00:00Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the new film about him titled The Apprentice, calling it fake and classless.
00:06The biopic follows Trump's early years as he rose to prominence and became a real estate tycoon in the 1980s.
00:13The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and made just $1.6 million in its first 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 right to use that name without approval?
00:31We'll hopefully bomb.
00:33It's a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 presidential election,
00:40to try and hurt the greatest political movement in the history of our country.
00:43Make America great again.
00:45In the two-hour feature, Sebastian Stan portrays Trump as he's mentored by Roy Cohn, portrayed by Jeremy Strong,
00:51revealing how Cohn shaped the Trump people know today.
00:54The film also shows Stan's Trump falling in love with his first wife, Ivana,
00:58and includes a controversial scene of Trump raping Ivana,
01:02which she claimed during their divorce proceedings but later recanted.
01:05Trump also wrote,
01:07My former wife Ivana was a kind and wonderful person,
01:10and I had a great relationship with her until the day she died.
01:13The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman,
01:15a lowlife and talentless hack who has long been widely discredited,
01:19knew 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,
01:30which is 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 at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:38In May, a cease and desist letter was sent from Trump's attorney to the film's director and its screenwriter.
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