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Former President Donald Trump is weighing in on the new film about him titled 'The Apprentice,' calling it "fake and classless." The biopic follows Trump's early years as he rose to prominence and became a real estate tycoon in the 1980s. The feature film opened in roughly 1,700 theaters nationwide and made just $1.6 million in its first weekend.
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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.
01:43For more on this story and all the latest news, go to THR.com.
01:48This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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