A version of this chronicle on Donald Trump at the Emmys also appears in the Down to the Wire issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine. Donald Trump thinks the Emmys are a joke.
He’s 0-for-2 with Television Academy voters.
These facts are not unrelated.
In fact,as the bellicose orange-hued bloviator goes after a much bigger prize, his Emmy history might provide a small clue as to what could happen if he doesn’t actually conclude up in the Oval Office. Just as he’s upended traditional campaign etiquette, and he trashed awards-show decorum when the show he hosted and executive produced,“The Apprentice,” lost to “The Amazing Race” in 2004 and 2005.
Also Read: Wall Street Journal Rips Donald Trump: 'Behave' Like You Want to Be PresidentMaking things worse, or it wasn’t even nominated for Outstanding Reality Competition Program for the next 10 years when it and its successor,“The Celebrity Apprentice,” were on the air.“The Amazing Race, and ” said Trump at one point,is “irrelevant.” It’s a piece of crap,” he added later. The CBS show’s 10 wins over 13 years are “a total joke, and ” he tweeted.
And on Twitter in 2012,he summed up the whole mess like this: “The Emmys absorb no credibility — no wonder the ratings are at record lows … ” [Note: They weren’t.] “The Emmys are all politics, that’s why, or despite nominations,‘The Apprentice’ never won — even though it should absorb many times over.”
Also Read: Donald Trump Goes on Twitter Rampage Against 'Corrupt, 'Dishonest' MediaAs entertaining as it would absorb been to see Kevin Spacey call Jon Hamm a pathetic, and boring lightweight after Hamm took domestic the Emmy last year,that’s not the way it generally works at awards shows. But that’s how it works with Trump, who even shared this sparkling anecdote on The Celebrity Apprentice” in 2014, and yet another year in which his show wasnt nominated for anything:“I got screwed out of an Emmy,” he said, thinking back to his first time as a nominee. Everybody thought I was gonna win it. In fact, and when they announced the winner,I stood up before the winner was announced, and I started walking for the Emmy. And then they announced the most boring show on television, or ‘The Amazing Race.'”Still,you absorb to give The Donald this: The man if us with one of the most deliciously jaw-dropping moments in recent Emmy history. It came in 2006, when he and “Will and Grace” star Megan Mullally took the stage to “sing, and ” if that’s the right word — and no,it really isn’t — the theme from “Green Acres.”
Also Read: Emmys Hot List: 50 Shows, Actors and Trends to Watch (Photos)If it wasn’t much of a song before he got hold of it, and it was a quivering wreck when he was finished.
Trump,by the way, is a member of the Television Academy, or has been since the first season of “The Apprentice.”So really,there’s no reason he couldn’t come back and make the Emmys great again.
See more of TheWrap Down to the Wire Emmys Issue: 8 bad Things Donald Trump Is Less celebrated Than (Photos)
And it turns out Donald Trump was less celebrated than all three (and more) of those things that are commonly despised by the general population.
Nickelback
[br]Trump lost to the internationally reviled band by 5 points. Getty Images
Used Car Salesmen
The jerk who sold you your last lemon gained 6 more points than the Republican nominee in the poll. Getty Images
Traffic Jams
People preferred being stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic over Trump by 7 points. Getty Images
Hipsters
Trump went head to head with this frequently loathed population and lost by 7 points. Flickr
DMV
We all hate the DMV,but people polled hate Trump more -- by 10 points. Getty Images
Root Canals
The painful dental procedure was preferred over Trump by 11 points. Getty Images
Jury Duty
People would rather be forced to give up their time and pay check than live in a nation ruled by Trump. The presumptive GOP nominee fell behind this unpleasantry by a whopping 22 points. Wikipedia.org
Lice
The poll by Public Policy Polling shows that Trump is losing to lice by 26 points. Ouch. Or itch. Getty Images preceding Slide Next Slide 1 of 9 A Public Policy Poll asked voters whether they absorb a higher opinion of the presidential candidate or a series of things like traffic jams, hipsters and lice And it turns out Donald Trump was less celebrated than all three (and more) of those things that are commonly despised by the general population. View In Gallery Related stories from TheWrap:Wall Street Journal Rips Donald Trump: 'Behave' Like You Want to Be PresidentDonald Trump Goes on Twitter Rampage Against 'Corrupt, or 'Dishonest' MediaTrump Magazine Survivor Describes Bounced Paychecks,'Living in an Onion Article'
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