This former reality TV persona knows how to hide his assets. Rather than take a large salary on his very first season he formed a “production company” LLC and had it “co-produce” the show with with the actual production company. So he got 5% of the gross budget upfront, 25% of all licensing worldwide, 25% of net profits on an escalating performance based scale, and he retained ownership of name of the show which the network licensed from him for as much as $300,000 per episode. The reported $427 million dollars in earnings is a conservative estimate. And one can never know the true earnings. He also got a $4 million dollar ‘bonus’ for the final season that he did not even host.
Since there isn’t much happening today I am doing sort of an information dump in super easy blind items of info I’ve had laying around.
My initial guess is Trump and The Apprentice?
Now that I’m thinking of it more, your answer makes sense. We already know that he loves to hide his assets, he hates to pay his taxes, and he had Mark Burnett and NBC eating out of his hand while they were doing him a HUGE favor in “rebranding” him.
Plus, it would be so awesome to see TT tag-team with David Fahrenthold (he tracks the Trump money for The Washington Post) and The New York Times reporters who’ve been working on their Trump money project to break even more news on all his shady shit.
I tweeted the blind to him.
It’s a very solid source.
I don’t doubt you at all! Earlier this year, I read Sarah Kendzior’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”. In her book and on her podcast (“Gaslit Nation”), she’s dropped hints on what Mark Burnett’s and NBC’s relationship with the Trumps was really like.
If Trump and Comcast-NBC really hated each other as much as Trump sometimes claims they do, it would have been so easy for the folks who worked on “The Apprentice” shows to turn over documents to NBC News reporters and/or any MSNBC producers. Yet instead, it’s been the NYT, WaPo, and a few other outlets doing all the heavy lifting in unsealing this shit wherever they can find it.
Between all this about “The Apprentice”, everything Ronan Farrow has uncovered on Harvey Weinstein and Matt Lauer, and everything you’ve revealed about how Bravo really works, I’ve come to realize that things were never really what they seemed to be over at Planet Peacock.
And remember, according to both people who worked on the show and Celebrity Apprentices, that there are apparently hours of tapes of Trump saying racist slurs, slurs against women, and just generally flubbing his lines over and over again. Mark Burnett refused to release them.
Mark Burnett’s wife is evangelical if I remember right.
There are ones who think the Rapture is coming, and Trump is God’s tool to bring it about.
The NYT is one of the first entities to get the true scoop on “The China Disease” too.
It’s reporters seem to uncover more Trump coverups almost daily.
He already should be in jail. I hope that is in his near future. I need to start working on a soap on a rope that has a rope that dissolves in water!
Ahh our POS POTUS who paid only $750 in taxes. Too bad he didn’t get stuck in mud when he supposedly “drained the swamp”.
Flaming Hot Chester Cheetah 😂 Fun!
Yes!!!! That pic alone enhanced this blind x10!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
i think you are right. martha stewart did the last season. the cheeto cheetah, the orange one.
Martha had her own version. Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted the last season (of Celebrity Apprentice).
It’s the Cheeto reference for me 😂😂😂
Cheetolini!!!!
“Cheetolin”!! I had not heard that before 🤣 First blind I’ve gotten immediately!
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As I marched today in the Women’s March I thought and prayed to end this nightmare. My guess is DJT the racist rapist xenophobic pos
Thanks for marching, Lisa!
@ Lisaj: Wonderful! I wish I could have marched too!
Great job Lisa. Thanks for representing for us !
Excuse my ignorance, but how was his LLC able to avoid the taxes on their income?
Sorry, stupid here.
I don’t remember all the details that were explained to me but several of the housewives have a loan out corporation. Their checks go to the loan out and they used the company credit card as “expenses” for the loan out corp. So they do not show any income. And the “expenses” on the credit card are considered business expenses. I’m probably explaining it wrong but that is what I recall being the gist of it.
Perfect physical speciem POTUS. He needs to fix his weave & take his meds before he has a Mariah Carey T. R. L / M- TV moment. Why must we have to deal with this one man one TRICK pony ? I will vote for Nene Leakes Sandy & Malia before I vote for that muttering nonsense abyss .Absolutely disgraceful. The U.S. of A will never live this down. Never been more scared about the state of our country with this joke in office. # rant over