Fans of President Trump’s former reality show “The Apprentice,” which has been available on Amazon Prime since last month, have focused on an episode where Senator Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is now one of Trump’s biggest critics, gushed about a fellow New Yorker’s business acumen.
As was customary for each episode of “The Apprentice” in 2006, the winner of the task in Season 5, Episode 8 flew to Washington, DC, to have breakfast with Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). While praising Trump and trying to find similarities between the two families, Schumer told the candidates that he knew Trump “was going to go places” even when he was a young man.
While having breakfast with the finalists at the illustrious Hay-Adams hotel in Washington, D.C., Schumer reflected on her own birthplace and shared it with the Trump family. “His father, and my grandfather, were builders together in Brooklyn.”
As one competitor responded, “Wow!” the acclaim grew. Someone another inquired, “Really?”
“Yeah!” To the room, Schumer replied.
After that, the camera shifted to Schumer praising Trump for his financial acumen.
“Even when [Trump] was much younger, you knew he was going to go places,” Schumer added, before a voice-over from one of the candidates present at the breakfast underlined that “Sen. Schumer and Mr. Trump are good friends.”
In 2016, before Trump’s first term began, the Democratic senator from New York stated to Politico, “[Trump] was not my friend.” This defies his 2006 performance on “The Apprentice,” which suggests that he had a favorable attitude toward the president. Schumer, on the other hand, called his connection to Trump a “casual acquaintance.”
Last month, Schumer characterized President Trump as “a lawless, angry man” in an interview. “The fact that The Apprentice President Donald ‘You’re Fired’ Trump is refusing to hold people accountable just shows how weak he is,” Schumer continued in a social media post earlier this month.
Remarking on the unearthed film of Schumer’s moment on “The Apprentice,” Michigan Senate minority leader Aric Nesbitt, a Republican from Michigan, made the comment “How things change…” in light of Schumer’s intense hostility for Trump now.
Contrary to popular belief, Democrats are also enjoying Schumer’s demise.
“As Schumer sells out our Constitution and democracy, you just gotta watch this clip of him sucking up to Trump on an episode of the Apprentice,” said Aaron Regunberg, a former Democratic congressman from Rhode Island. “What a world class slug of a man.”
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC questioned Trump just before the start of his first term if he would get along with Democratic leaders in Congress like Chuck Schumer. During the encounter, Trump made a favorable impression when he stated his intention to “be able to get along well with Chuck Schumer.”
“Working with Schumer was always a breeze for me. Trump claimed at the time that he had a close relationship with Schumer.
While the two political titans continue to bicker over the week’s top political topic, Trump’s vitriol toward Schumer has grown more disparaging of the senator with time.
In light of the increasing antisemitism, especially on university campuses, following the tragic attacks on innocent Israelis by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Trump recently attacked Schumer for what he claimed was her lack of support for the Jewish community. A Jew, Schumer hails from Philadelphia.
At least in Trump’s view, Schumer is a Palestinian, he told reporters last month from the Oval Office. “He’s converted to Palestinianism. He was Jewish once. He has lost his Jewish identity.
This month, Trump repeated remarks he made about Schumer during his last presidential campaign, in which he called Schumer a “proud member of Hamas.”
Some prominent public individuals, like Schumer, have supported the now-president before turning against him politically in subsequent years. During an interview with Oprah Winfrey in 1988, the famous talk show host was astounded by the “fascination” that Americans had with Donald Trump, going so far as to call him a “folk hero” due to his immense popularity.
According to media sources, renowned music producer Russell Simmons, who co-founded Def Jam Records, had similar kind things to say about Trump before he became a politician. Simmons reportedly called Trump “very nice” and commented on how helpful Trump has been to his family. On the other hand, after the tragic politically motivated violence in Charlottesville during Trump’s first term, Simmons allegedly blasted his “friend” for being the head of a “great divider” and a “destroyer of the environment and … everything we as Americans have fought so hard to call ours.”
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