“The Apprentice” has lasted another week without multimillion dollar entrepreneur Donald Trump firing her from the show, which means she is still in the running to score a job with Trump Industries.
Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy, 29, is competing for a job with Trump Industries on season 10 of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” featuring Trump. The show, which began with 16 contestants, pits a women’s team against a men’s team each week.
Last week’s task was for both teams to create and record a gorilla marketing stunt that would go viral on the Internet for Popcorn Indiana, a popcorn company. The team judged to have made the best video would be safe from any firings, while the losing team would have one team member fired.
Saeidi-Azcuy was the project manager for the women’s team in this episode, while Clint was the project manager for the men’s team.
The women’s team created a video of people working out at a gym while simultaneously eating popcorn, while the men’s video documented people violently pouring popcorn on the heads of people passing by.
“I will stop at nothing to win…. I‘m going to be a very strong project manager,” Saeidi-Azcuy said, when she was selected to be the team’s project manager.
Donald Trump Jr, the son of the CEO of the Trump Industries, agreed Saeidi-Azcuy was doing a great job in her role as project manager. “Mahsa seems to be doing a great job,” Donald Jr. said. “I mean, she really looks like what I would imagine a director to be doing.”
Unfortunately for Saeidi-Azcuy and her team, however, the women’s team lost to the men’s team. When the two teams were called into Trump’s boardroom, where each week one contestant is fired, Trump watched the two videos and announced that the men’s team had won.
But the Iranian-American contestant was not a fan of the men’s video. “Not impressed, Mr. Trump. I thought it was disrespectful to the product.… It was the guys throwing popcorn at each other,” Saeidi-Azcuy said.
Saeidi-Azcuy then called out Tyana as the weakest member of the group, said she didn’t contribute to the team and told Trump that he should fire her from the show.
“Mahsa, if you did it all by yourself and you lost, why shouldn’t I fire you?” Trump asked.
“Because, Mr. Trump, as a leader you have to delegate people to come assist you,” Saeidi-Azcuy said.
Trump then asked Brandi, one of the members of the women’s team, how she felt Saeidi-Azcuy did as a project manager.
“I certainly think that Mahsa did a great job,” Brandi said.
When the discussions were over, Trump asked Mahsa to chose two people to join her in the boardroom, one of which would be fired. Mahsa chose Tyana and Liza to join her in the boardroom.
Once in the boardroom, Ivanka, Trump’s daughter, said, “Mahsa, you‘re a very strong person and you have very, very strong opinions about all of the other project managers. You‘re a project manager and you lost.”
Saeidi-Azcuy responded, “I‘m tremendously disappointed in myself.”
But then the conversation took a new tone when Liza, instead of choosing Saeidi-Azcuy to be fired, chose Tyana to be fired. Trump then asked Liza if she was too scared to call out Saeidi-Azcuy because of her strong personality and character.
“I’m tough,” Mahsa said, seemingly agreeing with Trump.
But Trump quickly put Saeidi-Azcuy in her place. “Don‘t say you‘re tough. You know what the worst thing is? People who say they‘re tough. Because usually people who say they‘re tough are the least tough. So don‘t say you‘re tough,” Trump said.
In the end, however, Trump fired Tyana. The Iranian-born contestant will be safe until next week, when again, another contestant will be fired. The show, created by Mark Burnett airs Thursday nights at 9/8 central.
