Trump Trashes ‘Apprentice’ Filmmakers As ‘HUMAN SCUM’ | EUROtoday

Donald Trump raged concerning the new movie “The Apprentice” on Monday, calling the film a “pile of garbage” made by “human scum.”

The former president and GOP presidential nominee was fired up in his early-morning Truth Social put up, the place he railed towards the screenwriter, journalist Gabe Sherman, and hoped that the “fake and classless” movie could be a field workplace bomb.

“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,” Trump wrote in his put up, which has a time stamp of 12:48 a.m. EST.

Directed by Ali Abbasi, “The Apprentice” stars Sebastian Stan as a younger Trump making a reputation for himself as a New York actual property developer, with “Succession’s” Jeremy Strong as his mentor Roy Cohn.

Premiering at this yr’s Cannes Film Festival, the controversial biopic portrays Trump as an amphetamine-addled slumlord, and features a scene the place he rapes his first spouse, Ivana Trump (performed by Maria Bakalova).

Appearing to dispute the depiction in his put up, Trump known as Ivana “a kind and wonderful person,” and stated he “had a great relationship with her until the day she died.”

Ivana Trump, a Czech mannequin turned businesswoman, did use the phrase “rape” to explain an incident detailed in her and Donald’s high-profile Nineties divorce case, however later recanted the allegation. She died in 2022.

In his Truth Social put up, Trump attacked Sherman as “the writer of this pile of garbage” and “a lowlife and talentless hack, who has long been widely discredited.” He stated Sherman “chose to ignore” what he stated had been the info about his and Ivana’s relationship.

“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,” Trump wrote.

The former president’s authorized staff tried and failed to dam the movie’s launch earlier this yr, leaving “The Apprentice” struggling to discover a distributor within the U.S.

And although he was unable to cease the movie from hitting theaters, Trump seems to be getting his want concerning the field workplace.

“The Apprentice” opened on Friday to weak ticket gross sales, taking in a meager $1.6 million, in response to The Associated Press.

For a full critique of the movie, you’ll be able to learn HuffPost’s overview.