"The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi isn't sweating Donald Trump's harsh criticism of his flick ... in fact, he's encouraging 45 to keep posting about the biopic.
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00:00Were you shocked to see Donald Trump's review this morning when you woke up from, you know,
00:09opening weekend of the movie?
00:10I mean, I'm back in London and I'm jet-lagged and I totally understand it when you're like,
00:16you know, sitting and, you know, with your phone in your hand, 1 a.m. and, you know,
00:20you get mad and everything.
00:23But for him, you know, he has a lot to do.
00:25I just wish for him to sleep better and, you know, focus better on his job, you know.
00:29But thanks to him, I think, you know, we get better publicity and we get more people
00:36to come and watch it now.
00:37So, you know, I'm grateful.
00:39Do you plan on trying to talk to the president and actually trying to get him to sit down
00:43and watch the film?
00:44I assume he hasn't watched it and sort of just fired up the tweet without seeing it.
00:49I mean, look, you know, joke aside, as a courtesy, you know, this is a movie about a real person.
00:54And as a courtesy, I, you know, extend invitation to Mr. Trump and his family, you know, to
01:00show the movie and I'm available, you know, just today and tomorrow are really full days
01:04press-wise.
01:05But, you know, I can make myself available and, you know, I also think that he is curious,
01:12you know, I would be curious too, you know, and it would be fun for him, it would be fun
01:16for me.
01:17We can sit together, you know.
01:18Why not?
01:19I encourage Mr. Trump to keep tweeting about the movie and how much he hates the movie
01:23because I think that, you know, I can't say how much I appreciate it, you know.
01:28I truly do.
01:29You can't buy that kind of advertising, right?
01:32I mean, he's got a huge audience.
01:33Well, I tried, you know.
01:34Yeah.
01:35Yeah, right.