Ramin Setoodeh’s forthcoming book casts Trump not as a failure of our political system but as a Frankenstein monster manufactured by reality TV.
At Trump Tower in August 2021, journalist Ramin Setoodeh was listening to Donald Trump natter on about how much he helped the late comedian Joan Rivers.
But it didn’t matter. Trump never did get up and almost immediately forgot about “the whole thing with the Afghanistan.” Pointing to the TV screen, he told Setoodeh to play another old clip from “Celebrity Apprentice.”Welcome to the mad world of “Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass.
Drifting “in a web of half-truths and empty boasts,” the once and possibly future president of the United States remains fixated on his television success two decades ago. It’s a world of gilded glamour covered in dust. “Trump Tower,” Setoodeh says, “feels like Grey Gardens without the cats.”
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