Episode 4
- Task 4
- Airdate: March 22, 2009
- Task sponsor: ACN Inc.
- Task scope: Both teams must produce a live event launching ACN's new Iris 3000 Videophone.
- Athena project manager: Claudia Jordan
- KOTU project manager: Brian McKnight
- Judges: Donald Trump; Ivanka Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.
- Winning team: KOTU
- Reasons for win: The audience at the presentations submitted comment cards regarding the presentations and selected their favorite. Despite comments regarding their lack of focus on the product, KOTU received 85% of the votes.
- Losing team: Athena
- Reasons for loss: Athena's presentation only received 15% of the audience's votes. Despite praise for the comedic talents of Joan Rivers, the rest of the content of the presentation was judged to be inferior and the vignettes were extremely "cheesy" according to Donald Trump.
- Sent to boardroom: Claudia Jordan, Melissa Rivers, Khloé Kardashian
- Fired: Claudia Jordan - for producing an uninteresting presentation, losing the respect of the entire team, and for letting her emotions tie into her decision to bring in Melissa Rivers.
- Notes:
- Brian McKnight won $20,000 for his charity.
- Joan Rivers again missed the early part of the task due to a charity event, and originally she was going to miss the entire task because of a late flight back to New York City. However, Natalie Gulbis researched an earlier flight and Joan managed to perform for Athena.
- Claudia Jordan said that Melissa Rivers was very obnoxious and was her biggest problem. Despite that, the rest of the team said that Melissa did an outstanding job and even Annie Duke said if they won, she would have given all the credit to Melissa and Joan Rivers. Claudia still went on to say how bossy she was and how she cannot take criticism which infuriated Joan Rivers. Claudia was then getting verbally assaulted by Joan and Melissa, and the rest of the team believed that Claudia should get fired.
- While Claudia actually said that Khloé Kardashian should be fired due to her lack of contribution to the task, she spent most of the boardroom attacking Melissa instead, which blew up in her face when Trump realised she had brought Melissa back for personal reasons. Only then did Claudia attempt to make a case for Khloé to be fired, but Melissa came to her defense and blamed Claudia for not properly delegating.
- This was the first time KOTU won a task.
- After Clint Black won the right to have KOTU take the second presentation slot, Dennis Rodman suddenly sparked a massive argument with him, apparently taking offense at the fact that Clint had won his team's presentation slot via a coin flip (even though the coin flip idea was actually from Annie Duke) before storming out and not returning until several hours later. After that, Brian McKnight barred Dennis from taking any further part in the task, even turning down an offer to secure audiovisual equipment for the presentation.
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