(JNS) If, like me, reality shows don’t interest you, then President Donald Trump’s hit television show “The Apprentice” and its “Celebrity” spinoff came and went without notice. But it looks like we’re being given another chance to watch something very much like the series, which ran from 2004 to 2017, and whose popularity helped boost Trump’s presidential ambitions.
US Vice President JD Vance, 41, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, 55, appear to be pitted against each other while pursuing competing approaches to solving the administration’s Middle East dilemma. Their efforts have taken on the appearance of the shows, where contestants competed against each other for Trump’s favor.
High stakes
But the stakes involved in the foreign-policy version of “The Apprentice” are a lot higher than the $250,000 per annum job in the Trump organization that went to the winners of the TV show. They involve not only the prospects for war and peace in the Middle East, but are also inextricably tied up with the chances...
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