Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
‘The Apprentice’: Read The Screenplay That Takes On The Origin Story Of Donald Trump
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind this awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Apprentice, the Ali Abbasi-directed drama about the formative years of Donald Trump based on the feature-screenwriting debut of journalist Gabriel Sherman.
Sebastian Stan plays Trump beginning in the 1970s when he was a young New York real estate developer, while Jeremy Strong plays his mentor, the lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn, who teaches his protégé how to obtain power and wealth using deception, intimidation and media manipulation.
Their relationship provides the anchor for the film, an origin story of sorts (“inspired by true events,” per the script’s title page) as Trump begins his rise.
Maria Bakalova plays Trump’s first wife Ivana. The film, Abbasi’s English-language debut, had a splashy world premiere at May’s Cannes Film Festival — a splash noted by Team Trump, which wanted to stop the film from being seen and threatened lawsuits.
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