The official trailer for the Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice depicts the Donald’s years becoming an unforgiving Manhattan real estate magnate and Manhattan scenester under the tutelage of infamous lawyer Roy Cohn. “The first rule is: attack, attack, attack,” Jeremy Strong’s Cohn tells Sebastian Stan as Trump. “Rule two: Admit nothing, deny everything.” And rule three? “No matter what happens, you claim victory and never admit defeat.” 
Official synopsis:
A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today.
Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.
reports Trump’s ruthlessness and scenes depicting his sexual assault of Ivana Trump really got Trump’s goat to the point that he, of course, threatened to sue over the film. In his review after its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, TDB’s Nick Schager wrote the film “lays out the gory details regarding the source of his egomania, greed, ambition, vanity, sociopathy, and heartless rapey-ness, the last of which comes to the fore in a brutal assault of his first wife Ivana.” In theaters October 11.
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