Donald Trump will keep his executive producer role on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’
Another potential conflict of interest for the President-elect
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump will keep his executive producer credit on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice throughout his presidency.
Trump is the original star of the television series that will kick off its 15th season new host Arnold Schwarzenegger on January 2. In the show’s final credit sequence, Trump’s name will air following the show’s creator Mark Burnett, who distanced himself from the Republican’s presidential campaign last year. Then, he condemned the “hatred, division, and misogyny” of Trump's presidential platform.
Following his derogatory comments toward Mexican immigrants last year, NBC Universal distanced themselves from Trump, saying they would only air Celebrity Apprentice because he was completely removed from the series. Robert Greenblatt, the company’s chairman, also promised that Trump “would never” return to Celebrity Apprentice as long as he’s with the company.
It's currently unclear if Greenblatt is leaving the company.
On Thursday, not only did people criticize yet another conflict of interest for the business mogul turned president-elect, but disavowed NBC, a company who owns a major news network, for having a financial stake in a series with the next president.
MGM typically pays its producers in the range of five-figures but it’s currently unclear how much the president-elect will make next year.