Donald Trump in the media
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In 1989 and 1990 Donald Trump sponsored The Tour de Trump road bicycle race held along the East Coast of the United States and ended with a time trial at Trump's Atlantic City casino. The Tour DuPont replaced the Tour de Trump, from 1991 to 1996.
In 1990, Trump's Atlantic City casino was used for the game show Trump Card, produced by Fielder-Berlin.
In 2004, Trump became the headliner at The Learning Annex Real Estate Wealth Expo in New York. He was reportedly paid $1,000,000 for his one-hour seminar. Since then he has appeared at six more similar expos for The Learning Annex: New York (again), Chicago, Los Angeles (twice), and San Francisco. There were six more expos scheduled for 2006, and twenty in 2007. Trump got a 50% raise and is making $1.5 million per show.
A Muppet of Donald Trump also appears in an episode of the 36th season of Sesame Street, alongside grouch Muppet Donald Grump.
As of June 2006, Trump is planning a new reality show with R.J. Cutler based on the board game Monopoly[1]
In 2007, Trump received an honor for his contribution of The Apprentice to television by receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[2][3]
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[edit] The Apprentice
In 2004, Trump became the executive producer and host of the NBC reality show, The Apprentice, in which a group of competitors battled for a high-level management job in one of Trump's commercial enterprises. The other contestants were "fired," or eliminated, from the game. The winner of the program is "hired" by The Trump Organization with a 1-year "introductory" contract with a salary exceeding $250,000. At the end of each episode, Trump eliminated at least one (if not more) contestant(s) by telling them, "You're fired," which became a somewhat popular catch phrase. For the first year of the show Trump was paid a mere $50,000 per episode (roughly $700,000 for the first season), but following the show's initial success, he is now paid a reported $3,000,000 per episode ($48 million if the job interview lasted for 16 weeks), making him one of the highest paid TV personalities.
In 2007, Trump received an honor for his contribution of The Apprentice to television by receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[4]
[edit] Appearances as a character
[edit] Appearances playing himself
- Trump recently appeared on the World Wrestling Entertainment-produced "WWE RAW" where he was in a feud against WWE chairman Vince McMahon The feud was over circumstances of who's more wealthy, who the fans like more (Trump is seen as the fan favorite), and who has better hair. They each had a wrestler represent them in a Hair vs. Hair match at WrestleMania 23 on April 1, 2007 where the losing representative had his handler's head shaved bald by the other. McMahon chose current WWE Intercontinental Champion Umaga to represent him. Trump revealed his representative to be current ECW World Champion Bobby Lashley. On the February 26 edition of "RAW", it was announced that the WWE Board of Directors would be appointing a special guest referee for the what is called the "Battle of the Billionaires" match at WrestleMania, and they would announce who they chose the following week. On March 5, after teasing the audience with Mick Foley, Eric Bischoff and Shane McMahon as potential special guest referees, it was finally announced that the special guest referee would be Stone Cold Steve Austin, long-time rival of McMahon. Lashley defeated Umaga, McMahon's head was shaved, and Trump received a Stone Cold Stunner.
[edit] Appearances as a guest
[edit] Talk shows
Donald Trump has made twelve appearances on Live with Regis & Kelly over a three year period of 2004 to 2007. On at least two occasions, he has actually co-hosted the program. His appearances are most frequent, however, on The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. From 2005 to 2006, he appeared eight times.
- 11: Late Show with David Letterman (1997-2007)
- 10: Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1997-2007), Howard Stern (1997-2006, including Howard Stern on Demand)
- 6: Larry King Live (2004-2006)
- 5: The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2004-07), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2004-2005)
- 4: The Tony Danza Show (2004-05), Last Call with Carson Daly (2004-05)
- 3: The O'Reilly Factor (2004-05), The View (2004-05)
- 2: On-Air with Ryan Seacrest (2004), Hardball with Chris Matthews (2004-05)
- 1: Jimmy Kimmel Live (2007), Martha (2005), Dr. Phil (2005), Your World w/ Neil Cavuto (2005), The Oprah Winfrey Show (2004)
[edit] Public Views of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War
Donald Trump has gone on several interviews on the The Big Ides With Donny Deutsch and on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Trump has expressed very opposing views on the Bush Administration and its' performance on the Iraq War. Even though interviews were made at different times, Trump used many of the same points in them. He Claimed:
- George W. Bush is the worst president in the history of the United States.
- The Iraq War is a shame, a total disaster, and total catastrophe.
- The solution is to announce victory and bring all of the troops home to the United States.
- Donald Rumsfeld is a total disaster for his performance on the War.
- Condoleeza Rice is a nice woman, but never makes a deal when visiting foreign countries.
- Saddam Hussein shot and killed terrorists.
- The man, and it will not be a woman, who takes over Iraq after the United States leaves will make Saddam Hussein look like a nice guy and baby.
- There will be a civil war, which is already going on in Iraq, and will just worsen when the United States withdrawals its troops.
- The war was a total lie as there were never any weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq.
- After the September 11th attacks, it was the first time that world liked the United States and lent out to them, but the United States blew the opportunity.
- The World hates the United States. Wherever he makes deals outside of the United States, he feels others hate the Americans. There are two types of hatred towards the Americans. The people who pretend to like the Americans are single hate and then theres the double hate where they just want to shoot the Americans.
[edit] Parodies of Trump
[edit] In comic strips
For a time, Trump was parodied in Berkeley Breathed's long-running political cartoon strip, Bloom County. In this incarnation, he had been hit by an anchor. With his body damaged, his brain was placed inside the body of Bill the Cat. As a penniless cat, his relationship with Ivana became distant and he continually searched for new ways to make money — even redecorating Roach Motels. By the end of the series, he had bought the entire strip and fired all of the rest of the characters, replacing them with cartoon versions of Ivana and himself. However, in Breathed's next series, Outland, Bill had returned to his original state, with no mention of Trump. To commemorate his part in Bloom County, the last collected edition of strips (Happy Trails!) had the quote 'I never thought Berke Breathed had talent, so he was probably forced to quit.' — as said by Trump himself.
Donald Trump has been long parodied in the comic strip Doonesbury. These spoofs began in the 80s when Donald Trump started to become well known. Mr. Trump continues to appear in the comic strip from time to time when a big story about him breaks out.
