There's A Scene In The New Donald Trump Biopic That Left Audiences Shocked

The new Donald Trump biopic “The Apprentice” includes what some critics and audience members are describing as a scene where a young Trump rapes his then-wife Ivana.

In the movie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday night, Ivana Trump (played by Maria Bakalova) shows Donald (Sebastian Stan) a book about the female orgasm. According to Variety, Donald then tells Ivana he isn’t attracted to her and throws her on the ground and penetrates her, saying, “Is that your G-spot? Did I find it?”

The scene drew gasps from the Cannes audience, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Many reviews and articles about the movie describe it as a rape scene, though not all do. Some viewers who saw it at the Cannes Film Festival told Variety they considered it a depiction of “rape” or “sexual assault.”

Ivana Trump accused Donald of rape in a divorce deposition in 1990. Donald denied the accusation, and Ivana later said the incident left her feeling “violated” but not raped “in a literal or criminal sense.” She died in 2022.

In May, a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against the writer E. Jean Carroll. In her 2019 book “What Do We Need Men For,” Carroll wrote that Trump raped her in a New York City dressing room in 1996.

“The Apprentice” has been criticized for doing too much to humanize Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021 and who has been indicted for four different criminal charges. At least 23 women have accused him of various acts of sexual misconduct, including sexual harassment and sexual assault.

Ali Abbasi directed the movie, which chronicles Trump’s career as a real estate businessman in the 1970s and ’80s. He said in a news conference that the film is about deconstructing mythological-like figures and