Donald Trump Calls Out 'The Apprentice' Film, Calling it "Fake and Classless" | THR News Video
Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the new film about him titled 'The Apprentice,' calling it "fake and classless." The biopic follows Trump's early years as he rose to prominence and became a real estate tycoon in the 1980s. The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and made just $1.6 million in its first weekend.
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00:00Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the new film about him titled The Apprentice,
00:04calling it fake and classless.
00:07The biopic follows Trump's early years as he rose to prominence and became a real estate
00:11tycoon in the 1980s.
00:13The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and made just $1.6 million in its
00:19first weekend.
00:20Trump lashed out against the movie on Monday.
00:22He wrote on his social media platform Truth Social,
00:25A fake and classless movie written about me called The Apprentice, do they even have the
00:30right to use that name without approval, will hopefully bomb.
00:33It's a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before
00:37the 2024 presidential election, to try and hurt the greatest political movement in the
00:42history of our country, make America great again.
00:45In the two-hour feature, Sebastian Stan portrays Trump as he's mentored by Roy Cohn, portrayed
00:50by Jeremy Strong, revealing how Cohn shaped the Trump people know today.
00:54The film also shows Stan's Trump falling in love with his first wife, Ivana, and includes
00:59a controversial scene of Trump raping Ivana, which she claimed during their divorce proceedings
01:04but later recanted.
01:05Trump also wrote,
01:06My former wife, Ivana, was a kind and wonderful person, and I had a great relationship with
01:11her until the day she died.
01:13The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a low-life and talentless hack who has long
01:18been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it.
01:21So sad that human scum, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise,
01:26are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a political movement, which
01:30is far bigger than any of us.
01:31MAGA 2024.
01:32Trump's camp had been pushing to stop the release of the film for months after it premiered
01:37at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:38In May, a cease and desist letter was sent from Trump's attorney to the film's director
01:42and its screenwriter.
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