Trump's 'Apprentice' hire for UK special envoy role shrouded in mystery

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

86% : In 1995, President Bill Clinton named Senator George Mitchell to be his Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, and Mitchell spent the next 6 years helping to broker peace in the province.
71% : Trump will be hoping Burnett enjoys similar success building trade relationships between the US and Britain, at the very moment Lord Peter Mandelson becomes the UK's new Ambassador to the United States with a very similar portfolio.
52% : Trump revealed the appointment of a "Special Envoy to the United Kingdom" in the form of Mark Burnett, the British-born creator of The Apprentice, the NBC reality show that debuted in 2004 and would eventually lay the groundwork to catapult Trump into the White House.
34% : It is unclear why Trump believes a Special Envoy needs to be posted to London.
34% : There is no clarity on how the two men will work together, given that it would generally fall to the Ambassador to carry out the very roles that Trump is now assigning to his former network television colleague.
31% : In 2016, Burnett broke with Trump, saying "I reject the hatred, division and misogyny that has been a very unfortunate part of his campaign".
17% : But he also declined to release video footage from The Apprentice archives that former members of the programme's crew suggested would reveal Trump acting in a vulgar and offensive manner.

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