Rumors and speculations regarding Donald Trump’s time as a reality television “star” during the early 2ooos and into the 2010s have long been swirling before, during, and after his highly controversial presidency. However, save from a few bombshells from the infamous Noel Casler over the years, getting any cold, hard confirmation on any of those rumors has been nearly impossible, as every possible source has unsurprisingly been locked into silence with ironclad NDAs.
However, the expiration date on that NDA has finally come around for one of the show’s biggest inside sources, and, suffice it to say, he has wasted no time in spilling all of Donald Trump’s dirtiest little secrets.
Former Apprentice producer Bill Pruitt, who worked on the first two years of the show starting back in 2008, has penned a new piece for Slate that is absolutely packed full of multiple, damning bombshells on the scandal-plagued, multi-indicted ex-president — ranging from his treatment of women to his arrogant refusal to pay his bills to his casual racism and use of the N-word to Donald’s unsettling lack of mental capacity as far back as 2008.
While Pruitt’s shocking tell-all piece is packed full of more bombshells than we ever could have truly prepared for, Americans on social media have taken particular note of this revelation:
Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction were how to edit together sequences involving Trump. We needed him to sound sharp, dignified, and clear on what he was looking for and not as if he was yelling at people. You see him today: When he reads from a teleprompter, he comes off as loud and stoic. Go to one of his rallies and he’s the off-the-cuff rambler rousing his followers into a frenzy. While filming, he struggled to convey even the most basic items. But as he became more comfortable with filming, Trump made raucous comments he found funny or amusing—some of them misogynistic as well as racist. We cut those comments. Go to one of his rallies today and you can hear many of them.”
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Pruitt is saying that even nearly 20 years ago, Trump’s mental capacity was already in such a dire state that producers of his reality TV show were forced to cobble together clips of him speaking, in an effort to even make him watchable.
If you listen carefully, especially to that first episode, you will notice clearly altered dialogue from Trump in both the task delivery and the boardroom. Trump was overwhelmed with remembering the contestants’ names, the way they would ride the elevator back upstairs or down to the street, the mechanics of what he needed to convey. Bienstock instigated additional dialogue recording that came late in the edit phase. We set Trump up in the soundproof boardroom set and fed him lines he would read into a microphone with Bienstock on the phone, directing from L.A. And suddenly Trump knows the names of every one of the contestants and says them while the camera cuts to each of their faces. Wow, you think, how does he remember everyone’s name? While on location, he could barely put a sentence together regarding how a task would work. Listen now, and he speaks directly to what needs to happen while the camera conveniently cuts away to the contestants, who are listening and nodding. He sounds articulate and concise through some editing sleight of hand.”
Call To Activism took to their X (formerly known as Twitter) account with excerpts from Pruitt’s bombshell new piece, alongside a clip from The Apprentice that appears to showcase exactly what Pruitt is talking about here:
JUST IN: Donald Trump’s scenes on The Apprentice needed to be cobbled together with editing tricks due to Trump’s inability to form a coherent sentence, says producer Bill Pruitt.
This is DEVASTATING to Trump:
“Without a doubt, the hardest decisions we faced in postproduction… pic.twitter.com/uHe79VyYdb
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) May 30, 2024
It’s time for this country to face the fact that this man is not well. He is not well now, and he has not been well for quite some time.
You can read Pruitt’s damning new piece with Slate here.
Featured image via Political Tribune Gallery
