‘The Apprentice’ faced the challenge of making us even more scared of Donald Trump. It managed it
The biopic explains what he learned from Roy Cohn, an unscrupulous lawyer addicted to lying and extortion. The portrait is brutal, not unlike the current reality
The difficulty in making a satirical biopic about Donald Trump is that Trump himself will always be capable of shocking us more than anything we might say about him. The U.S. president is busy turning everything he does into a reality show, with his CEO Elon Musk and his Vice President J. D. Vance in prominent roles.
