'Fake and classless': Movie meltdown sees Trump claim he owns the words 'The Apprentice'
Former President Donald Trump suffered a movie meltdown early Monday morning that saw him claim he owns the words "The Apprentice."
Trump railed against "The Apprentice" two days after the biopic about his relationship with disbarred attorney Roy Cohn — chief counsel for Sen. Joseph McCarthy's blacklist committee who secured death sentences for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg by nefarious means — hit theaters.
"A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully 'bomb,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social just before 1 a.m. ET.
"It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country."
This is not the first time Trump has complained about the movie, which features a young Trump, portrayed by Sebastian Stan, being smacked in the face by a furious Cohn who also insults his "totally disgusting" diet.
Trump took legal action to try to stop the movie from hitting theaters in May and may have tried to bully movie executives from screening it — but ultimately proved unsuccessful.
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Stan has received less than rave reviews from political pundits, one of who argued he portrayed Trump with too much empathy and internal sentiment.
The movie includes a rape scene drawn from a court deposition Trump's first wife Ivana gave during her 1990 divorce but recanted in 2015, reports show.
Trump did not reference the scene but claimed he and his first wife — who is now buried at his New Jersey golf club — had a "great relationship."
"The writer of this pile of garbage, Gabe Sherman, a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited, knew that, but chose to ignore it," Trump wrote.
"So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want in order to hurt a Political Movement, which is far bigger than any of us."