DONALD TRUMPED

When I first went to Trump Towers in New York, I was amazed at the opulence. At the sheer conspicuous consumption. When I saw a Trump casino in Atlantic City, I chose not to go in. When the city of Scottsdale voted thumbs down on a huge Trump building, I was thankful.

But I still watched The Apprentice on tv. In fact, I thought after the first two years, it should have been required viewing for business majors. That all changed with The Celebrity Apprentice last season.

This season was worse. My last. And here's why. I'd like to write Joan and Melissa Rivers. But it was more than those two spoiled brats. And mother Joan was selected as the celebrity apprentice. What a joke!

All season long, most of the actors were filthy in their language. It's not like they had never been in front of a camera. They just couldn't control their vulgarity. Beeps were numerous. It was worse than disgusting. Runner up Annie Duke was so obscene in one of the last shows that I won't even go there. But she certainly thought that gutter humor was funny.

Trump lost it when last season a contestant, Androsia and Pierce fought on the air. So this year, he thought a la Jerry Springer that that's what the audience wanted, so he kept an inept mother/daughter duo in the running way too long. Melissa's exit was one for the annals. Of poor taste. But if that's what the audience wants.

I could go on about the unjust firings, one for a DUI conviction totally unrelated to the task, but I'd rather stop. Just like I'll stop watching anything associated with The Donald.

Not until he grows up.