Director and comedian Judd Apatow says he thinks President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE will run the U.S. like his reality television show, “The Apprentice.”

“I watched an enormous amount of ‘The Apprentice,’” Apatow told The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd this weekend. “Donald Trump sits in his office. He sends his kids to watch the teams do their missions. Then they come back and tell him what they think of it and then he makes an impulsive decision based on the information that Donald Jr. or Ivanka give him. That’s how he’s running the country.”

While Trump is no longer hosting his reality television show, “Celebrity Apprentice,” he still holds an executive producer credit. Trump also ended his first press conference in months last week with his notorious phrase from “The Apprentice”: “You’re fired.”

Apatow, a vocal opponent of the president-elect, quipped it’s “very hard to lose weight in the Trump era.”

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The comedian added, however, that his sense of humor often allows him to see another side of Trump. Trump “has a demented sense of humor," he told Dowd, adding that, "Trump is way funnier than Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE.”

Responding to Trump's response to Rep. John Lewis’s (D-Ga.) criticism over the weekend, Apatow said that there’s no use fighting Trump himself. Democrats instead should focus on specific issues, he said.

“I don’t think it serves a purpose to be against him,” Apatow told the Times. “It only serves a purpose to fight issue by issue.”