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it's easy, just be Donald J Trump, and LIE.
Trump repeatedly claimed during the show’s run that “The Apprentice” was the “No. 1 show on TV,” or at least No. 1 on NBC. He did it in 2011 during a “Today” interview, and as recently as 2015, a few months before he announced his candidacy for president.
But Trump’s decade-plus-long claims that he had the top show on TV were mostly false. “The Apprentice” was indeed an unqualified hit early in its life, and it did rank No. 1 among adults 18-49 the week of its first-season finale in April 2004. It was also the top-rated new show of 2003-04 in the 18-49 demo.
But no iteration of “The Apprentice” ever finished first on all of TV for a full season, and only Season 1 even came close. That year it finished fifth in adults 18-49 (behind the final season of “Friends,” both weekly episodes of “American Idol” and “ER”) and seventh in total viewers.
Seasons 2 and 3 of the show, both of which aired in 2004-05, both finished in the Top 15 in adults 18-49 and viewers. After that, no cycle of either “The Apprentice” or “The Celebrity Apprentice” ranked higher than 17th in adults 18-49 for the season or higher than 38th in viewers.
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
then when you get busted for lying blame it on someone else.
it's in his genetics ... stripes on a zebra never change ... if he will lie about little ISSUES, he'll lie about BIGLY issues.
Trump repeatedly claimed during the show’s run that “The Apprentice” was the “No. 1 show on TV,” or at least No. 1 on NBC. He did it in 2011 during a “Today” interview, and as recently as 2015, a few months before he announced his candidacy for president.
But Trump’s decade-plus-long claims that he had the top show on TV were mostly false. “The Apprentice” was indeed an unqualified hit early in its life, and it did rank No. 1 among adults 18-49 the week of its first-season finale in April 2004. It was also the top-rated new show of 2003-04 in the 18-49 demo.
But no iteration of “The Apprentice” ever finished first on all of TV for a full season, and only Season 1 even came close. That year it finished fifth in adults 18-49 (behind the final season of “Friends,” both weekly episodes of “American Idol” and “ER”) and seventh in total viewers.
Seasons 2 and 3 of the show, both of which aired in 2004-05, both finished in the Top 15 in adults 18-49 and viewers. After that, no cycle of either “The Apprentice” or “The Celebrity Apprentice” ranked higher than 17th in adults 18-49 for the season or higher than 38th in viewers.
Trump claimed “The Celebrity Apprentice” was No. 1 to a roomful of reporters at the winter 2015 TV press tour, and was corrected pretty swiftly: A few reporters pointed out that the show wasn’t even tops on the night it aired. Trump shrugged it off, replying, “That’s what I was told.”
then when you get busted for lying blame it on someone else.
it's in his genetics ... stripes on a zebra never change ... if he will lie about little ISSUES, he'll lie about BIGLY issues.
