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...assistant Carolyn Kepcher was disgusted by the women’s behavior. In an interview with the New York Times a few weeks ago, she noted that the female contestants “lost sight of the fact that this was a job interview. If Donald Trump were a woman, would they be wearing those kinds of clothes? These are eight very intelligent women with heads on their shoulders. Their sexuality only got them so far.” And she was right...
...only has Mr. Trump done little to merit his wealth, or the reputation that goes along with it, but he’s done little good with the money that he does have. Wealth should, if anything, be a means towards greater refinement and culture and a higher sense of social and moral responsibility. Gold plated toilets and a jet with your name on it do not qualify as such...
...American public has undoubtedly fallen for this myth. His books The Art of the Deal and How To Get Rich fly off the shelves. People watch the show religiously thinking that the mere flickering presence of Donald Trump in their living rooms will endow them with business acumen. Even the contestants on the show tremble at his awe-inspiring presence...
However, if The Donald is exceptional at anything, it is his ability to unscrupulously self-promote himself. The truth of the matter is that Trump is not a brilliant self-made individual but someone who was born into money. As the saying goes on how to become wealthy: “First I took a dime and worked hard to turn it into a quarter, then I took that quarter and worked hard to turn it into three quarters and then I inherited ten million dollars from my aunt.” The real trick to How to Get Rich...
...Trump did have some heartfelt sense of social justice, he would have extended the reach of this show beyond the petty confines of hard-nosed capitalism. Rather then seeing who can sell the most tricycles, he could have sent the apprentices to work on an enterprise zone in a poor neighborhood or have them solve housing problems for homeless families. Instead, the show has devolved into an entertaining mess of backstabbing and catfights between attractive women...