“Pure defamation”, “bullshit”, “electoral interference”. Released in theaters this Wednesday, October 9, the latest film by Danish-Iranian director Ali Abbasi, The Apprenticeis strongly criticized by Donald Trump and those close to him. The film borrows its title from the reality TV show that the former American president hosted in the early 2000s. It explores the billionaire’s young years in the 1970s and 1980s in New York, a period during which he built his real estate empire alongside his mentor, lawyer Roy Cohn. The director, Ali Abbasi, explains that his intention is not to judge Trump, but to present the system he helped create.
An uncompromising portrait, where we see him taking drugs, raping his ex-wife Ivana Trump, or even undergoing liposuction operations. A highly political and corrosive film, which is very poorly received by the main person concerned, whose popularity continues to fall in the face of the new Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris.
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In a recent statement, Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung called the biopic “pure malicious defamation» and “electoral interference by Hollywood elites just before [le 5] new onesmbre“. If it’s just “bullshit debunked a long time ago», the subject of the film makes the team of the Republican candidate for the American presidential election feverish. Last May, during its screening at the Cannes Film Festival, she sent the filmmaker a cease and desist letter in an attempt to block the release of the film.
As long as Donald Trump faced Joe Biden, his electoral campaign was doing quite well. A majority of observers even considered him capable of running for a second term again. But the long-awaited withdrawal of the Democratic president from the American presidential race dealt a heavy blow to the billionaire.
Now he must face the very popular Kamala Harris, at the top of many popularity polls. With the release of an unflattering biopic, his chances of returning to the Oval Office are diminishing. Already in 2016, Donald Trump had won his victory with difficulty. Since Benjamin Harrison in 1888, he is the first Republican president never to have obtained an absolute majority of the popular vote, capping at 46.1% of the vote in his first campaign and 46.8% in his second campaign. the American presidential election.