Donald Trump’s comms director has issued a statement promising legal action against the filmmakers involved in “The Apprentice.”
The film about Trump, Roy Cohn and ex-wife Ivana premiered yesterday in Cannes to a supposedly 11-minute standing ovation. The reviews have been mixed. Sebastian Stan plays Trump, Maria Bakalova is Ivana, and Jeremy Strong is Cohn.
I didn’t want to mention this scene, since it takes place near the end of the film, but you’ll be hearing about it everywhere. The film shows Trump, taunted by Ivana, forcibly having sex with her.
We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers. This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked. As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.
“The Apprentice” is still looking for a distributor, and this lawsuit will no doubt complicate things. One of the film’s investors, billionaire Dan Snyder, is reportedly angry that “The Apprentice” kept the rape scene, he’s also threatening to withold the film from distribution. Snyder, a Republican and Trump donor, has a film investment company that will have a lot of sway in how the movie is sold.
The scene in question has Ivana gifting a book to Trump about the merits of a female orgasm. A furious Trump then tells his wife that he is no longer attracted to her. They argue, and then Trump throws her to the ground, has sex with her and shouts: “Is that your G spot? Did I find it?”
Ivana — who died in 2022 — has refuted these claims of rape. In 2015, she said, “the story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of.”
UPDATE: At today’s press conference, Abassi did say that he’d love to screen the film for Trump, and that it’s “not necessarily a film that he’d dislike.”
As expected, Snyder's latest is being torn apart by TIFF attendees. No mercy given. The film, which had its world premiere this evening, is being called by some one of the worst movies to ever premiere at the festival.