Trump Quits NBC’s ‘Apprentice’ To Launch Presidential Exploratory Committee
Donald Trump this time is trying to look like he could be a serious candidate, so he’s quitting his reality TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Donald Trump tried to look like he was going to run for president in the lead up to the 2012 race, but given his contract with NBC, he was roundly mocked. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell repeatedly chastised him, and his own bosses at the network, for the charade.
But now, perhaps The Donald has learned his lesson.
Despite just four weeks ago announcing live on-air during the season finale of NBC’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” Trump’s long-running reality TV show, that he was renewing his contract for an eighth season, he’s now flip-flopping.
The 68-year old will now not renew his NBC contract, a senior advisor tells the New Hampshire Union Leader. Instead, “Trump will launch a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday, the eve of the business mogul’s return to New Hampshire.”
Trump will visit the Granite State Thursday, and “is also one of the confirmed possible presidential hopefuls to speak at the New Hampshire Republican Party’s ‘First in the Nation’ Republican Leadership Summit being held in Nashua on April 17-18.”
A Trump EVP claimed in 2013 that the real estate mogul had already spent $1 million on researching a 2016 White House run.
Trump, who has been married three times, has made clear he is not a support of marriage equality.
“I think I’m evolving, and I think I’m a very fair person, but I have been for traditional marriage,” he told MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts in November of 2013. “I am for traditional marriage, I am for a marriage between a man and a woman.”
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