Eh, maybe. Personally, I think that’s ascribing too much deviousness to Trump. It also means that Trump would be paying an awful lot of money for little tangible benefit.
Besides, who are we to say that Trump does want to fulfill some hypothetical quota? We could argue (misguidedly, IMO) that it would be advantageous for him to do so, but that doesn’t mean that he takes the same view.
True. I was also assuming that Burnett may have had the idea to renew Rancic. I’d put NOTHING past him.
He may even have paid for it.
Think about it. Since Rancic got renewed, I have seen him interviewed a few times on National TV. Several Net and Newspaper articles.
It doesn’t take long for the value of such press to exceed 250k.
My bet would be on the team that loses walks and the team of 2 that wins advances to the final challenge(s)
I don’t know that Verna walking off has much to with the change, I think it is just a matter of them changing it up a bit to keep peoples attention and build on what is going on here, having more people talk about it. Last season on the Levi’s task Trump fired two people, he started with two more people than the season before, maybe it was done only for the sake of good TV, just like tonights change from the previous seasons.
Unfortunately, I’ll be watching Survivor, which is going head-to-head with Apprentice tonight. Thank god for the Raj ratings…
I have to admit that I’m disappointed that they’re dropping the interviews. I was looking forward to them firing Craig just based on his insane rambling. Maybe he could call his interviewer Young Lady too.
Hee! Esp. if the guy interviewing him were that incoherent guy from the finale last season.
Okay – push has just come to shove – Apprentice vs. Survivor, head to head.
I’m here – anyone else?
I’m here, and I’m lost.
Is that “rock star” theme incorporating the idea of “50 years of t-shirts” at all?
And can the heart shirt guy think of anything besides hearts?
You don’t know what the word “insane” means, young lady. 
Heh,Kendra beat Craig in the dog fight. That must have killed him to lose to a woman. 
Craig and Kendra literally gunning for each other? Too funny!
Good move, Tana.
The Wife and I were saying she had to use the overall record card.
Whoa. I thought Tana was a goner for minute but I think she really saved herself with a strong 2nd Boardroom. Bringing up her record against Alex’s was smart and she gave a solid response to the question about her toughness. She really is a good face to face speaker. Alex wasn’t in her league in that regard.
Yeah, she’s good. Esp. after the whole thing about “why the hell did you go to Staten Island” thing.
And yay, we get to see Craig get interviewed next week?
(but the store did not have sparkley-thing machine … she could have gotten rhinestones anywhere)
I don’t really believe that the waste of time travelling to Staten Island was the task breaker here. They lost because they were only selling t-shirts instaed of “limited edition famous artist” things.
That price point was pretty steep, even for New York.
And now you can get them at Wal-Mart!
From the moment Trump said that the task was to sell limited-edition tee shirts, I knew that winning and losing hinged on the marketing. Magna, like one team in the bridal salon task last season, did a quick email targeted marketing campaign, and they rocked. No new lesson from the task this week, just an old lesson hammered in: It’s the marketing, stupid.
As Diogenes noted, Tana saved her butt by making Alex’s PM record an issue. This isn’t about Alex not having his PM record handy, this is about that he lost twice as PM and several weeks in a row on Net Worth. Just like when Chris left, the lesson from the firing is that Trump doesn’t like a loser.
Replacement lesson: Watch where you’re driving! Who else saw the getaway taxi cut off – and almost collide with – a dark sedan at the end?
At least Alex recognized in his exit interview what he had learned: How to put together a business in 24 hours, from task to selling. That’s far better than some of the other exit interviews we’ve seen.
The t-shirt designs were ordinary.
If they could have done it without getting permissions or violating trademark, a collage of logos would have been cool – without the company names, just logos. The shirt would have been a conversation piece. “Hey! What’s that, there on your boob? Is that the Pepsi wave or the Nike swoosh?”
But then the artist wouldn’t have had anything to do.
$9.96 at Wal~Mart.
Much better price point…
(Super Star Couture? What happened to “Rock Star?”)
Interesting that they didn’t have the brief post-mortem they usually do after the firing. You know, where George and Carolyn tell Trump what a no-brainer it was, and how he made the only choice he could have made.
What would they have said this week? “What the eff, man? You just said you were going to fire Tana!”
I agree with his decision, by the way. The entire track record card was a good one to play.
And now Alex feels ‘released’. Oh, I’ll just bet you do. Before he goes home to start his brilliant business ideas (like a rolling office to help you clean up your other office?), he gets to go hang with Chris in the loser hotel, right?
Anyone else notice his cab almost got into an accident as it pulled away?