Trump whines about “hatchet job” biopic ‘The Apprentice’—while former friends call him a “sore loser”
Joker: Folie à Deux!Predictably, Trump is all up in his feelings over The Apprentice, a new drama from Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider), which tells the story of the MAGA grifter’s early days as a wannabe mogul (played by Sebastian Stan) under the tutelage of infamous prosecutor Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.The biopic premiered back in the spring at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, and since then its filmmakers have received legal threats and cease-and-desist letters from the Trump camp, but many have been waiting for the other shoe to drop, wondering when the disgraced former president would comment on the film himself.Well, it’s no accident that The Apprentice opened in select U.S.
theaters this past weekend—less than a month out from the election—and, like clockwork, Trump suddenly has a lot to say about it.At 12:48 a.m.
