Trump tantrums over ‘Apprentice’ biopic in middle-of-the-night rant: A ‘fake’ and ‘classless’ movie

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Donald Trump threw a middle-of-the-night tantrum to slam a new biopic about his life as a “fake” and “classless” movie. “A FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice, 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 on Truth Social. MAGA2024!” 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. It’s one of these stories where the truth is stranger than fiction.” Sherman has covered Trump for about two decades as a real estate reporter at the New York Observer and as a political reporter at New York Magazine.