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[–] Old_Jimmy_Twodicks@sh.itjust.works 153 points 9 months ago (3 children)

My favorite part of this entire article is the author referring to Trump as a "former game show host."

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I like the one calling him Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny

[–] ech@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

People keep calling him a "game show host" and I feel like I'm missing something. Are people calling the apprentice a "game show"? Thatt was reality TV imo, not a game show.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought more game show than reality, like survivor. Apparently the genre is "reality competition"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But no one calls survivor a “game show”

Yes I know it’s a game. But that genre of tv is entirely different. And that should be apparent to anyone who has watched tv once in the last 30 years.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Wikipedia calls it a "reality game show" for non Americans.

Your comment was unnecessarily rude and arrogant.

[–] strawberrysocial@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

It's a game show. The contestants are all competing for a prize. Why is the term game show so offensive to you haha

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can't the Venn diagram overlap?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The two genres? Sure. That show? No. In no way does that show resemble a game show to me.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll take your word for it because I never watched a single episode. I just had it in my head that it was a last man standing kind of thing where he fired one person at a time until there was one "winner," but maybe that's way off.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah it was just corporate Survivor

Oh. Are you a TV genre authority?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Game show is more accurate, given he's not a real businessman.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Reality tv isn't particularly "real".

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I love that description of him. I've been calling him that since he threw his hat in the ring back in 2015. I forget who I first heard/read it from, but it's one of the nicer accurate descriptions of Rapey McTinyD.