Donald Trump said his former wife Ivana was a great person and he had a great relationship with her until the day she died as Trump trashed the movie ‘The Apprentice’ — based on Trump’s early life. “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.” 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, ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote at night.
“My former wife, Ivana, was a kind and wonderful person, and I had a great relationship with her until the day she died. 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. 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. MAGA2024!” Trump continued his rant.
The film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, an American lawyer and prosecutor who was Donald Trump’s mentor during his early days.
Maria Bakalova stars as Ivana Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife between 1977 and 1990. Ivana died in 2022.
Screenwriter Gabriel Sherman told Entertainment Weekly that the “most shocking” moments in the film are all based on “real events.” “The funny thing is, everything in the movie that seems the most shocking is actually completely based on real events,” he said. “Very little has been dramatized. It’s one of these stories where the truth is stranger than fiction.”
What was the relationship between Trump and Roy Cohn?
Sherman said there was a father-son dynamic to their relationship but on another level, there was a “homoerotic subtext”. “One of the things I found in my research is that a lot of Roy’s lovers were young, blond, blue-eyed men who bore a striking resemblance to young Donald. I think Roy was attracted to Trump, in a way, and this movie is sort of a love story,” Sherman said.
Did Trump ‘rape’ Ivana?
USA Today reported that there is a stomach-churning scene in the movie where Donald tells Ivana that he’s no longer attracted to her. Ivana retorts that Donald is fat and balding. “Donald throws Ivana to the floor and climbs on top of her, proceeding to sexually assault his wife as she screams for him to stop,” the report said.
“The alleged rape is taken from a court deposition “that Ivana gave under oath during her 1990 divorce,” Sherman said. “In fact, the scene she described in the divorce papers was actually far more graphic and brutal than the one we dramatized in the film.”