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‘The Apprentice’ Producers Were Shocked by Trump’s ‘Musty Carpet’

CREATING DONALD TRUMP

“Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn’t,” one producer said.

Donald Trump during Donald Trump Interviews Candidates for NBC's "The Apprentice" Season Five at Trump Tower in New York City.
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