I suspected that Randall would win.
I suspected that Trump would offer both jobs
I did not suspect that Randall would less-than-graciously shut the door on a more-than-qualified friend and team-mate that helped him get where he is.
Business is truly brutal.
He had the job. He should have known it. I would have said, "If there is room in your (Trump's) organization for one more qualifed candidate, I believe it would be in your best interest to also hire Rebecca."
It would have only made himself shine more.
Precisely my take. It made everyone look bad except for Rebecca. The reactions I saw on another blog was mostly that Randal was behaving like a jerk or that it was wrong of Trump to immediately steal his thunder - some saying it was racist of Trump to force Randal to "share" the moment with the white runner-up since he didn't make Bill (the white winner) do that for Kwame (the black runner-up) in Season 1.
I also feel Rebecca wasn't really qualified. She says the right things but gets the wrong results. She lost two of her three tasks as project manager by making bad decisions and really lost the final task by downplaying the charity. She is young, charming and tenacious and I do think Trump wants to hire her. The "big surprise" alluded to in the show's previews was obvious that Trump would offer jobs to both. Asking Randal was an awkward thing to do but I'm sure Trump expected Randal to just praise Rebecca and make him look smart for hiring the both of them. Instead Randal blew up the whole plan in Trump's face. He was left on live TV to either diss the advice of his new apprentice or make it look like Randal "fired" Rebecca instead of him. This was truly not the outcome everyone had led up to all night.
Randall really messed up when he said "This isn't the aprenti (not a word in the english vocabulary), but the Aprentice."
Randal doesn't understand that aprentice is also plural...
Did you notice that the show ended 5 minutes early, Trump did not expect Randal to do what he did.