Reality TV, reality are worlds apart
For more than a decade, between 2004 and 2015, Donald Trump bullied and berated his eager contestants on The Apprentice, inevitably ending the conversation with his scowling, trademark catchphrase, “You’re fired!”
On The Apprentice, Trump carefully and meticulously cultivated his image as a demanding, decisive, confident, assertive authority figure. Viewers of the program adored and admired the strength of his realty television persona.
Realty and reality television, however, are quite different as Donald Trump recently demonstrated with the firing of James Comey, director of the FBI. Protocol, if nothing else, demanded a face-to-face meeting for a termination of this magnitude.
Donald Trump, however, chose to obscure the facts about the termination, claiming that it was based on the recommendation of the Justice Department.