Although he had a long-standing relationship with NBC, “The Apprentice” star ultimately discovered {that a} shared previous with the community’s higher-ups did not essentially imply that they’d deal with him properly going ahead. In Ramin Setoodeh’s guide, Trump blames a few of his later media protection in his transient and futile dance to get a large increase on NBCUniversal head on the time, Jeff Zucker.
Behind the scenes, Zucker and Trump have been buddies for a few years, and based on Trump, Zucker solely obtained his later CNN president gig when he put out a great phrase for him. Regardless of Zucker denying Trump’s aspirations for $6 million per “The Apprentice” episode, their relationship did not bitter till Trump’s relationship with CNN did. The 2 have a long-standing troublesome historical past, from the large quantity of consideration Zucker’s CNN gave Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign to the later deep animosity Trump felt towards CNN’s in depth protection of varied scandals and incidents involving him. “He is human scum,” Trump fired off at his former buddy within the guide.