Profile: Who is Donald Trump? (Part 1… The Brand)
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Americast discovers how Donald Trump's business success came from creating a franchise out of his most valuable commodity: himself.
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HOST: * Sarah Smith, North America Editor
GUESTS: * Marc Fisher, senior editor at the Washington Post and co-author of the biography ‘Trump Revealed’ * Bill Pruitt, former Apprentice producer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, you are listening to an AmeriCast episode, which is one of a series of profiles we're doing about the presidential and vice presidential candidates in this year's American election. |
| 0:15.1 | And today we're focusing on Donald Trump. |
| 0:17.4 | This is just part one. |
| 0:18.3 | We're going to do several different episodes about him. |
| 0:21.0 | Today we'll be looking at Trump the brand. His professional rise as a businessman, as a celebrity, |
| 0:27.6 | and the way in which those two are intertwined. Was this a business empire he built or a great |
| 0:31.9 | marketing exercise that made him look like he was a successful businessman? We're going to dig |
| 0:36.5 | into that. Welcome to |
| 0:37.9 | AmeriCast, our Donald Trump profile, part one. |
| 0:43.6 | AmeriCast. Americaast from BBC News. Well, I think if they win, I should get all the credit, |
| 0:49.3 | and if they lose, I should not be blamed at all. I didn't have sex with a poor star. |
| 0:53.5 | We're going to build the war. We have no choice. We have no choice. It's not racist at all, no. Not at all. It comes from China. There was blood pouring everywhere, and yet I had God on my side. There's no crime. I have a crooked judge. He's a totally conflicted judge. I'm not going to give you a question. You are fake news. |
| 1:12.6 | I'm sorry. You're fired. Get out of here. |
| 1:15.6 | Hello, it's Sarah here in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:24.6 | And for this episode, I'm going to be joined by two guests who |
| 1:28.3 | really know a lot about how Donald Trump built up his name in the world of celebrity and in business before he went into politics. Both of them have spent a huge amount of time with Donald Trump and know him well. We've got Bill Pruitt. He is a former producer on The Apprentice, one of four producers who was involved in the first two seasons. |
| 1:25.4 | He had to sign an expansive non-disclosure agreement, |
| 1:28.0 | which prohibited him from former producer on The Apprentice, one of four producers who was involved in the first two seasons. |
| 1:53.2 | He had to sign an expansive non-disclosure agreement, which prohibited him from talking about his time working with Trump, but that NDA expired earlier this year. |
| 1:56.3 | So we are able to finally get some of the secrets from behind the scenes. |
| 2:01.3 | And also with us is Mark Fisher, a senior editor at The Washington Post, and he is the co-author of the biography Trump Revealed, which involved over 20 hours of interviews with Donald Trump |
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