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Donald Trump’s new film, The Apprentice, is gorier and more gruesome than you’d expect for a film about the former president

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46% Informative

Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice is a Frankenstein -style origin story.

The film's Trump pops diet pills, gets plastic surgery, and, in the movie’s most controversial sequence, sexually assaults his first wife, Ivana .

Screenwriter Gabe Sherman says he didn't have to add much flourish to their characters because the real versions were so interesting.

Donald Trump's alleged plastic surgery procedures were first described by Ivana in her divorce deposition.

In The Apprentice , his pill intake causes Trump to suffer erectile dysfunction.

In the film, the scalp reduction is shown in bloody, gruesome detail.

Trump has denied the incident as well as the surgery.

Donald turned away his brother Fred shortly before the elder Trump ’s death shortly before his brother's death.

The Apprentice was written by screenwriter Richard Sherman .

Sherman used details from multiple sources, including the memoir Too Much and Never Enough , written by Fred 's daughter, Mary .

VR Score

45

Informative language

46

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42

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informal

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English

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38

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offensive

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short-lived

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