Former President Donald Trump missed out on Truth Social for the new movie, The Apprentice, which premiered Friday and shows him as a young man.
The film stars Sebastian Stan and includes controversial scenes, including one in which Trump sexually assaults his then-wife, Ivana Trump, and another in which she undergoes liposuction and surgery to cover a growing bald spot on her back. of his head.
Trump called the film “FAKE” and “CLASSLESS” on Truth Social overnight Monday, adding that “hopefully it’s going to be a bomb.”
“It is a cheap, defamatory and politically discursive hatchet, launched just before the 2024 presidential election, to try to damage the largest political movement in the history of our country,” Trump said.
He added that his late wife Ivana “was a kind and wonderful person, and I had a great relationship with her until the day she died.”
The new film, The Apprentice, stars actor Sebastian Stan, who plays a young Donald Trump. Former President Donald Trump launched a tirade about the film on Monday.
‘“The author of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a low-life, talentless bully who has long been widely discredited, knew it, but chose to ignore it,” Trump continued.
“It is very sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this enterprise that we hope to fail, can say and do whatever they want to harm a political movement, which is much bigger than any of us,” Trump also offered. ‘MAGA2024!’
Before writing the film, his first feature, Sherman wrote for Vanity Fair and New York magazine and authored the Roger Ailes biography, The Loudest Voice in the Room.
After adapting that book for a Showtime limited series starring Russell Crowe, Sherman began writing the film that would become The Apprentice.
He said he reported the script in detail.
“I read everything I could about Donald Trump, Roy Cohn and New York City in the 1970s and 1980s,” Sherman said in a recent interview. with the hollywood reporter. ‘And then I went out to interview people who knew Donald and Roy during those years and asked them for more anecdotes. So it was a mix of historical research and my own interviews.’
The rape scene is based on a divorce declaration from Ivana Trump that she later retracted in 2015 after he announced his first presidential bid.
On Truth Social on Monday night, Trump called The Apprentice ‘FAKE’ and ‘CLASSLESS’
On Truth Social, Trump insisted that he and his late first wife Ivana Trump, played by actress Maria Bakalova (left) in the film, “had a great relationship.”
Stan plays Trump and the character of Roy Cohn is played by Succession’s Jeremy Strong.
The film’s director, Ali Abbasi, was in Washington, DC last week and told the audience that he had initially thought about casting a woman in the role of Trump.
“There was a moment, before I started talking to Sebastian, I thought maybe it should be an actress who plays Trump,” Abbasi said. ‘Because I thought there was something awkward and strange about his body language and I wanted to have that. I wanted to play with that. And we tried.’
Speaking to DailyMail.com, Abbasi did not reveal which actresses he spoke to about playing Trump on the big screen, although he did say that he approached Cate Blanchett for advice as she did a “great job” playing Bob Dylan.
“I talked to some people about it and took it seriously,” Abbasi said in an interview Monday.
“I did superimpositions of young Donald’s face and different actresses I was considering,” he continued. “I talked to my prosthetic specialist and tried to figure out how we could solve the problem whether someone had good proportions or not.”
Abbasi told DailyMail.com that he also conducted a voice test with a woman.
“And in the end, I think, I felt like it all became too gimmicky,” he said.
‘It would go against my goal, which was to humanize and, you know, capture the complexity. And it would become a movie about how you did that trick,” the director said.
It also probably would have angered Trump even more than Stan’s performance.
In 2017, after Melissa McCarthy dressed as a woman and portrayed White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live, the fact that McCarthy was a woman was the “most problematic” part of the parody. the president’s eyes. politician reported.
Cast member Kate McKinnon also played Trump’s first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, and former New Yorker Rudy Giuliani, who became Trump’s personal lawyer.
Aidy Bryant played Trump’s second attorney general, Bill Barr.
Abbasi said he didn’t know Trump had become angry about women playing his top aides on the comedy show.
“We talk about it like it’s a negative thing, but it doesn’t have to be,” Abbasi said of gender-bending performances. “But I wasn’t aware, I wasn’t aware of this,” she said of Trump’s anger over the women acting as his aides and allies.
In the end, Stan’s choice for Trump seemed right.
“I think one important thing with Sebastian is that he, and I’ve said this before, is almost specialized in bringing sleazeballs and idiots to life,” Abbasi said. ‘And give them humanity and give them something like what you feel about him. You feel for these characters. Without necessarily being ridiculed.’
“And it’s a very interesting talent, you know, it’s not easy,” the director said.
