In a speech to the Cannes Film Festival following The Apprentice‘s world premiere on Monday, actor Jeremy Powerful compared former president Donald Trump to Stalin and Mao and also defended CNN.
His statement comes after Ali Abbasi, the director of The Apprentice, slandered Donald Trump as a fascist following the screen.
Jeremy Strong, who plays Trump mentor Roy Cohn in the movie, is appearing in a Broadway production of Ibsen’s Enemy of the People and could n’t attend the premiere.
In a speech read loud by , Abbasi during a press conference on Tuesday, the artist used the show’s subject to strike Trump.
” ‘ Enemy of the people’ is a term that has been used by Stalin, Mao, by Goebbels, and most recently by Donald Trump who denounces the free press and calls CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, the New York Times, false news media”, he said.
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” We’re living in a world where reality is under assault”, he added, before blaming Roy Cohn for his “legacy of falsehoods, of illegal for, of deception, of blatant disregard for truth”.
Solid did not mention the numerous deceptions committed by the mainstream media, including the cover-up of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal and its development of the Russia collusion fake.
The Apprentice,  , which does n’t have a U. S. distributor, is competing for the top prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where mainstream media outlets have showered it with praise and adulation, including for actor Sebastian Stan’s performance as a young Trump.
Trump’s rise to power in the 1970s is depicted in the dramatization of the film as he becomes a near friend of Roy Cohn. It , also portrays Trump’s relationship with his father ( Martin Donovan ) and first wife, Ivana ( Borat 2 actress , Maria Bakalova ).
In one scene, the film depicts Trump raping Ivana — an action that Ivana Trump has denied happening.
This year, the Trump campaign announced its intent to bring legal action against the artists.
The Trump campaign’s general spokesperson, Steven Cheung, said,” We will be filing a complaint to handle the blatantly false claims from these wish filmmakers.” This is true fiction, according to  , which sensationalizes lies that have been much refuted.
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