Donald Trump has slammed the new movie biopic about his youth working in New York real estate during the 1970s and 1980s.
Sebastain Stan stars as young Trump in The Apprentice as he’s mentored by lawyer Roy Cohn, who is played by Succession’s Jeremy Strong.
The controversial new film, which Clint Eastwood turned down, has received a strong reaction from the former president himself on Truth Social.
Trump lambasted: “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 a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country, ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’”
No doubt he will be please to hear that The Apprentice has flopped at the US box office, opening in 10th place with just $1.6 million in ticket sales.
Trump added: “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!”
The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi, has since responded to Trump’s reaction on social media.
Abbasi wrote on X: “Thanks for getting back to us, Donald Trump. I am available to talk further if you want. Today is a tight day with a lot of press for ‘The Apprentice,’ but I might be able to give you a call tomorrow.”
The Apprentice hits UK cinemas on October 18, 2024.