Donald Trump ain’t happy with this movie story of him…
He’s sueing the production....
The movie might be accepted entertainment ….
But it’s NOT what Donald Trump likes…..
(It received a eigth minute standing ovation in Cannes)
Instead, this Monday evening at the Cannes Film Festival, the film received the usual reverential treatment: a gala audience in gowns and tuxedos and star Sebastian Stan posing for photos on the red carpet. (Jeremy Strong, who plays the ruthless lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, is on Broadway; during the eight-minute standing ovation, Iranian Danish director Ali Abbasi held up a still photo of the actor in his dressing room with his fingers in a peace sign.)
The film follows Trump in his years as a New York real estate mogul, as he strikes up an almost filial relationship with Cohn (and then abandons him as Cohn contracts AIDS), and falls in and out of love with his first wife Ivana (Maria Bakalova of “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”)….
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When the lights rose, the applause was instant and robust, with Cate Blanchett and Cynthia Erivo somehow leading the charge down in the orchestra seats near Abbasi and Stan. There had been spots of laughter, especially during moments of physical comedy, like when Trump slips on ice while courting Ivana and boastfully telling her he knows how to ski. But, by and large, it is a very dark and chilling origin story.
Stan’s Trump is not a clown but a vicious “killer,” as the character categorizes his ambition. In details that seem to be based on a 1990 divorce deposition from Ivana Trump, we see him go under the knife, in gory detail, to get liposuction and a scalp reduction surgery, as a solution to his growing love handles and bald spot.
And we watch when, as Ivana also alleged in that deposition, Trump pushes her to the floor of their home during an argument and rapes her. (Ivana’s testimony had brought the concept of marital rape into mainstream American conversation at the time, but she recanted her statements about it in 2015.)
He’s also depicted receiving oral sex from a topless blonde in Atlantic City while married.
“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,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s campaign communications director….
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Almost as soon as they meet, Cohn is teaching Trump life lessons that still seem to be ones he lives by — and that he laid out in his book “The Art of the Deal”:
1) Attack, attack, attack. (“If someone comes at you with a knife, you hit them with a bazooka,” Stan’s Trump later says.)
2) Admit nothing and deny everything.
3) Never admit defeat.
“I thought that the director’s voice was incredibly bold, and it was a funny take but also incredibly impactful,” said Michelle J. Li, a 27-year-old costume designer from New York, outside the theater. “When you see him portrayed as a human, it makes all these wild choices that we know him to have made even more [frightening].”…..
image….Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Sebastian Stan as Donald Trump in a scene from “The Apprentice,” which premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival. (Mongrel Media/Cannes Film Festival)