I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster.
For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal. I led the team that marketed “The Apprentice,” the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.
To sell the show, we created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty. That was the conceit of the show. At the very least, it was a substantial exaggeration; at worst, it created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.
In fact, Trump declared business bankruptcy four times before the show went into production, and at least twice more during his 14 seasons hosting. The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV.
Trump may have been the perfect choice to be the boss of this show, because more successful CEOs were too busy to get involved in reality TV and didn’t […]
Now you’re coming forward???? You waited all this time and the race is neck and neck? You should be ashamed of yourself for not speaking out. You created a lie and he’s running on that lie!!!! You need to get on every TV show you can and tell Americans the truth! His cult will not believe you because their minds are lost, but the rest of the populace can listen and learn and realize that he’s totally a fake—-in everything except his cruelty, his uncontrollable lying, his ignorance about economics, foreign policy, and history. You need to do this right away and if it stops a million people for voting for him and he loses because of that, this country will thank you forever! You need to speak up and immediately!!!!! Terri Quint