Category — Donald Trump

Donald Trump this year ruled out standing as a Republican candidate for the US Presidency, however rumours are again going into overdrive that The Apprentice host may run.

The Daily Telegraph reports he has changed his political status from Republican to Independent, which means he could run for President with no party affiliation. Ross Perot was the last person to do this got a respectable 20 per cent of the vote, but it is highly unlikely that he will win.

However he won’t be able to start campaigning until May as he is filming the show up unti then.

When Donald Trump best known for his hair, and being host to the US version of Celebrity Apprentice announced he was not going to put his hat in the ring for the Republican Presidential nomination I was disappointed.

However I always thought Reality Ravings would be able to report on the election because dabbler in reality TV Sarah Palin might run. She has crushed these dreams this week saying she is not seeking nomination. So it looks like reporting on the US Presidential’s is not going to occur.

However another Republican President nomination has had a brush with reality TV, but this time it was Top Chef production company Magic Elves sued has the Texas attorney general to prevent the release of information in documents from the Governor Rick Perry’s office related to the $400,000 Texas paid for product placement in the new season.

Reality Blurred reports:
The lawsuit, filed Monday, says that, as part of its brand integration with Texas, “Magical Elves provided confiential and propreitary information regardng Top Chef, as well as creative concepts and production ideas for Top Chef: Texas,” and the documents they want to protect include “proposals, correspondence, and related documents.”

Why is it always the Republicans involved in reality TV, and not the Democrats?

Channel Nine really look like they are getting serious with their reality TV programs in 2012. They have The Voice and also Celebrity Apprentice in pre-production.

Casting will be key for Celebrity Apprentice. The good news is Mark Bouris will be the host, and there are strong rumours Geoffrey Edelsten may be one of the competitors on the show. I hope so that would be gold.

Also for fans of Donald Trump aka The Donald he will be in Australia next month to be the headline speaker at the National Achievers Congress, September 19-21 in Sydney and September 20-22 in Melbourne. Go to www.nationalachieverscongress.com.au if you are interested in attending.

In disappointing news for this blog, is Donald Trump will not be running for President of the USA.

He gives his reason as he is not ready to leave the private sector. The Daily Mail reports he made the announcement at the NBC Upfronts fall 2011 launch at a hotel in  New York.

This continues to fuel the rumour the Trump for President campaign was just one big publicity stunt.

I was hoping for a Trump/Sarah Palin ticket, so the best I can hope for now is Palin to be somewhere throughout the campaign.

However I suspect Sarah Palin will be seen as far too lightweight, which of course she is.

The article states:
One reason Trump’s audience is abandoning him may be that, according to demographic research of primetime television viewers provided exclusively to The Atlantic by National Media Inc., a firm that places political ads on television, the audience for “Celebrity Apprentice” is among the most liberal in primetime television (see graphic above). Rather than add viewers, Trump foolishly appears to be driving them away.

“I was surprised to find that the ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ was so liberal, because the audience for [another reality show] ‘Survivor’ is fairly Republican,” said Will Feltus, the senior vice president for research at National Media, Inc. “It’s a weird show because it’s not a regular TV series. But based on MRI ratings, it is clearly a Democratic audience.”

Current Celebrity Apprentice contest Gary Busey has managed to bring Donald Trumps run for President to a screeching halt. He came out and endorsed him.

Now anyone who has watch Gary on Celebrity Apprentice, and Celebrity Rehab will know the man is bats**t crazy.

By the way if you are not watching Celebrity Apprentice you should be. It is a cracker season and showing on Fox 8 Wednesday nights at 8.30pm.

Not that the political commentators were taking Trump that seriously, they saw it as him self-promoting, but now after the Busey ramble (see below) Trump’s dream must be in tatters.

The primaries for the Republican presidential candidate is shaping up to be a battle of the reality TV stars, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.

Donald who has starred in numerous series of The Apprentice and Celebrity Apprentice according to the SMH has said he will definitely be putting his hat in the ring.

The other high profile Republican potential candidate is Sarah Palin who had her reality show set in her home state of Alaska cancelled. Sarah Palin’s profile was continuing to rise with the Tea Party, however the shootings in Arizona this week will hopefully tarnish her, as she was behind a website which has guns marked on certain states on a website. I mean seriously what sane person does that?

Maybe Donald a more liberal New Yorker is trying to wrestle the Republican’s back from the far right . If you think that a reality star cannot become President, remember Ronald Reagan a B-grade actor made it.

I can barely speak with excitement with news that Donald Trump is considering a tilt for President of the USA in 2012.

He says he doesn’t like the way the country is currently being run by Barack Obama. He said he would stand as a Republican.

Hopefully a camera crew will following his campaign if he decides to run.

Imagine the entertainment value in a pre-selection fight with other Republican hopeful Sarah Palin.  If The Donald did manage to get into the White House, would he appoint Ivanka and Donald Jr to his Cabinet? Would Bill Rasic be his Chief of Staff?  These are questions that need to be answered.

I wonder who will write his policy, or if he will have any. This could be sensational if he does decide to take a tilt, or this could all be about promoting the new series of The Apprentice which has “low” ratings of 3.87 million.

Source: News.com.au

Well as I have said before I love it when politics and reality TV mix.

Donald Trump today called on George Dubya Bush to be impeached for leading the US into Iraq on lies on the bases there were meant to be weapons of mass destruction there. However as we all know this won’t happen.

It is ironic the former president Bill Clinton was impeached for receiving fellatio, with the only people he hurt was his family. Whereas you can put a country into anarchy, spend billions of dollars and have thousands of body bags and that is ok.

Only in America. Don’t even get me started on Sarah Palin.

The Donald article is here.