NBC made a big headline at its upfront presentation today regarding Donald Trump. Trump took the stage to deliver the news: “After getting so many calls from (top NBC executives), I’ve decided that we are going to continue onward with Celebrity Apprentice. I will not be running for president, as much as I’d like to, and I want to thank everybody very much,” he said. “This will be our 12th season, and I have to say, I love Celebrity Apprentice.” Over the past few months, Trump had been publicly flirting with the idea of running for president. At some point, he mulled announcing his final decision on the season finale of Celebrity Apprentice but then scrapped that idea. Just yesterday, NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt said on a conference call that NBC was working on plans to replace Trump on The Apprentice should he decide to run. After Trump’s statement, which drew big applause from the audience of ad buyers, Greenblatt quipped, “Every network wants to make news at its upfront. Try topping that!” UPDATE: At NBC’s lunch after the presentation, I heard that Trump informed NBC brass on Friday that he wanted to come to the upfront. Greenblatt told me that the network executives had a hunch that he might announce that he would stay on The Apprentice but didn’t know for sure until this morning.
Donald Trump Announces He Won't Run For President And Will Return To 'Apprentice'
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What a relief THAT show won’t be picked up!
Thank god, we won’t be subjected to that bad hair, bad grammar, empty suit and empty bank account. One could only have nightmares about what he would do to the White House….prolly turn it into a golf course….but now we won’t have to. Yay
So is he still going to have that taped announcement after “The Apprentice” next week… to promote the press conference… that will merely confirm the gobsmackingly obvious?
Dumb he ain’t! If the choice is making boatloads of money on TV vs running for an office he can’t win under any circumstances…well, let me repeat “dumb he ain’t”.
Good for us. I mean his own finances are a mess. Love the Apprentice though and he’s fun and smart to watch. But come on President?? He does think a lot of himself…not enough to have realized that all his bad money dealings would come out in the wash if he did run.
I was wondering when I could finally start sleeping again at night. Thanks Nikki.
Hilarious! He’s not running for president because NBC executives are calling him. Right…
the good news- he WON’T be POTUS
the bad news- he WILL still be on TV
And I was so looking forward to the public roasting of Donald Trump during his campaign bid. Trump would have been the ‘comic relief’ of the 2012 election cycle news and late night shows.
Donald, you have just left so many…with so much less…material with which to work.
Shame on you. You would have been the life of the ‘party’…no pun intended.
What a joke. If Trump felt he could have won or could have done a decent job he would have given up that crappy show, “C List Apprentice”. Once he learned he was replaceable suddnly he made his decision. The only thing that is worse than the thought of himbeing president is that some people would actually support him. I know the GOP field is weak but this is pathetic!
I think the idea that he would lose terrified him. So instead of running for President ran back to his safe haven. “Man In The Mirror”
It’s wonderful that the Donald thinks so much of his country he puts NBC and the “NBC executives” that have been calling him before his country. Although, thinking about it, his NOT running for president is probably the greatest service he can do his country. What a tool. Good luck selling your newly toxic brand Don.
Funny how when Kabletown announced they could continue Celebrity Apprentice without T-Rump, he suddenly changes his mind about running for prez. Denying him a regular network timeslot must REALLY bruise his massive ego, especially when he realized he could easily be replaced on his own show. (Maybe Ashton Kutcher could do that show as well.)
Also factoring into the equation were multiple polls showing how little Americans wanted T-Rump to run. (Except for maybe late-night talk-show hosts – that would have made their jobs so much easier for the next year).
So Donny, go back to your crappy little TV show and your gaudy developments. The rest of the country – and the world – will do just fine without you in the spotlight every day.
Trump has decided that playing a fake billionaire is easier than being a real President.
TO BAD, WE NEEDED A CLOWN IN THE RACE TO MAKE FUN OF. EVERYONE KNEW HE WAS’NT
RUNNING,HE IS NOTHING MORE THEN A BIG FAT FOOL . HE PROVES MONEY CAN’T BUY CLASS
No clown needed, we have a “community organizer”.
No “community organizer” needed, we have a former Senator and president of the Harvard Law Review.
That sound you just heard was every talk show host, comedian and “office funny guy” sighing in disappointment.
AKA – Also called the “Untitled Donald Trump Free Press for my sub par show on NBC” Project …
Was there ever anyone, Republican or Democrat, that believed that he would really run?
What a surprise. I’ll bet nobody saw THIS coming.
If he is a billionaire, then why is he the host of a tv show? Wouldn’t you own your tv network? This guys is a bluff! Cant stand him.
Best news ever, thank God!
You kidding me? He never intended on REALLY running. This was genius publicity on the part of the Trump. A win-win. Gotta hand it to him.
Absolutely destroying his already shaky reputation and fandom, and going down in the history books as the guy who tried to discredit President Obama as a U.S. Citizen. Yeah, genius PR move. Watch the ratings for Celebrity Apprentice wind up in the sh***er next season. Trump is toast.
Trump wasn’t the guy that tried to out Obama. He’s the guy who tried to TAKE CREDIT for it.
People forget that it was Hillary Clinton that got the conversation about whether he’s an actual citizen or not started and it was a news report years earlier that commented on him being an Kenyan-born Senator.
Whether he is or isn’t is irrelevant now. We just need someone else running the show. I’m not a huge fan, but I firmly believe we made a major mistake not voting Hillary in.
Course, we know what they say about hindsight. Can’t wait for 2012!
Trump is a disgusting human being. He never intended on running. He duped a few including NBC brass. Please make him go away.
beautifully put
What a total effing a-hole. All that shit he was saying taking this country backwards with every comment, making this country look so foolish in the eyes of the rest of the world, as pathetic as Palin made us look.
And to think many Americans actually believed in this guy is such a sad state of affairs. And now he says “because of calls from NBC executives I won’t run for President of the US”….. what a waste of time.
I truly feel sorry for anyone who believed that he would run – that this was anything more than a publicity stunt. And I know you people are out there…
You feel sorry for anyone who believed him? I sure don’t. I feel sorry for us, the shmucks who have to live with the moronic choices idiots like those who believed – and believed in – a scammer and liar like Trump.
If their stupidity only had an impact on them and their lives, yes, sure, I’d feel badly that they were raised and educated in such a manner as to be so utterly clueless, uninformed and so easily deceived. But if it’s not Trump leading them around like especially stupid sheep, it’s Palin, or Bachmann, or Pat Robertson, or Gingrich, or GWB, or whomever else happens to be their daddy-will-protect-me figure for the decade.
Remember, these are the morons who actually regard Cheney as an expert in foreign relations, and GWB as a military powerhouse and tactician. They actually talk about Obama being a secret Muslim, “half white” and about Liberals being socilaistt Nazis (in the process of the foolish name-calling, proving beyond doubt that they don’t know the first thing about whay that’s literally impossible).
No, I don’t feel sorry for them. I feel sorry for all the others who have to live with the aftermath of that crowd’s stupid choices in office holders and idols.
Well said.
What does Nazi stand for?? What side of the aisle most resembles socialist? be honest!
“I thought he was running as a joke.” — Seth Myers. BEST LINE EVER!