Those of us who are watching The New Celebrity Apprentice have seen Schwarzenegger deliver a strange, ugly performance week after week.
In the most recent episode, he criticized and almost fired a female contestant for not smiling.
He fired another after telling her she looked "fantastic at your age."
And he delivered multiple monologues about women who have gained weight.
In the episode's first challenge, the boxer Laila Ali was asked to defend her performance and did so in a relatively sedate, businesslike tone.
Schwarzenegger replied: “I don’t see the energy in you, I don’t see the happiness and the joy of doing this."
When Ali reflexively smirked, the host replied, "See the smile you have now? That’s what I like to see, because it represents,
I’m happy to fight here in the struggle, to be creative, and to be part of the team.’”
This is unfortunately congruent with behaviors women in the workplace have to endure.
But it's also close enough to the old Trump Apprentice—one that hinged on questions of style vastly more than performance—to really be jarring.
The problem is that, when Schwarzenegger really let loose, things got even worse.
