Looked at Through a Post-Election Lens, ‘The Apprentice’ Respects Trump as Much as the Character Respects Himself

Trump has denounced the film as ‘a politically disgusting hatchet job’, but perhaps he should watch it before rendering judgement.

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Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong as Donald Trump and Roy Cohn in 'The Apprentice'. Mongrel Media

With the re-election of Donald Trump, chances are close to zero that a  biopic about the President- elect’s earlier years will change the mind of anybody who already had an opinion of him– which is just about everybody. 

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