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What The Apprentice Might Predict About a Trump Presidency

We've already seen Donald Trump as the leader of a reality show. What does his boardroom behavior say about how he'd function as President?

Here is a fact, stripped of all emotion: there is a nonzero chance that Donald J. Trump will be the next President of the United States. He's never held elected public office, so there's no obvious track record of how a Trump Administration might function, but there are many, many seasons of *The Apprentice *that offer glimpses into his decision-making and war-room demeanor. Throughout the series (which never won an Emmy, because The Amazing Race is a far superior series the system is rigged), Trump served as an imperious and sometimes impulsive reprimander-in-chief, pleading and interrupting his way through the show's end-of-episode boardroom scenes. In fact, those scenes give us a surprisingly clear look at a would-be president's decision-making process—so let's turn on the Extrapolatobot 7000 and look ahead to what those scenes tell us about a possible Trump presidency.

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