‘Apprentice’ participants, producer urge voters to fire Trump, hire Harris
Oct 29, 2024
Six former “The Apprentice” participants including a producer, the show’s former head of casting and season-four winner Randal Pinkett are urging voters not to elect Donald Trump as president next week.
In a letter published by Politico, that collection of contestants and staffers concede that the time they spent with the Trump included highs and lows that helped them understand why the Republican candidate might be a compelling figure to many people. But they say there’s also a dark side many people haven’t seen.
“The Donald Trump we spent time with certainly embodied charisma and salesmanship,” the letter reads. “But our extended up-close-and-personal experiences with Donald also revealed his serial history as a divisive, self-interested, and erratic leader with a fragile ego.”
The letter assures potential Trump voters the boss character they saw on NBC’s “The Apprentice” was a product of “world-class TV editing” and that the 45th president doesn’t have the makings of a real leader.
“We saw first-hand how he demanded one-way loyalty, the trail of his broken promises, his willingness to lie and take advantage of people, and how virulently he lashed out whenever he was triggered by even the slightest of criticisms,” the show’s alumni wrote.
Randal Pinkett (R), Tara Dowdell and Kwame Jackson, all former Apprentice contestants, speak at a news conference April 15, 2014 in New York. (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)
After stating Trump would be bad for the U.S. economy — and having spoken to “dozens of our fellow contestants” — those who signed the letter opposing Trump’s election efforts endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
The letter is signed by “The Apprentice” producer Bill Pruitt, casting manager Scott Salyers and show participants Kwame Jackson, Tara Dowdell, Surya Yalamanchili and Pinkett.