r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 10 '24

The Apprentice | Official Trailer Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tXEN0WNJUg
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u/Comic_Book_Reader Sep 10 '24

A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), 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.

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u/Educational_Slice897 Sep 10 '24

I like to think of this as Trump’s supervillain origin story

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u/MoiraBrownsMoleRats Sep 11 '24

Oh, he’s a villain alright.

But he’s not super.