After a recording was released of Donald Trump talking to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush about sexually assaulting women, many people who opposed such remarks and were appalled that they didn’t further affect his chances at the presidency. Shortly after, Trump’s many detractors realized that if comments like that were caught on tape when Trump knew he was miked up, then there was surely the possibility that many similar things (or worse) could be found on other existing recordings. And where would such tapes come from other than the behind the scenes records of Trump’s own reality show, The Apprentice?
Unfortunately, producer of the show Mark Burnett refused to admit whether there was any compromising information about Trump on the tapes that he had in his possession and declined to release any of them to the public or a reliable news source. Many people took this as Burnett not only protecting his business interests and relationships, but purposefully hiding incriminating evidence of Trump’s terrible behavior so as not to tank his chances of occupying the White House. He insisted it was due to legal restrictions and that he did not actually have permission to release anything on his own.
Which is how he came to be soundly booed by a room of celebrities and industry members during Saturday night’s PGA Awards ceremony. Reports from within the room tell of not only booing but hissing and shouts of “where are the tapes!?” from attendees as well.
Apprentice Producer Mark Burnett greeted with hissing and boos at Producers Guild Awards tonight. Some said "where are the tapes?"
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 29, 2017
"Where are the tapes?" and hissing greeted @MarkBurnettTV when he won Producers Guild award for "The Voice" just now.
— Frank Rich (@frankrichny) January 29, 2017
At Producers' Guild Awards. @MarkBurnettTV just got hissed & booed for not releasing the Trump tapes. @TVMoJoe @franklinavenue
— Daisy Gardner (@daisykpgardner) January 29, 2017
Mark Burnett is booed accepting #PGAwards for The Voice https://t.co/2Xy9YAPZN5
— jen yamato (@jenyamato) January 29, 2017
Do I sense an air of hostility in the room as Mark Burnett accepts an award for The Voice? Yep. Boos, even. #PGAawards
— Steve Pond (@stevepond) January 29, 2017
Burnett wasn’t even accepting an award for the show that made Trump famous, as until the recent season which just premiered it had been off the air far too long to be eligible. But Burnett is also behind many other successful reality shows such as The Voice and Shark Tank, the former being what this particular award was for, and it doesn’t look like the producer will be able to peacefully accept a trophy in the near future.
(via Buzzfeed/Vanity Fair)
