{"id":64399,"date":"2024-12-22T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64399"},"modified":"2024-12-22T14:27:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T22:27:26","slug":"trump-picks-his-apprentice-producer-mark-burnett-for-diplomatic-post-to-buy-his-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64399","title":{"rendered":"Trump Picks His &#8216;Apprentice&#8217; Producer, Mark Burnett, for Diplomatic Post &#8211; To Buy His Silence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of Donald Trump is shaping up to be an epically inept roster of political toadies and personal suck-ups who lack any shred of relevant experience for the jobs they have been tasked to perform. The single criteria that Trump appears to require of his nominees is blind obedience to, and adoration of, Dear Leader Trump.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump Picks His 'Apprentice' Producer, Mark Burnett, for Diplomatic Post - To Buy His Silence?%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64399\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tv-set.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump TV Set\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42630\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the few weeks since the election, Trump has turned the White House into a garbage heap for blithering incompetents with a flurry of nominations that guarantee failure on an unprecedented level in critical governmental agencies, including the departments of State, Justice, Health, Homeland Security, Intelligence, and more. They are a motley crew of crackpots who bear no resemblance whatsoever to the citizenry they supposedly there to serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64165\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Nominees Are Largely Fox News Alum, Mar-a-Lago Patrons, and Billionaires<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday Trump posted on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64392\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, that he is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mark-burnett-the-apprentice-creator-trump-special-envoy-to-the-u-k\" target=\"_blank\">nominating Mark Burnett<\/a><\/strong> to be his Special Envoy to the United Kingdom. Note, that is not the same as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c20e79nlpe6o\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. ambassador to the U.K.<\/a><\/strong>, for which Trump has chosen billionaire donor Warren Stephens. The <em>&#8220;Special Envoy&#8221;<\/em> post is a brand new title made up by Trump for Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>Burnett joins a diplomatic team of losers from Trump&#8217;s past who he is rewarding for their loyalty, including failed senatorial candidate, Herschel Walker (Bahamas), his son-in-law&#8217;s felon father, Charles Kushner (France), and his son Don Jr&#8217;s ex-fianc\u00e9e, Kimberly Guilfoyle (Greece). His nominees not only portend serious harm for America&#8217;s international relations interests, they are an insult to our allies who will host the phony diplomats.<\/p>\n<p>However, Burnett may have some additional <em>&#8220;qualifications&#8221;<\/em> that made him just too compelling for Trump to pass up. Burnett was the producer of Trump&#8217;s reality TV game show, <em>&#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;<\/em> He may bear more responsibility for burdening the nation (and the world) with Trump than any other single person. That&#8217;s because it was Burnett who manufactured the myth that Trump is a successful businessman, when in fact, he has a long record of bankruptcies and other financial fiascoes.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, there are <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-racist-apprentice-tape-access-hollywood-rcna154722\" target=\"_blank\">reports of video outtakes from <em>&#8220;The Apprentice&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> wherein Trump is heard to be using racial epithets and manipulating the outcome of the game to prevent Black contestants from winning. These reports are coming from the show&#8217;s participants and insiders, not Trump critics.<\/p>\n<p>Trump surely wouldn&#8217;t want any of that to come out. And handing Burnett a plum spot in one of the world&#8217;s most desirable locales could be a way to compensate him for covering up Trump&#8217;s bigotry. Although there are others engaging in the conspiratorial cover up as well, including Jeff Bezos, whose company now owns the tapes from the show. Bezos, whose space and cloud computing companies rely on government funding, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c5ygvjpxn17o\" target=\"_blank\">dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago<\/a><\/strong> earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing suspicious about any of this, is there? And Trump never does anything wrong. So since he is such a huge advocate of transparency, he&#8217;ll probably release the Apprentice cast and crew from any non-disclosure agreements they were forced to sign. Right? 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The single criteria that Trump appears to require of his nominees is blind obedience to, and adoration of, Dear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,417],"tags":[1531,554,1307,1530,95,1143],"class_list":["post-64399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-racism","tag-apprentice","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-mark-burnett","tag-media","tag-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tv-set.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-gKH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30382,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=30382","url_meta":{"origin":64399,"position":0},"title":"SNL&#8217;s Michael Che On Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Phone Sex&#8221; Appeal To Racist Republicans","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/13\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Just as some portion of the mainstream media is beginning to report accurately on the overt racism of Donald Trump, Michael Che of Saturday Night Live comes up with an alternate theory that makes sense: \"At this point Trump is the political equivalent of a phone sex operator. 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