Funniest moment(s) so far in series 4 of The Apprentice came after Trump had fired Markus. It is traditional at this point to thank "Mr Trump" for the opportunity, or maybe to walk out looking shocked. Instead, but true to form, Markus babbled incoherently and in the taxi on his way "home" he couldn’t put together even one coherent sentence in attempting to justify his performance. If anyone doubted why he had to go, here was the proof.
Frankly, I’d have fired all three of them – Clay is another one who whines too much without contributing anything of value, and Adam is just too young and inexperienced to be any use.
Regular viewers will know that every week Donald Trump has to say "…and the losing team will meet me in the boardroom where someone will be fired." Woe betide anyone from the losing team who tries to argue that they only lost narrowly or that they did a good job. Yet the reality is that the margin between victory and defeat is often extremely narrow, often based on entirely subjective factors, and sometimes both. So it can be rather annoying when Trump (or more often Carolyn) treats the losers as if they have done something very wrong, when maybe they have made a small mistake or just been unlucky.
Not always, though, as Excel proved when they completely missed the point of one of the challenges. They staged a fairly spectacular baseball event in a sporting goods store, but amusingly this actually reduced sales. Possibly not quite the ideal result, and the other team achieved a respectable sales increase, so for once Trump and his sidekicks were fully entitled to give the losing team a hard time.
Typically, TVB managed to spoil the fun by running a trailer for the show in which Trump was seen to say "you’re all fired". Hence the only suspense was finding out whether he meant the whole team or just the PM and the one or two people he brought back. Or (as it turned out) something inbetween.
Of course, the cynical amongst us might have suspected that the culling was inevitable given that they started with 18 contestants and the show only runs for 13 weeks. But, hey, Trump likes to look as if he is charge.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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