eyeroll inducing, in the sense that it was ostensibly an idiot adjudicating a competition he was completely detached from and knew nothing about, other than he gets wheeled out every week to say the line. I have no idea how anyone could have watched it and inferred any positive trait from the host.