Former President Donald Trump isn’t any fan of The Apprentice, and he’s letting the world learn about it.
The biopic follows Trump’s early years as he turned the true property tycoon merely referred to as “The Donald” as he rose to prominence within the Eighties. The function movie opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and pulled in an anemic $1.6 million in its first weekend. Trump lashed out towards the movie on Monday after the numbers got here in, displaying The Apprentice touchdown in tenth place total for the weekend.
“A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully “bomb.” It’s an inexpensive, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out proper earlier than the 2024 Presidential Election, to attempt and harm the Best Political Motion within the Historical past of our Nation,” Trump wrote in a submit on Fact Social, the social media platform he launched and owns.
“MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!,” the GOP hopeful interjected, then added of the brand new movie, “My former wife, Ivana, was a kind and wonderful person, and I had a great relationship with her until the day she died. The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it. So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us. MAGA2024!”
Within the two-hour function, Sebastian Stan (of the Captain America franchise) portrays Trump as he’s mentored by Roy Cohn, portrayed by Jeremy Robust (Succession), revealing how Cohn formed the Trump individuals know right now. The movie additionally reveals Stan’s Trump falling in love with first spouse Ivana (Maria Bakalova) and features a controversial scene of Trump raping Ivana, which she claimed throughout their divorce proceedings however later recanted.
Trump’s camp had been pushing to cease the movie for months after it premiered on the Cannes Movie Pageant. In Might, a cease-and-desist letter was despatched from Trump’s lawyer to The Apprentice director, Ali Abbasi and its screenwriter Gabriel Sherman.
