A few days ago, there was a big premiere at the Cannes Film Festival for a film called The Apprentice. The film stars Sebastian Stan as a young Donald Trump, Jeremy Strong as a young Roy Cohn, and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump. The reviews from Cannes are really good – they’re saying Sebastian and Jeremy are particularly great in their roles, which I believe. Well, apparently the real Donald Trump is beyond pissed about this movie, and after hearing a summary of what the film includes about Trump’s actual history… it’s really funny.

Donald Trump’s campaign has threatened legal action against the filmmakers of The Apprentice, calling the movie “blatantly false,” “garbage,” and “pure fiction.”

Following The Apprentice’s premiere at the glitzy Cannes Film Festival, the Trump campaign’s chief spokesman, Steven Cheung, issued a statement about the film to Variety. “We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” Cheung said in the statement. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.” The statement went on to reference Trump’s legal troubles, which include his hush money trial involving adult-film star Stormy Daniels, currently underway in New York City. “As with the illegal Biden Trials, this is election interference by Hollywood elites, who know that President Trump will retake the White House and beat their candidate of choice because nothing they have done has worked.”

Written by VF special correspondent Gabriel Sherman and directed by Ali Abbasi, The Apprentice stars Sebastian Stan as Trump early in his career, when he’s on a ruthless path to becoming a real estate mogul. The film also stars Emmy winner Jeremy Strong as Trump lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn and Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump.

The film, which received an eight-minute-long standing ovation at Cannes, reportedly features a young Trump getting liposuction, taking amphetamine pills, and undergoing plastic surgery to remove a bald spot. The Apprentice also reportedly includes a controversial scene in which Trump assaults Ivana physically and then sexually. (In a divorce deposition, Ivana accused her ex-husband of having “violated” her in 1989, but she walked back the claim in 2015, telling CNN that a Daily Beast story about her earlier allegations was “totally without merit.”)

According to Team Trump, the film “is pure malicious defamation.” The Apprentice “should not see the light of day, and doesn’t even deserve a place in the straight-to-DVD section of a bargain bin at a soon-to-be-closed discount movie store,” Cheung continued in his statement, adding that the movie “belongs in a dumpster fire.”

[From Vanity Fair]

Honestly, I doubt Trump even remembers what he did back in the ‘80s, so of course he thinks this is all fiction. But yeah, the story is based on actual things that happened or stories which were told at the time. Trump’s spokesperson sounds absolutely unhinged too – The Illegal Biden Trials, aka Trump paying hush money to Stormy Daniels when he was running against… Hillary Clinton. The liposuction and hair transplant stories are really hitting Trump where it hurts too – his ego and vanity.

Photos courtesy of Cover Images. Promotional image from ‘The Apprentice’.