Donald Trump owes us an apology.
He never really intended to be our president, but he has kept up the charade.
Instead of understanding that leading this country is what he auditioned for over the past year and a half, he seems to believe he can just keep on doing all of the same things he's been doing. He seems to think he can still keep his fingers in his many business interests, he can still jet around in the gold-plated Trump plane instead of Air Force One (seeing as how Boeing is stiffing us, and all) and now he even thinks he can still own a stake in and preside over the TV show "Celebrity Apprentice."
Trump thinks we and America are just a part-time job.
He seems to think we're beneath him, less important than Trump resorts and TV shows.
Gosh, wasn't it just mid-November - just days after the election - that Trump told "60 Minutes" his business didn't matter - the country was what is important?
"We're going to save our country. I don't care about hotel occupancy. It's peanuts compared to what we're doing - health care, making people better. It's unfair what's happened to the people of our country and we're going to change it, it's as simple as that," he said.
But that was then - before he started turning down national security briefings and inflating how many jobs he saved at Carrier.
That was before he began holding cabinet post interviews (Celebrity cabinet auditions) and transition planning out of Trump Tower instead of in Washington, D.C. (Have you wondered yet how much more in security costs that means for us taxpayers?)
And, that was before the announcement that President-elect Trump will be an executive producer of "The Celebrity Apprentice" when it returns to TV in January.
Yes, really. The president of the United States will also be a producer of a TV reality show.
This is nauseating. So much for making America great again.
Kellyanne Conway, a top Trump adviser, told CNN Trump will do the show "in his spare time."
She likened it to President Barack Obama playing golf: "Were we so concerned about the hours and hours and hours spent on the golf course of the current president? I mean presidents have a right to do things in their spare time, in their leisure time."
MGM has declined to comment on what the president-elect will be paid for his participation in the new season, which will feature Arnold Schwarzenegger as the show's power-wielding businessman. But in the past, Trump held as much as a 50 percent stake in "The Apprentice," and received six-figure payments for each episode, as well as payments from the show's international editions.
Conflicts of interest aside - and there are plenty - Trump needs to get his priorities straight.
Being the president of the United States and the leader of the free world is not a part-time job.