Donald Trump is learning how to be a businessman in the first teaser for the movie “The Apprentice.”
The clip, released Tuesday, shows a young Trump (played by Sebastian Stan) in the car with power lawyer and fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). They are on the phone with a reporter about Trump’s plans to buy the Commodore Hotel (now know as the Hyatt Grand Central New York).
“Donald, now that the lawsuit is behind you, what do you want to do next?” the reporter, Judy, asks on the call.
“I’m planning on making it the best and the finest building in the city … maybe the country,” Trump says.
Cohn, who is coaching the future president, tells him to talk up his vision for the hotel more.
“In the world. It’s going to be the finest building in the world,” Trump tells Judy. “It’s going to be a spectacular hotel. Absolutely spectacular. First class.”
Judy tells Trump that his plans, which were mouthed by Cohn, are “very ambitious.”
“Where do you get the drive?” she asks Trump. “You’re still so young.”
Going off script, Trump responds, “I’ve got flair and I’m smart and I think that’s going to make me successful.”
Cohn tells Trump to “slow down,” prompting Trump to tell Judy, “But I also want to stay humble.”
At this point, Cohn snatches the phone from Trump and tells Judy they can continue the conversation later in-person and with a photographer present.
Trump apologizes to Cohn, who responds, “Listen, it’s your life. You got a ways to go, but you’re learning.”
Directed by Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi, “The Apprentice” had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it received an 8-minute standing ovation.
The film focuses on Trump’s rise to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s and his relationships with Cohn, who worked with Trump before dying in 1986, and his first wife, Ivana Trump (Maria Bakalova).
The movie’s logline reads: “A young Donald Trump eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé — someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.”
Trump, 78, sent a cease and desist letter to the producers of the film over a scene that depicts him violently raping Ivana. Trump has denied the allegation he assaulted his late ex-wife.
Ivana, who died in July 2022, alleged in a 1989 divorce deposition that Trump had sexually assaulted her — a claim she later retracted.
“We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Post. “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked.”
“The Apprentice” does not cover the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections or Trump’s four years in the White House. It also has nothing to do with the NBC reality TV series he hosted.
The film struggled to find a distributor at first. It was eventually acquired by Briarcliff Entertainment.
“The Apprentice” debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May. It will be released in theaters on October 11.
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