With lower than a month till the 2024 presidential election, Jon Stewart has one film on his thoughts.
On Monday’s episode of The Every day Present, the comic referred to as out Donald Trump‘s hypocrisy for standing on a platform of free speech whereas making an attempt to have the upcoming movie The Apprentice shut down, calling it election interference.
“Oh, come on! That’s election interference?” stated Stewart. “Perhaps it’s election interference, however you gotta be somewhat bit flattered that you simply’re being performed by Sebastian Stan.”
As a photograph of Stan displayed subsequent to him, Stewart appeared obsessed on the MCU star. “Oh, Sebastian. Should you’re the Winter Soldier, why is it abruptly so heat in right here?” he stated.
“I appear like Sebastian Stan for those who have been to place his face via a kind of filters on TikTok that present your look proper earlier than you die,” joked Stewart. “Yeah, you possibly can applaud that… I do know what I appear like.”
Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a younger Trump’s ascent to energy via a Faustian take care of the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Robust). The film additionally stars Martin Donovan as Fred Trump Sr. and Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump.
After the movie had its world premiere at Cannes Movie Pageant in Could, the place it obtained an 11-minute ovation, Trump’s marketing campaign issued a cease-and-desist making an attempt to cease the movie from screening within the US amid the 2024 presidential election. However the letter seems to have been fruitless because the title went on to display at Telluride Movie Pageant in August.
The Apprentice premieres Oct. 11 in theaters.
