ME, ME! It’s unfair of me, but I’m so turned off by the way she dresses, acts and looks that I’m having a hard time trying to look past that and figure out if she reallyl is a “professional businesswoman” with the brains to make it. She bugs me. Omarosa should not have said what she did (it certainly wasn’t professional, no doubt about that), but I can’t say she was wrong.
I like this show a lot more than I thought I would, too - though it certainly makes for a long night of TV since I’m a Survivor addict as well.
I predict Troy will make it down to the last 2 or 3; but there will be some major politics and weasel-like behavior at that point, and it remains to be seen whether he’s cutthroat enough to navigate that.
Jessie- Despite the justice and sweet irony of getting canned for the very thing the girl she dicked over last week did–not speaking up for yourself-- I don’t believe she deserved to go this week. Yes, she wasn’t a polished negotiator; but who should have recognized that and refrained from dropping her in front of such a witty and dry cosmopolitanite as Issac Mizrahi? (By the way, she wasn’t “talking down” to the man- that’s just how she talks!) The answer is the team leader, Omarosa, who, as I predicted, contributed ZERO as a group leader and only existed to belittle others’ efforts. She even tried to hold back her team’s progress by refusing to give Kwame and Jessie that phone number, for the simple reason that she was miffed they thought of something she didn’t and was afraid of looking bad. Omarosa, like Sam, is good television, and watching her come-uppance is going to be sweeter than candy. Trump just loathes her at this point.
Tammy is going to embarrass herself even worse than she did in last night’s episode and go down in an unbelievable fireball.
Kwame’s and Katrina’s luck seem to be holding out as they continue to perfect their technique of treading water, making no visible contribution while others crash and burn all around them.
Interesting thing about Trump- he’s gone against his advisors’ recommendations several times now, and while someone suggested he just wants to hold onto the crazies longer so people will watch, I think it’s more than that. He seems to form a general idea in his of what he’s going to do but doesn’t make a final decision on who’s going until he talks to all three people one final time. And the pattern seems to be that, all he wants from you is to hear that you think you’re worthy and/or have learned from your mistakes. Jason couldn’t admit he’d made a mistake; Kristi couldn’t stand up for herself; Jessie also couldn’t stand up for herself in the sense that she refused to be honest about Omarosa. All three of them would still be in contention if they’d simply been more honest and/or self-aware.
What surprises me most about Jessie in the boardroom is that last week, when Trump asked her directly who was responsible for the team’s loss, she didn’t hesitate to name Kristi. Backstabbing? Maybe. But blunt and honest – maybe even too blunt. So I was surprised to see her insist, when asked directly, that she really did like Omarosa, when that’s so obviously not true. Trump knew it, we knew it, Omarosa knew it, and even Jessie knew it.
I agree, but there’s no way for Mizrahi to have known that, and he’s the one they needed to impress.
Well, as was pointed out last night, she’s never been team leader, which I think means it’s her turn next week. That should be fun.
Why wasn’t Kwame called into the boardroom instead of Heidi? His presentation to Russell Simmons was almost as bad as Jessie’s to Mizrahi. Troy bailed 'em both out. He didn’t deserve to be fired, but he deserved a few minutes worrying about it.
I think some of them are still in a Survivor-style mindset, worrying more about what their teammates think of them than what Trump does. (Jessie, though, I think is just basically nice, and naive. Very 21-year-old Wisconsin girl.) Here, it’s good to take some heat and show you can handle it, bad to try coasting along in the background for too long.
I think it’s funny that Omarosa boasts of the mad verbal skillz that almost got her fired last night. There was no reason for her to be as rude about Heidi and Jessie in the boardroom as she was, and she wasn’t politic enough to realize that. I think she was in more jeopardy after she spoke than before, and she’s lucky that Jessie’s verbal defense skills are even less impressive.
Her inability to learn how to properly pronounce his name was extremely rude and unprofessional.
But I found it somewhat hypocritical for them to call call her on that, when Trump himself couldn’t properly pronounce Elizabeth Glaser’s name. It’s pronounced Glazer, not Glazier, which is what he kept calling her.
Jessie was as good a choice as anyone this week, but Omarosa, Heidi and Tammy all suck, too.
Argh, the show is entertaining, but once again the challenge was unbalanced (though not as bad as when the teams were of opposing sexes). There is no way you can accurately gauge a celebrity’s worth and try to provide both teams with an equivalent amount of celebrity status; especially when most of the auctions boiled down to either a day or night with said celebrity. It’s clear that the producers will go to any length to attract an audience; equality is not a component the producers wish to explore.
No, he was claiming to be a close, personal friend and promoting her foundation on national television. I wonder how he got to be such a close, personal friend who supports her foundation if he’s never approached her in regards to a business proposition.
On all of his talk show appearances to promote the show, Trump has constantly claimed that all of the contestants are “brilliant” and “geniuses” with “IQs in the 200 range” (actual claim). Is it just me, or is anybody else underwhelmed by their intelligence and, most especially, by their creativity (or lack of)?
The Planet Hollywood challenge: the best the male genii could come up with was giving out coupons and ersatz celebrity autographs? And the best the female genii could come up with was to rip off Hooters and to violate NY liquor laws by drinking while on duty? I’d have taken the seed money and had a movie trivia contest or somehow done something to both accentuate the restaurant’s theme AND give the public an incentive to come inside other than overpriced burgers and a glass encased Wilford Brimley speedo.
The Flea Market debacle- T shirts? For Gawd’s sake you’re in NYC, the wholesale capital of the UNIVERSE, and you can’t do better than discount T-shirts? And that was brilliant compared to the cheap Asian crap. How about one of a kind items- rent a great digi-cam and a commercial printer for the day and make personalized T-shirts or something… anything.
Celebrity Auction- nobody denies that pediatric AIDS is a worthy charity, but do you really think Regis Philbin (a man not known for his calm disposition anyway) is going to take a cruise with a stranger? I’m probably a much nicer guy than he is and I sure as hell wouldn’t. And Disco Bowling is the best you can think of for the Fab Five? While I know they don’t have the time and the budget to give somebody a make-over, how about a “the Fab Five will drop in on your party” package? The Hampton’s crowd would be falling over themselves to land a coup like that. (OTOH, “take a mud bath with Kyan” would have been a package that I’d have maxed out every credit card I own or could “find” to place a bid on.)
I’m not sure what their brilliance is, but it ain’t in ingenuity.
Right. And who said she was complaining? I said it came off as hypocritical to chastise someone for mispronouncing someone’s name, then do so yourself, repeatedly. You’re certainly free to disagree. But I cringed every time he mispronounced her name out of one side of his mouth, while claiming to have been such close friends with her out of the other, and then making a big deal out of Omarosa struggling to get Mizrahi right, which is a much more unusual name than Glaser. Not to mention, she wasn’t close, personal friends with the man. But whatever. I was just posting an observation and expressing how it came across to me as a viewer.
And for the record, the foundation isn’t merely named for her; she was one of the co-founders back in 1988 when she learned that she, her daughter and one of her sons were all HIV+.
Oops, haha. I was under the impression Elizabeth Glaser was a contestant on the show (I’ve never been good with names), which would explain my now nullified stance on the situation.
I’m guessing everybody’s familiar, but just in case: if you’re wondering who Elizabeth Glaser was, she was the wife of Paul Michael Glaser (best known as Perchik from Fiddler on the Roof, unless you’re straight, in which case he was the original Starsky). Elizabeth was one of the earliest people to contract HIV, becoming infected during a blood transfusion while pregnant with her daughter Ariel in 1981. She learned she had the disease while pregnant with her son Jake three years later. Ariel died in 1988; Elizabeth became a major crusader for AIDS funding (and a face to point to and say “IT’S NOT JUST A GAY DISEASE!” before dying herself in 1994. Her son was born HIV+ but, thanks in large part to his mother’s work to raise funds and awareness, is alive and well. (Paul Michael Glaser, 60, never contracted the disease; he remarried a few years after Elizabeth’s death and has a daughter with his current wife.)
Business circumstances are unbalanced. Make do with what your got.
Besides, the prize of the day was the Chef Rocco dinner, right? There, it wasn’t the name of the celeb that brought in the bucks but the size and type of the donation – dinner for 50 (!!!).
In the real world, your advice would be quite applicable; but under these incredibly artificial situations, where the team members had no choice of what “company” they work for, it’s a flawed process. Why do you think the women won four challenges in a row? Because they “made do with what [they have]”, which boiled down to them flaunting their breasts at every possible moment. The unbalanced challenges the show purveyed allowed the women to pursue tactics most companies would gawk at.
Last night’s challenge was no exception (though it obviously didn’t cater to any particular sex). While you may be correct in that the name of the celebrity perhaps didn’t sway the bidding substantially (not that I necessarily agree); the celebrities willingness to provide for this auction may have. Just because Chef Rocco provided a dinner for 50 doesn’t mean all the celebrities would have been as generous with their offers (the propositions provided by the teams are irrelevant to my point). The bidders, also have their own biases towards particular celebrities, which is why the Fab 5 earned more than Regis (that one girl who bid 10,000 on Carson Daly was insane - in a crazy sense, not an actual mental disorder).
I don’t know. I think Jessie was someone that would have walked through fucking walls for Trump. She would have loved him, feared him, and respected him - and that’s a powerful combination (love is fickle, fear is permanent!).
She’s young and ‘Wisconsin nice’, but she was also a big sponge, soaking up everything around her. (and she was also easy on the eyes.) She wouldn’t be as strong out of the box (as it were) like a Troy or Nick, but she would have learned quickly, and would have been an extremely loyal foot soldier for Trump.
Omarosa - oh Jesus Fucking Christ on a pogo stick this women annoys me to no end. I lost what little vestige of respect I had for her when she started tossing around the ‘race card’ for someone using the ‘calling the kettle black’ proverb. I can not believe she is still around.
My assumption is that the show is trimming the weaker personalities; later shows with a bunch of Type As going ballistic on each other will be a ball to watch! Sam was definitely not a weak personality but he was too much of a nutcase to keep on. I definitely agree with mcms_cricket’s insight.
Well, it’ll be interesting to watch the board room sessions and see if my hunch plays out at all… I could be attributing more to Trump’s comments than is really there.
Cricket (due next week with the 'Lil Cricket!)