I don’t know what it is about the US media’s obsession with self-obsessed flashy business people. Up until the Enron failure (the Republicans previous example of failed business policy) CNN used to broadcast an annoying show that featured big name CEOs and their life story. Somehow that show disappeared when too many of their featured guests started to receive indictments though the problem could have also been related to the sponsor of the show – Anderson Consulting – being connected to some of the troubled businesses such as Enron.

It was an act of mercy when that show was cut but that did not stop the hot run of Donald Trump and The Apprentice. What anyone could ever see in that program was a mystery to me but it was hard to argue against its commercial success. As with the old narcissistic CNN program “leaders”, Trump can’t live up to his own hype.