3 hours ago ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but for the truly horrible origin story read the book | Emma Brockes

Lucky Loser, by two New York Times journalists, reveals just how much Donald owes to his father (spoiler alert: everything) The singular piece of publicity most helpful to The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump that opened in the US last week and opens in the UK this Friday, is the fact its subject tried to block the movie’s release. The title refers to Trump’s adventures as a young man under the informal mentorship of the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn – former chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy, among other things – and from whom, the movie suggests, Trump picked up much of his conniving and ruthlessness. Trump is so lurid in life that he may be impossible to fictionalise, but the movie has a good crack. That it fails leaves one feeling vaguely cheated of an opportunity to deepe...

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3 hours ago ‘Trump, the movie’ is a fun watch, but read the book if you really want to know all about him | Emma Brockes

Lucky Loser, by two New York Times journalists, reveals just how much Donald owes to his father (spoiler alert: everything) The singular piece of publicity most helpful to The Apprentice, a film about Donald Trump that opened in the US last week and opens in the UK this Friday, is the fact its subject tried to block the movie’s release. The title refers to Trump’s adventures as a young man under the informal mentorship of the notorious New York lawyer Roy Cohn – former chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy, among other things – and from whom, the movie suggests, Trump picked up much of his conniving and ruthlessness. Trump is so lurid in life that he may be impossible to fictionalise, but the movie has a good crack. That it fails leaves one feeling vaguely cheated of an opportunity to deepe...

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3 hours ago The Apprentice review: Controversial Donald Trump movie The Apprentice isn’t worth the fuss

The man himself may have ranted online about Ali Abbasi’s biopic – starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong – but little here proves revelatory

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9 hours ago The Apprentice actors call Trump’s ‘human scum’ reaction to controversial biopic ‘ridiculous’

Actor Jeremy Strong brands Trump’s response an ‘endorsement’ of the movie

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14 hours ago EU’s weak or distracted governments make unity of purpose hard to achieve

Leaders can only spend limited political capital on Euro initiatives while weighed down by domestic troublesIt has become a wry joke in Brussels that the most stable country in the EU is Italy, once infamous for its succession of short-lived governments.France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz have been humbled by punishing electoral defeats. Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, presides over a minority government in a country riven by division after a controversial amnesty bill. In Poland, Donald Tusk enjoys a much stronger position, but grapples with an unwieldy coalition and an opposition-allied president. Continue reading...

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