“You’re fired!” was Donald Trump’s famous catchphrase on more than a dozen seasons of “The Apprentice.”
Trump criticized traits like impulsivity when booting contestants from the boardroom. In one episode, he fired a team member for “an impulsive decision — a stupid, impulsive, life-threatening decision that frankly, if you were running a company and made that kind of decision, you’d destroy that company instantaneously,” according to Trump.
Yet many of President Trump’s tweets have been described as “impulsive”…
At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is “no reason to be alarmed!”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2017
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Interruptions were also grounds for dismissal by The Donald.
“I’m getting ready to almost fire this guy for being a horrible leader and you interrupt me,” said Trump in another show. “Ya know what, you’re fired.”
Yet President Trump routinely cuts people off.
In a February press conference, Trump interrupted a reporter who asked, “On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good example of the smooth running of government and —?” President Trump cut him off, saying, “Yeah I do. Wait, wait, wait. I know who you are. Just wait.”
So given his reality show reasoning … would then-TV boss Donald Trump have already pushed himself out of the Oval Office?
Doubtful … when asked whether the White House has chosen to be combative, President Trump recently told Time magazine, “the only way you survive is to be combative.”
