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The journalist who has interviewed Donald Trump more than any other since Trump left office isn’t Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, or that guy who’s dating Marjorie Taylor Greene. It’s Ramin Setoodeh, the co-editor-in-chief of Variety and the author of Apprentice in Wonderland, which comes out on Tuesday.Setoodeh’s book is a deep dive into The Apprentice, which ran for 14 seasons from 2004 to 2015 and repackaged and reintroduced Trump to a national audience. The show portrayed him not as a failed businessman and philandering D-list celebrity the way many New Yorkers saw him, but instead as a capitalist hero. It also may have been what got us here.
The Apprentice Is the Skeleton Key to Understanding Trump
Ramin Setoodeh, author of a new book about the show, says a reality-TV mindset guides the ex-president’s entire life.
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