Apprentice Finale Not so Finalized

Apprentice Finale Not so Finalized by Roxanne McDonald

The Apprentice finale–finally. And then again, maybe not so final. The people have spoken, and the people continue to speak…furiously questioning what Trump meant when he told James, right before firing him, that were some unresolved issues–comments and things–that pissed him off about James.

James has some predictions about Trumps reservations; Nicole is still joking about how she thought Stefani had no chance; and I who am as susceptible to predictions and proselytizing on subjects I have limited knowledge on (business on such a grand scale) refuse to offer another recap, despite how I took my usually scrupulous notes— deferring to the many fine recaps already extant and to the more insider-savvy interviewers and correspondents.

At least the announcer didn’t promise “the most shocking finale ever”—as many are wont to do even when there is nothing unpredictable about a backstab, a backslide, or a backpedal, as this “Apprentice: Los Angeles” final episode seemed to contain.

Didn’t Trump seem to lean toward James throughout the season? What little whispers in his ear at half-time (or, as he implied, throughout the course) made him change his mind?

Was it the immigrant angle that James played in his final video, the implied but no less fallacious angle that says because I want this and need this as an immigrant I therefore deserve it? Was it something he wrote on his site, Zoodango.com, or something he said in pointing to his existing site?

Even Stefani thought James had it, and was “shocked” to hear her own name inserted into the now infamous tag line, “You’re hired.” At Reality TV World, Christopher Rocchio reports how Stefani felt going in to the finale:

“I was very relaxed because going into the finale, I really thought James had it…. I thought that Mr. Trump was very fond of James, and I thought Mr. Trump would be saying, ‘James you’re hired.’ And so I wasn’t nervous at all because I figured well I’m going to go out and just argue for the fun of it and have a good time and congratulate James, who I respect and care about very much.”
Carrie, at Reality Shack Blog actually communicated with James, who wrote to her in response to one of her recaps and who tried to explain Trump’s reasoning as he understood it. James evidently sent Carrie to his website/blog to get insight into the “mysterious dialogue.” However, Carrie surmises, James is as clueless about Trump’s rationale as the rest of the James camp is.

In another camp on the other side of town, Nicole speaks (or writes) in an interview with Gina at Reality Check:
Nicole says she and Tim had joked that of the final four, Stefani was the least likely to win (though this writer begs to differ). Nicole also admits she also has no clue about what Trump was alluding to, though, she says, she is “dying to know!”

Maybe, she speculates with the rest of us, it had something to do with James continually promoting his own company. After all, as we heard Trump say to Nicole, he wants his minions to love him, to pay the most attention to him and his cause (making more money for him and his). Then again, says Nicole, Tim suggests that Trump was unhappy with how James “complained about everything at the last minute” during the GMC task, Nicole says.

So even from the mouths (or keyboards) of the people who were there—who were Trumpire hopefuls—we still don’t have accurate conclusions/interpretations. That’s frightening enough, that his apprentice wannabes didn’t have the inside scoop. Also frightening is what Carrie at Reality Shack Blog suggests, that “…maybe Trump was referring to something completely different that we’ll never know about.”
More disturbing, then, is that we might never know, might be left to exchanging speculations until we are spent on the series, and that then, we will have to go through something like this all over again when “The Apprentice” 7 comes round.

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