With lower than a month till the 2024 presidential election, Jon Stewart has one film on his thoughts.
On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, the comic referred to as out Donald Trump‘s hypocrisy for standing on a platform of free speech whereas trying to have the upcoming movie The Apprentice shut down, calling it election interference.
“Oh, come on! That’s election interference?” mentioned Stewart. “Perhaps it’s election interference, however you gotta be a bit of bit flattered that you just’re being performed by Sebastian Stan.”
As a photograph of Stan displayed subsequent to him, Stewart appeared obsessed on the MCU star. “Oh, Sebastian. In the event you’re the Winter Soldier, why is it abruptly so heat in right here?” he mentioned.
“I appear to be Sebastian Stan when you have been to place his face by means of a kind of filters on TikTok that present your look proper earlier than you die,” joked Stewart. “Yeah, you may applaud that… I do know what I appear to be.”
Written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice charts a younger Trump’s ascent to energy by means of a Faustian take care of the influential right-wing lawyer and political fixer Roy Cohn (Jeremy Sturdy). 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 Film Festival in Could, the place it acquired an 11-minute ovation, Trump’s marketing campaign issued a cease-and-desist trying 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 screen at Telluride Film Festival in August.
The Apprentice premieres Oct. 11 in theaters.
