Sunday’s episode of MSNBC’s The Weekend devoted a segment to mocking Trump’s naming Mark Burnett as a special envoy to the UK.
Co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders dismissed Burnett as merely the producer of The Apprentice, having none of the international and diplomatic credentials that Trump cited in his nomination message. Steele huffed that all Burnett ever did was negotiate some actor contracts for the show, and belittled the nomination as Trump putting “his boy” in place.
Before bashing Burnett, Steele and Sanders should have taken a few minutes to read the man’s Wikipedia bio.
Where to begin? Burnett is a British native who enlisted in the British Army at age 17, rising to become a Section Commander in the Parachute Regiment, and serving in the Falklands War and Northern Ireland.
He emigrated to the US at age 22, and eventually became one of the…
