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.
Sebastian Stan says Donald Trump is “a lot smarter than people want to say about him”
nme.comDonald Trump in a new interview, saying the former President of the United States is “a lot smarter than people want to say about him”.Stan is playing Trump is the upcoming film The Apprentice, which explores Trump’s life as a businessman in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
It received its premiere in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received an eight-minute standing ovation.Speaking to Variety, Stan explained: “I think he’s a lot smarter than people want to say about him…because he repeats things consistently, and he’s given you a brand.”Stan revealed that he watched many videos of Trump on a loop while preparing for The Apprentice.“I had 130 videos on his physicality on my phone,” he continued. “And 562 videos that I had pulled with pictures from different time periods — from the ’70s all the way to today — so I could pull out his speech patterns and try to improvise like him.” He was also asked to ab-lib by director Ali Abbasi so had to know many details about Trump and how he would likely respond in certain scenarios.“Ali could come in on the second take and say, ‘Why don’t you talk a little bit about the taxes and how you don’t want to pay?’ So I had to know what charities they were going to in 1983.
Every night I would go home and try not only to prepare for the day that was coming, but also to prepare for where Ali was going to take this.”Meanwhile, Trump has threatened legal action against the film on account of a scene where it depicts him raping his ex-wife.A representative of Trump’s campaign team said they will be “filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers”.Steven Cheung told Variety: “This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been.
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