Judd Apatow watched an “enormous amount of ‘The Apprentice’” and thinks that’s exactly how Donald Trump is going to run the country once he becomes president.
“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,” he said in an interview with the New York Times. “That’s how he’s running the country.”
The “Trainwreck” director said he wasn’t surprised by the election results, claiming that funniest candidate always wins.
“I said it as a joke, but I think there’s something to it,” he said. “Reagan was funny. Bill Clinton was funny. Bush was funnier than Gore. Obama was funnier than probably anybody who’s ever run for office.”
Apatow added that Trump “has a demented sense of humor” and “is way funnier than Hillary Clinton.”
The producer also took on a serious note, adding that “clearly Hillary Clinton made a few enormous mistakes. One of those mistakes, to me, was that you can’t get paid that much for speeches and go back into politics. That has to be your victory lap — you cash in, you do the speeches and you’re done.”
During the interview, Apatow also admitted to stress eating and that it’s “very hard to lose weight in the Trump era.”
“I’m trying so hard to have it not turn into 30 pounds,” he said. “I think it tests our ability to not want to numb out. There’s so many things that are hard to hear every day that you do want to have some Oreos. Like people say, what do you invest in during the Trump era? I feel like, Hostess Cakes. Most of us are just scared and eating ice cream.”