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samsingh

(17,601 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:42 AM Mar 2013

I have successfully boycotted Celebrity Apprentice

Growing sick of Donald trump's birther attacks on the President, I decided to ween myself off trump's business entities. I used to watch apprentice in all its incarnations. I have been able to stick to my principles and have not watched the new season.

feels good and feels right.

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I have successfully boycotted Celebrity Apprentice (Original Post) samsingh Mar 2013 OP
Good start. I have successfully boycotted broadcast television. Coyotl Mar 2013 #1
Yes! I banished that predator clown from my TV screen Zen Democrat Mar 2013 #2
I've never seen a single minute of it. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2013 #3
Hey, me too! Skinner Mar 2013 #4
Never seen it either. charmay Mar 2013 #6
Good for you! samsingh Mar 2013 #12
Have never been able to stomach D.Trump. He is one of the most nauseating personalities.... northoftheborder Mar 2013 #5
NBC and Macys promote a racist hatemonger. nt onehandle Mar 2013 #7
There is nothing that guy hates more than being ignored. KurtNYC Mar 2013 #8
How difficult is it to 'boycott' shows like this? Jenoch Mar 2013 #9
i have enjoyed the contestants and so it was difficult for me not to watch this season samsingh Mar 2013 #11
Good. hunter Mar 2013 #10
Hear, hear. martal Apr 2013 #13
Hello ~ martal In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #14

Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)
2. Yes! I banished that predator clown from my TV screen
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:45 AM
Mar 2013

I hope NBC gets the message that Trump is no longer marketable to the sane.

northoftheborder

(7,575 posts)
5. Have never been able to stomach D.Trump. He is one of the most nauseating personalities....
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 12:02 PM
Mar 2013

on the national scene.

 

Jenoch

(7,720 posts)
9. How difficult is it to 'boycott' shows like this?
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 12:29 PM
Mar 2013

I have successfully 'boycotted' Apprentice, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, The Bachelor, Real Housewives of..., and many, many more. (I had to do a search to come up with the names.)

samsingh

(17,601 posts)
11. i have enjoyed the contestants and so it was difficult for me not to watch this season
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 02:00 PM
Mar 2013

last season I stopped watching after trump jr went hunting in Africa and killed a beautiful leopard for 'sport'.

he's a complete jerk.

hunter

(38,337 posts)
10. Good.
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 01:05 PM
Mar 2013

I've successfully boycotted all broadcast and cable television this year. No Superbowl, no Academy Awards, nothing. What are they advertising on television lately? I don't know, and I like it this way.

martal

(1 post)
13. Hear, hear.
Thu Apr 4, 2013, 11:28 AM
Apr 2013

I've never liked Trump himself, but Mark Burnett sure is good at making you feel, however staged and trickily edited his shows might be, that you're eves-dropping on real people ('celebrity' or otherwise) going through many of the same psycho-social trials and tribulations that we enjoy guilt-free in fictional TV shows, movies and novels, and so I used to quite enjoy the Apprentice -- especially before those so called 'celebrities' took it over to revive their sagging careers! -- despite Trump's creepy narcissism, petty spitefulness, and self-important pomposity.

But that was before he revealed how TRULY nasty and crass he is during his mercifully brief run for the Presidency and with this obsessive and transparently racist 'birther' nonsense, given that only a man who would himself try to pull such a stupid and reckless stunt as lying about where you were born in order to become President could imagine someone else doing it! So I decided to never give this odious man another penny in advertising revenue, and therefore wholly and enthusiastically support your boycott , samsingh.

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