'Deny, deflect, delay': Jeremy Strong channels Trump's mentor in 'The Apprentice'

'Deny, deflect, delay': Jeremy Strong channels Trump's mentor in 'The Apprentice' toggle caption Apprentice Productions Ontario Inc. With less than a month until the presidential election, Jeremy Strong's new movie, The Apprentice, is causing a stir. Sponsor Message In a statement to the Associated Press, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said that the Trump team will file a lawsuit “to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers.” Strong notes that the move to block the movie seems straight out of Cohn's playbook: "Deny, deflect, delay.. … I absolutely feel a sort of fidelity to truth with a capital "T," which is funny in this case because Roy Cohn, if he's anything to me, he's like the progenitor of alternative facts. Sponsor Message On leaving his characters — even Kendall Roy — behind I have a stack of scripts in my office and it's like this stack of lives that I've had that when they're over, they're over, and you just put them away.