Reality TV, as Trump learned – DiePresse.com
How the US President has humiliated his Ukrainian counterpart Selenskij in front of running cameras, reminds strongly of his « Apprentice » show-and shows that more wisdom lies in the much smiled-at rituals of diplomacy than expected.
The most important, really exposed sentence came to the end. After Donald Trump on Friday evening in the White House of his Ukrainian counterpart Wolodymyr Selenskij in front of the eyes of the world public like a cheeky school boy, he turned and humiliated to the reporters present: « This will be great television. » Not the US President spoke here, but the former star of the reality show « The Apprentice »: for eleven years, every Thursday evening from nine to ten NBCthe manager Trump roared intimidated candidates who, according to the script, applied for a job in one of his companies. Until the final « you'Re burned » that has become proverbial. The television professional in the role of the « Tough Guy » already knew: the insolent and more rapid, the higher the ratings, the more « great » television.
