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Trump Pitched Different Host for Don Jr. ‘Apprentice’ Reboot
April 30, 2026
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Bill Tompkins / Getty ImagesDonald Trump had a successor in mind when he left The Apprentice—and despite Amazon’s reportedly current discussions about rebooting the reality show with Don Jr. as host, it wasn’t the president’s eldest.In the 2024 book, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, Trump revealed that he wanted his daughter, Ivanka, to take over the show.
“I said, ‘The best person to hire would be Ivanka Trump,’” Trump said in the book. “I didn’t press it. But I felt Ivanka would have been by far the best person you could hire.” The network ultimately didn’t go for it, even before they fired Trump in 2015. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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