'A monster': 'Narcissist' Trump mocked by 'Apprentice' actor

'The Apprentice' (Screengrab/YouTube)

'The Apprentice' (Screengrab/YouTube)

Adam Lynch
April 23, 2025Trump

Actor Sebastion Stan is confident President Donald Trump saw ‘The Apprentice’, even if it showed audiences the makings of “a monster.”

Last October, Trump railed the movie on Truth Social, calling it “a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job.” He added: “So sad that HUMAN SCUM, like the people involved in this hopefully unsuccessful enterprise, are allowed to say and do whatever they want.”

Vanity Fair writer Anthony Breznican reports Stan—the enigmatic actor behind Marvel’s ‘Winter Soldier’—has no doubt the president saw the movie because people like Trump can’t help themselves.

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“I would put money down he’s seen it 100 … times, of course, because he’s a narcissist,” Stan told Vanity Fair. “And I bet you there’s certain things he likes about it,” including how good the Stan made him look.

The withering true-life drama earned the actor both a best-actor Oscar nomination this year and, according to Vanity Fair, “the enduring rage of a vengeful, unchecked president.” “The movie, written by veteran journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondent Gabriel Sherman, depicts Trump in the 1970s as a needy wannabe mogul, eager to escape the shadow of his powerful father and being taught by Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) that underhanded tactics are a shortcut to success,” writes Breaznican.

Pop Culture publication ‘The Mary Sue’ also claims ‘The Apprentice’ does not “put Trump in a positive light.”

Mary Sure columnist Rachel Leishman writes, “We get to see how Roy Cohn … and Trump got close and how their relationship is what allowed Trump to become the man he is today. No one is painted in a positive light.”

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But Trump is the kind of man who would watch a movie about himself, regardless of the subject matter, argues Leishman.

“Think about it. He loves to talk about himself, share things about himself, and even if a movie like ‘The Apprentice’ makes him seem more like a monster to the rest of us, that is the kind of man that I don’t think cares,” reports Leishman. “He publicly says something about it and then looked at Stan playing him and probably thinks ‘he’s hot’. … Stan knows exactly the kind of man Trump is, which is what made his performance so good.”

Read the Vanity Fair article here.