The Apprentice Is Trolling Donald Trump In The Most Hilarious Way
Who doesn’t love a little trolling behavior leading into a movie premiere and a major Presidential election? What a perfect intersection of politics and theater, something we are seeing play out right now with Donald Trump and The Apprentice, a movie telling the story of the former President and real estate tycoon’s life.
According to Deadline, before a Trump Rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, the makers of The Apprentice flew a plane over the crowd with a banner imploring the former and maybe future president to see the movie coming out this Friday. What a move.
Check out the video posted by MediasTouch.
You can see the stunt pulled by The Apprentice crew in the video above. The sign says, “Trump Go See The Apprentice Friday” in a clear and direct message. Was it intended just for Donald Trump’s eyes? Of course not. This is Marketing 101 people. Will it work? We’ll see. But it seems for sure worth the effort.
The Apprentice is directed by Ali Abbasi (Holy Spider, Shelley) and has positioned itself as a mentor-protege movie about Donald Trump and Roy Cohn during their time in the 1970s and 1980s. This was when Donald Trump was first coming on the New York City real estate scene, and the movie is set to detail their relationship, among other things, about Trump’s life.
In The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan is playing Donald Trump, and Jeremy Strong takes on the Roy Cohn role
In The Apprentice, Sebastian Stan is playing Donald Trump, and Jeremy Strong takes on the Roy Cohn role, two of the stronger leads we have going these days. Maria Bakalova plays Ivana Trump, and Martin Donovan is Fred Trump, Donald’s father.
There are said to be a number of controversial scenes in the movie that don’t portray Donald Trump in anything close to a positive light. There is drug use, sexual assault, and a number of other things that were obtained through court records during Trump’s divorce.
While The Apprentice is set to hit theaters on October 11th in the United States and Canada, it has already screened at the Cannes Film Festival back in May. The movie received positive reviews from critics with the Rotten Tomatoes scoring sitting at 79% through 108 looks.
Beyond just trolling Donald Trump for the marketing fun of it, The Apprentice is clearly playing on every possible angle, even with the title. There’s no coincidence that while the title refers to the relationship between Trump and Cohn, there’s also an overlap with the Donald Trump-led reality television series, which ran for 15 seasons between 2004 and 20017.
That show helped to catapult Donald Trump back into the national spotlight and was responsible, and much as anything as laying the groundwork for his eventual Presidential run.
Now, the real question is whether Donald Trump will actually see The Apprentice. One would have to think he will, plane flying over his rallies or not. Beyond that, the real movie is what seems to be playing out in our national political scene. Sometimes the truth is even stranger than fiction.
