From the previews, it looks like they might switch from team challenges to individual challenges. I hope so. It’s time that the weakest members don’t receive protection because they are lucky enough to be on a strong team.
I predict that one of the guys will get canned tonight. Trump will keep Assorama around for the entertainment value. He won’t fire Heidi right now because of her admirable behavior in the face of the bad news she got last week and also because she is fun to watch. Ereka and Amy are probably still in the running. Katrina is the female in most danger of being fired this week.
But since the guys have gotten something of a free pass in the last few weeks, I think we’ll see one get fired tonight. Bill and Troy are probably still being considered for the big prize. Nick has made some big mistakes and some really good moves and is definitely interesting. Plus, I think Trump likes him–He may see Nick as being the one who is most like him. So, unless Nick has a major screw-up, he’s safe. That leaves Kwame. I’m actually surprised he hasn’t been fired by now. He’s such a turnip.
So, I’m guessing that Kwame will get on the down elevator, with a possibility that Katrina will be there instead.
Trump should just stop the contest and hire Troy right now.
I think Nick is a blow hard and a buffoon and he’s probably the one who should have gotten canned tonight…well, actually assorama should have gotten canned but she’s had her ass saved two weeks in a row by Troy.
It was interesting that Trump fired Erika based on her wimpiness in protecting her friend rather than her performance on the task. Nick’s smirk was a little uncalled for being as he did a horrible job at what he claims to be so great at.
I was suprised Nick didn’t get the boot, given that it was his incompetence with the paperwork that cost them sales.
OTOH, Trump misses nothing – just because someone doesn’t get booted one particular week doesn’t mean that that person is still actually in the running.
I picked up more that Ereka was fired for making decisions based upon emotions rather than facts. As her “company” was divided into two teams, the team who brought in the least should have been there with her, not one member of the less productive team and her own partner. There was no reason at all for Bill to be in that room.
Was The Donald implying a non-standard level of affection between the girls when he kept referring to Katrina as Ereka’s “girlfriend?”
Honestly, once Ereka’s team lost, I knew she was getting the boot. Bill didn’t deserve it, and Nick and Amy are having an affair. The Nick/Amy thing, even though it was only 3 minutes of the show, is being heavily promoted in the advertising. No way was Nick going to get the boot after those commericals. Maybe that’s meta-viewing, but I was right.
Yes, Troy was The Man this time around again. I see him going a long way.
Trump made a big deal about Erika letting Katrina go free because they were ‘friends.’ Hello! She had to choose two people out of three! SOMEONE had to be left out.
By the way, anyone think Trump will end the final episode, when he has to choose between the last two contestants, with: “You’re HIRED!”
Trump’s justifications for firing people are getting more and more sketchy; I suppose that’s inevitable as more cast members get whittled away. Nick was just a jackass tonight, but I can’t see high-strung Ereka as president of a company either. She had to go sometime. I found it amusing that she accused Bill of “selling her out” in the boardroom. I don’t recall Bill making any promises about being her ally.
Amy and Troy are clearly Trump’s favorites at this point. I can’t wait for Omarosa’s downfall.
Omarosa actually thinks she’s being a trooper.
I’m floored.
I’m also picking Troy to win this thing. The way he shared all the credit for the win was brilliant. And his awe at the Statue of Liberty was just too cute.
Nick is the male Assorama, only with less to back up his big mouth. His useless, self-aggrandizing ass should have been out of there after Planet Hollywood, when he just shut down mid-task. He can’t lead (they won the flea market thing totally because of the girls, but he acted like he’d personally come up with, planned, and executed everything), he can’t follow (his little silent protest at PH, his snotting at Ereka about learning the client before you meet the client), and he certainly has no intention of shutting up and getting out of the way. He’s…well, this isn’t the Pit, so I can’t go into my true opinion of him. Let’s just say it’s unflattering, and leave it at that.
I think if Ereka had done a better job of explaining why she brought Bill with her (her explanation pre-Boardroom made a certain amount of sense, even if I disagreed with her), she might still be in the game. If she’d said, “Well, our downfall as a team was the distributing company, and Bill and I were the ones who screwed that one up, so obviously we both need to be in here. That leaves Nick or Katrina, and all those invoices I was trying to fix had Nick’s name on them. He cost us a lot of sales, so he’s the one in the hotseat,” it just might have been enough to tip the scales. After all, Trump seems to be less and less impressed with Nick’s self-proclaimed charisma.
His stated justifications are often somewhat weak, but I suspect that he is choosing who to fire based on another set of criteria entirely. Twickster pointed out that there are probably people who are still in the game who are pegged for firing. So, when given a choice between two or three people that he plans to get rid of anyway, he seems to make the decision based on what will best serve the show. And I don’t mean that in a cynical “oh, he’s just going for ratings” kind of way. The more colorful characters create situations that are not only entertaining, but also give Trump and his minions opportunities to observe the contestants in a variety of difficult situations. So he canned boring Jessie instead of bigmouth Heidi. He canned boring Bowie instead of jackass Nick. In the cases where he has fired the more colorful character, like Sam, he seems to do it with an excellent sense of comic timing. There is a point where the fascinatingly deluded character becomes just plain annoying, and Trump has gotten rid of them at just the right point.
But then again, what do I know? All my predictions were wrong.
Ereka totally put the nail in her proverbial coffin by choosing to take Bill into the boardroom instead of Katrina. Both she and Nick made egregious mistakes during the task, but I’d guess that tipped the balance. I wouldn’t want someone like her running my company–she’d be likely to make important staffing decisions based mostly on “friendship,” and not on performance.
And I loved how Troy showed so much appreciation for the Statue of Liberty. She really is spectacular.
I agree with you – which is why Ass-aroma will be outta here the minute her ass hits the boardroom. Damn the luck that she’s on Troy’s team – it’s the only reason she’s still in the game.
Well… I wouldn’t go that far. Omarosa, shit, the woman’s a Klingon.
Nick completely choked last night, and he did it in the worst way possible- while trumpeting his talents repeatedly. I wouldn’t go so far as to call him useless, but he definitely pulled some boners (insert Amy joke here) and I’ll grant you he can be arrogant.
Ereka’s departure was likely written in the stars since, like the windbag Katrina and, I daresay, Heidi, she’s way too emotional to lead effectively or deal professionally with criticism. What I found interesting, though, was her being called on showing favoritism to her friend when Bill basically did the same thing. In my mind, it was a dead heat last night bewteen Nick and Ereka being shown the door, and let’s face it, Bill is as chummy with Nick as she was with Katrina. When Trump put Bill on the hotseat and asked him who should go, you just knew he’d never pick Nick over one of the women. Yeah, I know, he says he was still smarting from being grilled in the boardroom last week, but come on. The allegiances formed in the early boy/girl contests obviously still resonate.
I really liked Ereka, though. Though she’d be a raging forest fire to date, but she was smart and cute as hell.
Troy, man. The guy’s a fucking dynamo. The fact that he owns that place while easily being the most likable of all of them is tremendously satisfying.
I agree with whoever said it’s academic at this point. It’ll go down to a guy and girl, and unless they fuck up in some way, Troy and Amy are the only true contenders.
Kwame’s survival continues to fascinate me. He is the low-flying radar avoider of all time.
Well - I came in to write something, but you guys have already said pretty much I thought/wanted to say. Damn.
Yeah, Nick really put his foot in it, didn’t he? One more sub-par performance and he might be gone. But, I have a hunch that he often pulls out his best performance when the pressure is really on.
Assaroma - thankfully we didn’t see much of her the last half of the show. God she is the bitch from hell. What a fu**ing tool.
One interesting thing that I didn’t hear anyone notice last night - Troy’s team had 5 people, the other team only had 4. I wonder if they could have won any points by calling the ‘undermanned’ card. Still, in terms of sales per person Troy’s team won handily.
I bet the re-cast the teams to two teams of 4 vs 4. My guess is that they will let the undermanned team vote for one person to come to theirs - and they would be crazy to not pick Troy, right? That would be some team, huh? Bill, Nick, Katrina, and Troy.
Aren’t they going to have to reshuffle teams again, now that Ereka’s former team is down to Nick, Bill, and Katrina? They’ll either have the chance to steal someone from the other team, or Trump will do a total reassignment. Anyone know if next week is a team activity? Seems like we’d be stuck with teams until we’re down to just a few people, but I’m not sure what they’re exactly doing next week.
Well - I came in to write something, but you guys have already said pretty much I thought/wanted to say. Damn.
Yeah, Nick really put his foot in it, didn’t he? One more sub-par performance and he might be gone. But, I have a hunch that he often pulls out his best performance when the pressure is really on.
Assaroma - thankfully we didn’t see much of her the last half of the show. God she is the bitch from hell. What a fu**ing tool.
One interesting thing that I didn’t hear anyone notice last night - Troy’s team had 5 people, the other team only had 4. I wonder if they could have won any points by calling the ‘undermanned’ card. Still, in terms of sales per person Troy’s team won handily.
I bet the re-cast the teams to two teams of 4 vs 4. My guess is that they will let the undermanned team vote for one person to come to theirs - and they would be crazy to not pick Troy, right? That would be some team, huh? Bill, Nick, Katrina, and Troy.
I loved the last comment by Trump’s female associate at the very end. Trump says something like ‘that was a hard decision’, and she goes ‘not so hard’. Classic diss!
So glad to see Ereka gone, she’s been annoying since day 1. Now just to dump Omarosa, Katrina (who turns into a harpy every time someone disagrees with her), and Nick.
Bill, too. He’s been, well, touted as a great financial guy - but he hasn’t done anything impressive yet. (He’s been better than Kwame, but not by much.) Just slightly better than bare minimum, which is all you need when your teammates are crashing and burning.
They’re halfway done, so next week, might they dump the team idea altogether and end up in one large team or as 8 individual projects?
