Amid speculative reports that Donald Trump Jr is being considered by Amazon to lead a reboot of The Apprentice, he’s already received a slightly muted endorsement from the reality show’s former host: his father. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Amazon was considering rebooting The Apprentice, which was hosted by the now US president Donald Trump between 2004 and 2015, for its streaming service Prime Video. The Wall Street Journal cited anonymous sources who said Amazon MGM Studios head Mike Hopkins “began talking about the reboot idea internally early last year, around the time Trump was being sworn in for his second term, according to some of the people familiar with the talks”. Amazon said in a statement that a reboot was “not in active development”, but confirmed to Variety that “preliminary internal discussions about what’s next for The Apprentice” had begun since the media company acquired MGM, and with it The Apprentice franchise, in 2022.…