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“The ultimate job for me would have been running MGM in the ’30s.”ĭuring the depths of The Apprentice’s grim L.A. Trump dreamed of becoming a Hollywood player. And yet, I’ve come to wonder if, late at night in the executive residence amid ice cream pints, Twitter rants, and blaring TVs, Trump rues what might have been in Southern California had he played it differently. Although beached, and finding himself in the same boat as his floundering former Apprentice candidates, Trump would do as he always seems to do-find his way out and up: a guy who turned a massive inheritance into a string of financial crises, with an indisputable record of infidelity and no formal political experience, somehow became a viable presidential candidate. Trump gamely made the most of the move, dining with Wolfgang Puck on the show, even taking off his socks and, grimacing, tottering in the Santa Monica sand in dress slacks and a blazer. With season 5’s plunge to 51st place, it was decided that the show would leave New York and head to Los Angeles. For a few seasons after its January 2004 debut, The Apprentice had remained a valuable franchise, even when season 4 sank to a number 38 average ranking, with about 11 million weekly viewers in the first half of the 2005-06 season.

To his dismay, no subsequent season of the show enjoyed ratings that were as high as the first. He was allowed to keep his wallet, but The Apprentice franchise was near death. Before he was president, the chief resident of Trump Tower’s penthouse cultivated his besuited image as the consummate New Yorker, even when he was at Mar-a-Lago eating prime rib and “beautiful” chocolate cake among the Sansabelt set.īut the truth is, Trump spent a lot of time in Los Angeles, much of it in a purgatory of his own making circa 20. You don’t generally think of Donald Trump when you think of L.A. “But all we ever needed was tequila and mahi-mahi, basically.” “When you want something, you have to tell the producers you want something from ‘Uncle Mark,’” said Jenn Hoffman, a cast member.

While Donald Trump stayed for months at the Beverly Hills Hotel conducting various alleged affairs, his fired candidates were detained without their wallets or cellphones in a beachside condo to guarantee they wouldn’t leak the show’s plot. During the ill-fated Los Angeles season of The Apprentice in 2006, the Ponderosa was an unremarkable corporate apartment complex in Marina del Rey. In a Thursday statement, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said Mulvaney's G-7 announcement was "among the most brazen examples yet of the president's corruption." His committee announced a probe in August when the president first floated the idea of hosting the upcoming G-7 at his resort.The Ponderosa” is what producers on Mark Burnett reality shows call the residence where eliminated contestants are exiled while taping of the competition continues. Trump is also the subject of multiple lawsuits and congressional investigations accusing him of either violating the emoluments clause or profiting off the presidency.

Trump has already come under scrutiny for how often he visits Trump-owned and Trump-branded properties as president, which leads to tax dollars being spent at his business. The White House insisted that would not be the case amid the widespread concern that Trump would be violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, which bars any cash or gifts from foreign government officials to the president that are not otherwise approved by Congress. The G-7 decision - which Trump had teased at the summit in Biarritz, France, over the summer - came under immediate criticism that Trump was seeking to personally profit off the presidency. "And it's not lost on me that if we made the decision on Thursday, we wouldn't have had the press conference on Thursday regarding everything else, but that's fine," Mulvaney told "Fox News Sunday."