Trump, Gingrich To Create Apprentice-Style Program for Poor School Kids
EmailDonald Trump may not have officially endorsed Newt Gingrich’s presidential bid, but the billionaire businessman gave his hat tip of approval to Gingrich’s plan to put poor schoolchildren to work.
Gingrich, who found himself in hot water last month for saying America’s child labor laws are “truly stupid,” called on Trump to create an “Apprentice”-style program for 10 inner-city New York children to teach them “work ethic.”
“We’re going to be picking 10, young, wonderful children, and we’re going to make them ‘apprenti,’” Trump said after a high-profile meeting with Gingrich on Monday. “We’re going to have a little fun with it, and I think it’s going to be something that is really going to prove results. But it was Newt’s idea, and I think it’s a great idea.”
While it is unclear if the program will run as a reality TV show, like Trump’s NBC show “The Apprentice,” Gingrich said the program is intended to give students “an opportunity to earn money, and get them into a habit of showing up and realizing that hard work gets rewarded.”
Gingrich, the current GOP front-runner, has been a target of fierce attacks from unions and liberal commentators after he said poor school districts should fire unionized janitors and replace them with schoolchildren.
“Young children who are poor ought to learn how to go to work,” he said, defending his stance in an interview with ABC’s Jake Tapper last week. “What I’ve said is, for example, it would be great if inner city schools and poor neighborhood schools actually hired the children to do things. Some of the things they could do is work in the library, work in the front office. Some of them frankly, could be janitorial.”
Gingrich was the latest GOP presidential candidate to meet with Trump in hope of winning his highly-coveted endorsement. Trump said he will not make an endorsement until after December 27, when he plans to moderate a Republican debate hosted by Newsmax.
So far Gingrich is the only candidate who has agreed to attend the Trump-moderated debate. Both Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman have said they will not attend.
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So we have poor children who are trying to go to school to learn, many of them without enough food at home, stress and pressure that is caused by poverty, and we’re going to increase the stress and pressure they’re already feeling and simultaneously distract them from their school work by assigning them after school jobs (in the process getting rid of the adults who depend on janitorial jobs to support their own families which may very well result in more children suffering from the stress of poverty after their parents lose their jobs). And we’re doing this because it gives people a chance to look down on children in poverty, point fingers of blame at them and stigmatize them. It only makes sense if you’re stupid.
Posted by: whatever | December 5, 2011, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm
Normally I consider him a nut but apparently Ron Paul has some kind of common sense too! Where was Donald and Newt years before regarding disadvantaged children? Newt is just trying to clean up his vile statement with Ronald McDonald’s help. Just disgraceful!
Posted by: MyTakeOnThis61 | December 5, 2011, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
I hope nobody applies for this apprenticeship. Newt and Donald are only doing this to satisfy their own ego(s).
Posted by: Jerry | December 5, 2011, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm
Come on. When obami goes on saturday night live, he’s cool. When will the obamatrons ever learn to not be complete hypocrites?
Posted by: jonny | December 5, 2011, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm
oh, gee, they’re going to come to the rescue of those’ poor children’ who have no work ethic, huh? I”d love to tell them bot to suck a horse’s behind. Trump was born to money and had Daddy not startd him in business well beyond where his punk ability would have placed him, and handed him oodles of money to blow, he’d be a little nobody. Gingrich is a blow hard to made money by blah blah blah. Both of them are mental midgets. I was poor growing up and I graduated from engineering school!!!! I would LOVE to see either of these holier than thou bozos even graduate from ONE physics class and gee, how did I EVER do that, fat old while men???? I’m a mere female, and was poor to boot!!!!!! how could I EVER have a work ethic, huh????? The narcissism! How could anyone ever possibly find a room large enough to house both their egos and big ugly heads?
Posted by: GrannyNosBest | December 6, 2011, 12:33 am 12:33 am
. “What I’ve said is, for example, it would be great if inner city schools and poor neighborhood schools actually hired the children to do things. Some of the things they could do is work in the library, work in the front office. Some of them frankly, could be janitorial.”—how about they do their homework, you dumb fat F^(*&*(&(*&(. How about they use SCHOOL to work their way out of the poverty and guess what….SOME DO, fat boy! I DID! and I take HUGE offense that you imagine poor kids are good for nothing other than janitorial work!!!!!!! I graduated in ENGINEERING FAT BOY! you say you have a great intellect????? I would go one on one with you on a science test of ANY subject matter to ANY complexity in a heart beat and WHIP YOU FAT BUTT!!! Wow! THis man is REPULSIVE!
Posted by: GrannyNosBest | December 6, 2011, 12:35 am 12:35 am
LOL! These two guys are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and they’re going to create apprenticeships for TEN kids? Wow, talk about a futile gesture designed solely for the publicity value………..
Posted by: Searambler | December 6, 2011, 9:38 am 9:38 am