Another day, another opportunity to be called “a loser” by Donald Trump. Today’s target: “Modern Family” writer and executive producer Danny Zuker, who pointed out via Twitter that Trump’s two-hour “Celebrity Apprentice” episode last night was not quite as successful as Trump says it was:[embedtweet id="328917254009913345"]NYMag’s Joe Adalian pointed out that at 10 PM, the show technically was No. 1 — but that represents only a chunk of the two-hour episode:[embedtweet id="328918723538870273"]Zuker, who had to have known he was trolling Trump, then became ensnared in a Twitter battle with the human tramp stamp:[embedtweet id="328693238707933184"]Continue Reading… … Read More
Scottish government ignores Donald Trump’s threats and approves windfarm
Scottish ministers have given the go-ahead to an experimental offshore windfarm site near Aberdeen after ignoring Donald Trump’s angry threats of legal action to block the project. Trump has repeatedly attacked the European offshore wind deployment centre (EOWDC) proposal, alleging the…
Trump, rejoice! “Celebrity Apprentice” ratings slightly up
After Donald Trump’s “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice” got off to a weaker-than-usual start this season, we speculated that his political advocacy might have damaged the series (on which he doesn’t appear, much, but for the very beginning and the end of each two-hour episode).Instead, after Trump’s speech at CPAC at the end of last week, in which the real-estate magnate took Mitt Romney to task for not talking enough about his success, “Celebrity Apprentice” improved from the previous week both overall and in the prized 18-49 demographic. Indeed, the series won the 10p.m. hour among that demographic by the largest margin of the season against “The Mentalist.”With just about everything else at NBC flatlining, Donald Trump — and competitors including Dennis Rodman and Gary Busey — shall stay employed for weeks to come.Continue Reading… … Read More
The 10 worst people on Forbes’ 2013 billionaire list
It will hardly come as a surprise that the rich got richer in 2013. Didn’t happen to you, did it? The combined wealth of the world’s billionaires hit an all-time high of 5.4 trillion, up from 4.6 trillion in 2012.The Forbes list of billionaires is brimming over with oligarchs, monopolists, thugs, miscreants, and hustlers. Not to mention right-wingers, narcissists, and parasitic predators. The only thing missing is the king of Mexian drug lords, Joaquin”El Chapo” Guzman, whose assets were evidently too hard to calculate this year.Putting together a list of the worst individuals in this group is a daunting task: How to choose, for example, between telecom monopolists? The richest person in the world, Mexican mogul Carlos Slim Helu, is certainly no friend of humanity, but Silvio Berlusconi, with his special brand of Technicolor depravity, managed to edge him out. There are hundreds of garden-variety jerks to choose from, along with several dozen egregious SOBs like GoDaddy’s Bob Parsons who deserve dishonorable mention. And there should be a whole separate list of Russian oligarchs. Alas, one runs out of space and time.While not comprehensive, here, in no particular order, are some of the biggest creeps on the 2013 roster.Continue Reading… … Read More
Donald Trump — but not Chris Christie — to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference
Donald Trump and Chris Christie are both outsized personalities, but only one of them is apparently big enough to speak at the CPAC conservative gathering next week – and it is not the New Jersey governor. Just days after creating headlines by not inviting Christie to one of the biggest events on…
Donald Trump talks to Salon about “Apprentice” ratings, his 2012 Presidential flirtation
Donald Trump’s “All-Star Celebrity Apprentice,” the spring reality show uniting past contestants like Dennis Rodman, Gary Busey, and La Toya Jackson, won the 10 p.m. hour last night among adults aged 18-49 — but with a diminished viewership of 5.1 million people overall during its two hours.”We’re very happy with the ten o’clock hour,” Trump told Salon. “And after four episodes, it goes to ten o’clock. So it’s really the ten o’clock hour.”"We beat everybody. We beat every other network,” Trump said. “That’s our hour. We serve as our own lead-in.” (Last night on NBC, the first hour of “Apprentice” followed the newsmagazine “Dateline.”)Trump refused to brook questioning as to whether NBC — which has collapsed in the ratings so far in 2013, slipping to fifth place after Univision in the February sweeps — might not be the ideal home for a TV show: “I’m very happy with NBC; they’ve been terrific. We’ve had a great success with ‘The Apprentice.’ We have a great success with our hour. They’ve made me the lead-in for the 10 o’clock hour.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Donald Trump threatens creator of ‘Dump Trump’ campaign with $25 million lawsuit
Donald Trump is threatening an online internet campaigner with a $25m lawsuit over a campaign to encourage Macy’s to drop Trump’s products from its shelves and his face from its advertising. Angelo Carusone, who set up the ‘Dump Trump’ campaign last year, received a letter…
