Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Unbearable Lightness of Carson Daly
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 02.11.2004
Trump turns to Carolyn. "What do you think?" he asks her. Carolyn looks down at her notes calmly, and then she turns to Assorama. "Isaac's last name?" she says. Assorama looks visibly ill. "Miz-a-ra-hee," she says, still not really quite right. But much closer. Carolyn says, "You learned that a little too late." Assorama plays it off, talking about how terribly funny it all is, because people get her name wrong, too, and she hates it, so it's not bad that she flubbed it, it's just amusingly ironic. Carolyn points out that she finds it odd that Assorama would rail at Jessie for not having handled the negotiation professionally when she herself didn't even get the man's name right. And, I would point out, Assorama also did a completely ass job of handling the mistake, in that instead of apologizing, she acted like it wasn't, as Jessie would say, impor-tant. Jessie points out that she and Assorama were actually paired up to do that negotiation, so they share the responsibility for the fact that it didn't go well. "You were the lead, Jessie," Assorama snips. "Please take responsibility for your actions." The unadulterated level of snot in this remark is what I think Trump is talking about for the entire remainder of this conversation. There comes a point where you do not allow people to speak to you in certain ways, and Assorama has just cruised right by that point. "Do you like [Assorama] the way she just talked to you?" Trump asks. "I do like [Assorama]," Jessie insists. Again, Trump is flabbergasted. How can Jessie like someone who talks to her so contemptuously? "She's got a very sharp edge," Trump says. He turns to Heidi and dismissively says, "She destroyed you with a compliment," at which point Heidi jumps in and says, all fake-bravado, "She didn't destroy me." See, Heidi, he's not asking you whether she did. He's telling you that she did, because what he means is not that you were wounded by it, but that she made you look like an ass. Which she did. Trump returns to Jessie and her claim that she likes Assorama, who is treating her like crap. "Either you're not telling the truth, or you're not very bright." Ouch. And...yes. I love it when Donald Trump is the voice of reason. It makes the universe feel kind of slanted.
Anyway, it's time for Assorama to bring people to the final table. Trump tells her flat-out that he thinks she was "very rude" to Jessie and Heidi, just as a side note. Unsurprisingly, these are the people she brings along. Troy and Kwame retire to the suite. The ladies retire to the yellow couch in the lobby.