Donald Trump discussed continuing doing The Apprentice from the White House

And you thought Obama doing BuzzFeed videos was weird

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With one eye always on his personal brand, Donald Trump once mulled over making another season of The Apprentice from within the White House while president, it has emerged.

The bizarre tidbit is part of a Vanity Fair feature looking at whether Trump’s endgame is his own TV network a la Fox News, and recounts a conversation he had with NBCUniversal chief executive Steve Burke when he was considering running for president in 2011.

“If you don’t want me to do this, then I need you to ask me,” Trump told the executive, according to a source VF says was ‘familiar with the conversation’, with Burke ultimately conceding to Trump that indeed he did not want his star to attempt a bid for the presidency.

Let’s put aside the bizarre notion that maintaining hosting duties on a weary reality show is more important than running for President of the United States of America for a second and plough on.

According to VF:

‘Another person with knowledge of the situation noted that the two men had a subsequent conversation in which they broached a compromise, albeit one that seems more like a Trumpian fever dream than a network-TV reality. It outlined, presumably fantastically, that Trump should run for president; and on the off chance that he won, he would continue to star in The Apprentice from within the White House. (Burke did not respond to a request for comment. Hope Hicks [Trump’s spokesperson] did not respond to my request for comment on this particular matter and instead noted that Trump is focused on making America great again.)’

It might be nigh on impossible to find a silver lining to a potential Trump presidency, but watching Apprentice losers sit dejected in the White House canteen might be it.