‘Celebrity Apprentice’: Just How ‘Yuge’ Were Those TV Ratings Anyway?

Tiny hands, maybe — but Donald Trump leaves some pretty big shoes to fill

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Something looks different about this season of “Celebrity Apprentice” — we just can’t quite put our finger on it. Oh right, the former boardroom boss is soon to be the frigging president of the United States.

Enter Arnold Schwarzenegger as boss, because, well, why not? Donald Trump may have tiny hands, but he leaves behind some pretty big shoes to fill, TV ratings-wise.

Of course, some recent seasons of the NBC franchise didn’t quite deliver as “big league” as the POTUS-elect would like you to remember. Still, the show was always a solid performer, if not always “yuge.”

The chart below shows how each season of “The Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice” fared in Nielsen numbers.

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