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Jiang treats The Apprentice as the media vehicle that nationalized Trump's leader-image and helped prepare his political authority.
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The Apprentice
The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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Jiang says Trump's public image was curated over decades and that The Apprentice was a major mechanism that fixed him in the American mind as a strong leader.
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"...in order to reach the point where he is. Look at The Apprentice, right? What really propelled him on the national stage is The..."
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"...you have yet to hear, it is taught to the entered apprentice, the fellow craft, and the master. And it is taught in every..."
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"...that these... teach and contain is taught and contained for enter apprentice, knight and prince alike by the compass and the square. For the..."
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"...tv star he had um you know a hit show called apprentice on nbc for over a decade and it was really the number..."
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"...He had the most successful TV show. For the longest time, The Apprentice. So he's very good at creating TV ratings. At the same..."
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"...you know, he, he spent too much time doing reality TV, The Apprentice. And so he thinks that, you know, if I can just..."
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"...money and everyone's like no i can't do it then this apprentice and Jacob Frank is like, I'm an apprentice, I don't know anything...."
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"...American military to be more loyal to Trump. Remember during in The Apprentice, he was there for like over 10 years but Trump would..."
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"...years, he had the most popular television show on TV called The Apprentice, where he pretended to be this savvy genius of a business..."
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"...Okay. For a long time, he had his own TV show, The Apprentice, for a long time. So he understands TV show plotting. He..."
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"...star, right? This like like he came to prominence because of The Apprentice. And you can argue even before The Apprentice, when he was..."
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"so uh i'm not sure if you've seen trump's show the apprentice remember how at the end of the show uh like like at..."
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