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Sugar
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08-15-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 9:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sugar a private message Print Post    
Did anyone else notice that they forgot to put makeup on Donald Jr's ears? They were so much brighter than his face. Also, at the end, Ivanka had to nudge him to end the show.

Glad it is over.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 9:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
One last thing... I was really impressed with how Stefani kept her cool thoughout this competition. She never really raised her voice or got into altercations. She was never brought back into the boardroom, she was never blamed for a task failure. And she never really spent a whole lotta time whining about living in tents, or the bizarro focus on Tim/Nicole. I think she had a secret strategy... sit back, and let those other three self-destruct. At some point, all three of them would say something that would be inappropriate or would irritate Trump. (Frank was practically incoherent last night!)

And... wasn't it raining, or drizzling, at the Hollywood Bowl last night? They didn't show much of the audience, but when they showed a long shot of the stage, you could see rain/drizzle coming down in the lights. Yuck!

Spear
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08-06-2001

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 10:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Spear a private message Print Post    
I think Stefani did say that she "stepped up" and volunteered to be PM after Surya was fired. I don't know how the PM got chosen but James got it (also his first time) instead. After that there was never another chance for her to become PM.

Webchiq
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07-11-2005

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 10:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Webchiq a private message Print Post    
I own a company and there is nothing wrong with my employees having an interoffice relationship, as long as it doesn't affect the workplace. As someone who met and married a co-worker, many moons ago, I can assure you that it is quite possible to keep the two separated and keep your private life personal.

The key is that a management person should not have a relationship with a subordinate. That is not acceptable in any workplace, but two equals having a relationship is not usually discouraged, at least in the technology world. With the long hours involved, it's can sometimes be the best way to meet someone.

I thought Trump's obsession with Tim & Nicole's interest in each other was creepy and I agree with Bonbon that had it not been for the overproduction of their interest, for the purpose of entertaining viewers, we wouldn't have even known about it.

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 10:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    

quote:

Trump was saying having relationships with people you work with was an issue. As it is in most organizations.




Perhaps it depends on the industry or region, but I have worked in many organizations, firms, and businesses where intraoffice relationships are very common...

But if that is Trumps position, he should have made the rules clear from the get go and then fired both Tim and Nicole when they crosses his line...

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Exactly Bonbon... which is what infuriates me even more about the show. Trump was obsessed with Tim and Nicole's relationship and pushing them to talk about it when they clearly didn't want to discuss it... and then he throws it up in their faces last night!!!



Peeper
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06-14-2004

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 10:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Peeper a private message Print Post    
I felt that Invanka was out of place interviewing these people. I know that she has the best education daddy can buy, but she just did not seem experienced or mature enough to be a recruiter or an interviewer for a high paid executive position. (Donald Trump Jr. looked even more out of place than she did)

Lexie_girl
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07-30-2004

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 11:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lexie_girl a private message Print Post    
Another good point... its not like Ivanka and Jr. had to interview for their jobs.



Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Interestingly, looks like Stefani didn't win a car, as past winners did. Maybe the car sponsor decided they no longer wanted to be part of the show?

Not part of the no. 1 show on TV?

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 12:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Here's an exclusive interview with Stefani Schaeffer.

Pixieduster
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09-27-2004

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pixieduster a private message Print Post    
I gasped when I first saw Stefani - it looked like they put a spit shine on a dead animal and threw it on her head. What in the world????

During most of the season, I thought she seemed remote and uninvolved...eventually it seemed as if they were editing her to fly under the radar so she could step out at the end with a grand "Ta Dah" and win the thing.

She did impress me as she spoke during the final boardroom and handled her answers better than anyone else. But how they could have knocked her about not stepping up to be PM - they created that silly scenario where the PM got to repeat over and over again, so everyone wasn't going to get a change to manage anyway.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Poking around a bit on the BuddyTV site (btw, great interview with Stefani there... she really comes across as intelligent and articulate), I came across a poster saying:

quote:

Strategist said: OK, I found this quote from an interview that James Sun gave sometime during the filming of Apprentice. This demonstrates that James had other reasons for competing on Apprentice, besides the job with Donald. Probably why he was fired. Did it to Promote his own company. Please see below: But the 1999 business graduate of the University of Washington said “The Apprentice,” which has already been filmed and debuts Jan. 7, could be a great marketing vehicle for his company, which just launched last week. “As a Web 2.0 company, it is very hard to get mainstream exposure,” he said. “It is very easy to get your first couple thousand users who are tech geeks, but besides that, it is very difficult to tap into that mainstream market.” Sun added that the people who watch “The Apprentice” — young, urban professionals who like to share their lifestyle — are a perfect fit for Zoodango.


And y'know, that kinda makes sense.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
Interesting about James. You know, I never got the impression that he was interested in Trump's business, more just the 'idea' of winning the apprenticeship as an immigrant success story, yada yada. I imagine that factored into Trump's decision as well.

Then there's Stefani, who displayed a lot of passion for the work, and a firm understanding of what real estate development entails. After we learned more about her and she made her case, I thought "How can Trump NOT hire her??"

Loved Stef's martial arts clip too, to show him that she can really kick some as-

Bonbonlover
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07-13-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bonbonlover a private message Print Post    
Good find Costa...and that does make a lot of sense...I also can see why if James had said such things during The Apprentice it wouldn't make the show...

Happymom
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01-20-2003

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 2:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Happymom a private message Print Post    
I missed most of the season. I did watch last night and last week. I did not enjoy seeing Omarosa waving and smiling at the camera last night (she was next to the box where the previous winners were sitting).

I thought James' girls were adorable too. I wonder if both had made videos with their families and at work and they showed us the work part for Steph. and the family part for James. Before either video was shown, he said we'd be seeing a video of Steph's family.

LOL about Don Jr.'s hands being feminine! (earlier in the thread) (Reminds me of the Seinfeld ep. of the opposite...a woman with manhands!)

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
I loved seeing George do his walkon.

DT jr and Ivanka just dont have the streetcred to pull off making the comments that they do.

I really liked Caroline and George. They sometimes would really go to bat for someone in the boardroom if DT had the wrong idea of what went wrong.

I sure hope that there isnt a next season LOL

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
BLASPHEMER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whoami
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08-03-2001

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 4:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Whoami a private message Print Post    

quote:

I really liked Caroline and George. They sometimes would really go to bat for someone in the boardroom if DT had the wrong idea of what went wrong.




That may have been exactly their downfall. I'm betting DT does not appreciate being told he has the wrong idea. Ivanka and DTJ's primary roles this season was to sit in the boardroom and say, "you made the right decision" to DT's firing.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Monday, April 23, 2007 - 5:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
I agree that DT jr and Ivanka while impressive for their ages are just too green (or deluded) for their roles. Most of their observations seem valid, but they appear to have very little regard for the candidates professional accomplishments. They speak to them as if they are college interns. Asking Stefani and James if they could work independently took the cake, lol

Puzzled
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08-27-2001

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Puzzled a private message Print Post    
The best part of this finale was that it was only an hour.

Ivanka and Junior just come off so full of themselves. They don't realize that the contestants are their peers, and a lot of them have better creds than they do, because they weren't handed a job by Daddy. They just don't measure up to George and Carolyn.

Frank really imploded. He wasn't ready for Trump's question--and he should have been, considering that Trump has been insanely obsessed with Tim/Nicole.

Like several others, I'm thinking this might be the last Apprentice, too. Earlier they were touting Apprentice Las Vegas--no mention at the finale, for this # 1 show.

Rehtse
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08-17-2005

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 - 9:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rehtse a private message Print Post    
I hate how Trump said "last week I ...bla bla bla" in reference to the previous week's episode and passed it off as if the events of that episode had taken place only 7 days before. We all know that it was taped and that the candidates went home for however long! Annoying.(Hope that makes sense.)

Rvon
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12-11-2003

Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 10:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rvon a private message Print Post    
This is from James' blog on his Zoodango website, in which he tries to answer everyone's questions about what he said to Trump. It is incredibly long, but very interesting.

I want to start by thanking all of my supporters and fans of "The Apprentice" and most importantly, the users of Zoodango. It's been a wonderful experience over the past 14 weeks. Last night was the final episode of "The Apprentice," and in a way, I'm very happy that everything's come to a close. The live finale was fun and entertaining, and it was great to see all my fellow candidates whom I haven’t seen since the taping 9 months ago.
For those of you who didn’t see the finale or follow the season, I’ll make the long story short. “The Apprentice” is a reality television show about Type-A business personalities competing on business related projects week in and week out. Each week, there is a winning team and a losing team, and Donald Trump fires a person from the losing team. The goal is to win projects, not get fired, and display as much leadership as possible.
This season, the final four consisted of me, Frank, Nicole, and Stefani. All the candidates displayed great moments during the show, and they all deserved to be at the final table. Going into the finale, I thought I had a fair shot at winning the reality tv competition. After all, I was the only finalist with both an overall winning record (7-5) and winning project management record (2-1). I stepped up 3 times as project manager, which was more than all the final four combined. Frank and Nicole both had an overall losing record of 5-7 and losing project manager record of 0-1. Stefani had the same overall winning record of 7-5 as me, but she never took on the role as project manager. In addition, there were 3 sets of executives from the sponsoring companies that specifically mentioned my strong leadership.
As I thought about my odds of winning, I was sure that Donald Trump would be the type of executive that would look at the bottom line when awarding the victor of the show. I was also sure that Donald Trump would only award the crown to someone who took risk and displayed leadership since he always preached “taking risk” and “stepping up”. I also took into consideration the precedence of how he has made previous decisions. In every season of “The Apprentice”, the previous winners have had a winning project management record……five seasons in a row. So when you look at the data, you can understand I wasn’t being overconfident……I was just looking at my odds based on the objective data.
Some of my contacts warned me that Donald Trump may not make his decisions on objective facts, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. The media portrays him as an erratic and emotional character, but I found him to be a quite sensible and rational business executive. At the same time, I understood that “The Apprentice” was a television game show first with a business concept second. As a fellow CEO (obviously Zoodango is not as big as Trump International), I wanted to believe that Donald Trump would look at the overall facts, essentially the annual report, and make his decision. So based on the facts, my chances looked pretty good…….believe it or not, you could have placed a bet on me in Vegas…..the Vegas odds-makers gave me the best odds at winning the competition. On the NBC website, the viewer polls had me leading up until 15 minutes of the finale. So the question then lies, what happened?
In all of my press interviews this morning, they asked me why Donald Trump didn't hire me. They all asked me about what Donald Trump meant by saying "I didn't like some of the dialogue……you know what I mean." I've received over 300 emails about this confusion as well. People are asking me if I had a disagreement with Donald Trump or if I said something wrong during the commercial breaks. People are asking me if Donald Trump was displeased with something I said during the season.
Well, let’s analyze this a bit further. First, his second statement about “you know what I mean” signifies that the dialogue must have been a 2-way communication between him and I or a reference to a conversation about something I may have said. It also signifies that the dialogue must have been offensive enough to warrant an expectation that both parties would recall this so called dialogue. So, I went through my 150 pages of journaling. I kept a journal every single day during the taping of the show. As I read through the journal, there were only two negative comments to me by Donald Trump. In the Smart Mouth task, he told me that I did a bad job, but that I was a good leader in previous tasks. Another reference was on the Las Vegas Towers task, he told me that he didn’t like one of the stock photos that we chose on the brochure and he didn’t like the color of the gold shade on the Trump Towers. These were the only references to direct negative statement from Donald Trump to me during the entire season. On the other hand, I can give you at least 23 references when he gave me praise. Even during the GNC boardroom, when Bill Rancic accused me of covering my butt, Donald Trump stood up for me and said, “James did nothing wrong…..in fact, maybe Surya should have listened to him.” Even when I took negative heat in the boardroom, Donald Trump stood up for me and did not fire me.
So, this throws out the theory that this mysterious dialogue occurred during the actual taping of the season (task or boardroom). Next, we have to look at the negative statements that I may have said during my personal interviews. I did say some negative things about some of my competitors in my personal interviews. But the reality is that everyone made these kinds of statements. The producers ask you all kinds of “funny” questions that lead you into saying something comical or sarcastic about your competitors……the purpose of this is to make entertaining television. Remember, this is a reality television show. So, then you have to ask yourself….did everyone say negative things or was it just me. So, I went back to the tapes of everyone on the final four, and what I found interesting was that all of us said negative things about others. So, this throws out the assumption that this mysterious dialogue happened during our personal interviews. It also doesn’t make sense that this dialogue would have originated from the personal interviews because Donald Trump never spoke with me about any of these interviews. So, there’s really no way for his comment about “you know what I mean” to make sense.
Through the process of elimination, we can conclude that the “mysterious dialogue” did not happen during actual projects, boardroom, or personal interviews. So this leaves us with the live finale. Did I say something during the live finale or during commercial time that could have offended Donald Trump? First, I will tell you that I said absolutely nothing to Donald Trump during the commercials. He said a few words to us, but he was busy getting ready for the next take. As of right now, I don’t know what the heck Donald Trump was referring to with this “mysterious dialogue.” He looked at me and said “you know what I mean” which confused me even more. I was completely dumbfounded.
However, I can speculate one thing. During the finale, I did mention in my personal tape that I quit a six-figure job to start my own company and focused on my conviction of why I wanted to be my own boss. I also mentioned how much I enjoy my time with family. Next, I committed the big “slap on the hand” by answering Don Jr.’s question that I am the current founder and CEO of Zoodango.com. In the real world, this statement would be 100% okay. But on television, especially on Donald Trump’s show where companies pay millions of dollars for product endorsements…..any reference to a company is treated as an endorsement for promoting the company. To be 100% honest with you, I did not intentionally bring up the name Zoodango.com…..it just happened. Zoodango.com is literally a part of who I am now. I eat, sleep, drink, and wake up to Zoodango.com. It’s just part of my every day speech. In retrospect, many people would probably have advised me to use the live audience of 8 million viewers to promote my company, but I wasn’t thinking this way. If this were indeed my pure intention, I would have given the whole CEO elevator pitch. When Don Jr. asked me the strategic thinking or big picture question, I gave him an example by pointing to Zoodango.com. After seeing that I love being an entrepreneur, and I love hanging with my wife and kids, and I love Zoodango……maybe Trump didn’t see how I had any more room to love him. After all, he did tell Nicole that he wanted to be loved more than Tim. Well, I can only speculate, but I have no choice but to speculate since I wasn’t given a clear and compelling answer from Mr. Trump.
Now I know the following question will be asked. If I could do the whole finale all over again, would I have created the same video footage of my family, the speech about being an entrepreneur, and promoting Zoodango.com. Here’s my answer. YES! I have no choice. Here’s what I mean by saying that I have no choice. I am who I am. I am a proud family man. I love being an entrepreneur. And I love Zoodango.com. During the finale, I made a subconscious decision to choose my life today over the life that Trump’s new job could offer. Not that Trump’s deal isn’t great…….it’s a phenomenal opportunity to work with Donald Trump making $250K. It just wasn't for me this time around.
Like I said, I don’t take credit for this decision at all……..it was my subconscious choice. Our subconscious makes all kinds of decisions…..we just have to recognize when it happens. It’s very self-revealing and empowering because it tells you what’s important in your life. Did I have to go on “The Apprentice” and make it to the finale to realize my subconscious priorities? No……but in this case, it all worked out.
I’ll tell you the simplest reason why I went on this show. I thought it would be fun/adventurous and a great opportunity to learn from a billionairre. . I love adventure. I’ve got a philosophy that I live by: “My philosophy is to live a life of short street corners. Every turn could yield a new surprise. It could be good, bad, or great but at least it keeps us excited and on our toes. Life is no fun on a long, straight highway knowing exactly where we're going to end up." This is why I went on the show. In my adventure, I also found competition. I am a very, very competitive person. Ask my buddies who have played basketball with me. In my pursuit on “The Apprentice,” I got closer and closer to winning…….and finally, I just wanted to win so bad especially for the sake of competing. I’m not saying that this is a bad thing. Some people say that your motive should be 100% to work for Donald Trump forever. Well, this is crazy. Why would you have to go through a reality television show to work for Donald Trump. Send in a resume and application the conventional way. He’s got great people who will call and interview you. People go on “The Apprentice” for all kinds of reasons…..but mine happened to be to gain some Trump insight and create adventure with a cause. I’m sure you now understand the adventure part. Now, here’s the “cause” part. The cause part was to show my two little girls that they could achieve anything in life. If daddy - a minority Asian American – can get on prime time television, then they can certainly do anything in this world. I hope and pray that my two girls will have no boundaries or glass ceilings in their pursuit of their dreams. I was so proud to see them on television during the finale. That moment was certainly the best moment during my whole stint on “The Apprentice”…..yes, even better than rapping with Snoop Dogg.
All in all, this was a great experience. I still wish I had won because I’m just a competitive guy, but I believe Stefani has the right industry background. I won’t concede that she outperformed me from a game perspective because I did have the numbers in my favor and I did show more leadership and creativity, but I believe Stefani has a great legal and real estate background….perfect for Trump’s world and she's a great person. I live in a world of the Web 2.0 and social networking and the internet……not quite the world of Donald Trump. I only wish I could have gotten a more clear and definitive reason why I lost this game, but that’s the game of life…..some things are meant to be in the grey.

Costacat
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Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Oh good gawd.

First, his ego.

Second, his SUBCONSCIOUS caused him to lose to Stefani? WTH?

I never liked him, and even less now.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
The first thing that bugged me was James' bad grammar here:

"...signifies that the dialogue must have been a 2-way communication between him and I or a reference to...."

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
The second thing was his incredibly long-long-long paragraph that could have been condensed to the last 3 sentences. (When he was trying to explain DT's comment; "I didn't like some of the dialogue……you know what I mean.")

For those of you who did not read his novel, the last three sentences were:

"As of right now, I don’t know what the heck Donald Trump was referring to with this “mysterious dialogue.” He looked at me and said “you know what I mean” which confused me even more. I was completely dumbfounded. "

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 8:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I found James' comments interesting. I'd like to know what Trump was talking about. I suspect it was regarding James' self promotion.

I don't care about James or Trump's grammar. I'm interested in them for other reasons.

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 10:02 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jasper a private message Print Post    
I recently saw in People an old pic of Stefanie Powers from her Hart to Hart days (not this pic)I think she looks so much like Stefanie

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, April 27, 2007 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Sheesh! He writes just like he talks.. endlessly, with no breaks

Smartypants
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03-09-2007

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No Kidding Sea!!....I literally felt out of breath after I read it!

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

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I won’t concede that she outperformed me from a game perspective because I did have the numbers in my favor and I did show more leadership and creativity, but I believe Stefani has a great legal and real estate background….perfect for Trump’s world and she's a great person. I live in a world of the Web 2.0 and social networking and the internet……not quite the world of Donald Trump.

bingo!

Stefani has reminded me of Connie Seleca, Susan Lucci, and Jaclyn Smith. She is gorgeous imo.

Rvon
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12-11-2003

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 12:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rvon a private message Print Post    
I finally watched a re-run of the Finale tonight (I missed it Sunday night) on CNBC, and I must say, even though I knew James personally at one time and I was his biggest fan, I found Stefani to be an absolute breath of fresh air. She is so polished and professional, and she was definitely prepared to fight for this title. Trump did pick the best candidate for his company. Good for her!

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 4:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
And James harping on his being PM, well it was Trump's silly new rule that kept him "in power" and didn't allow Stefani to "step up".

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Costacat a private message Print Post    
Yeah, I thought much the same, Sea... he was comparing his stats against other winning apprentii, and well, this season, the game changed!

The other thing... he kept saying REALITY TV SHOW!!! Seriously, I think he thought the whole thing was a game.

I do think Trump picked the best person. Especially after reading James' blog.