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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
David Smith in Washington and Adrian Horton in New York

‘Everybody told me not to do it’: can a movie shift a presidential election?

three film stills: a man with an american flag, a woman in red and a man in a suit in front of a yellow taxi
Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11, Julianne Moore in Game Change and Sebastian Stan in The Apprentice. Composite: Dog Eat Dog films /HBO/ Alamy

Donald Trump was an angry man. “It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try and hurt the Greatest Political Movement in the History of our Country,” the Republican nominee wrote in an early morning post on his Truth Social platform.

Trump was referring to The Apprentice, a film that chronicles his early rise. “So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want,” he added, triggering all sorts of freedom of speech alarms.

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