Donald Trump is depicted “raping” his then-wife Ivana in controversial biopic The Apprentice, with Sebastian Stan portraying a younger version of the former US president

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is sensationally depicted raping his wife Ivana in a film that premiered at Cannes tonight.

In “The Apprentice,” actor Sebastian Stan plays Trump as a younger man and “Succession” star Jeremy Strong portrays his fixer Roy Cohn.

The film, which is in competition at the festival, tells the story of the end of his marriage to Ivana and shows how she offers him a book about how to be a better lover.

Trump tells her he no longer finds her attractive. He rapes her and then asks, “Did I find your G-spot?”

In a divorce declaration in 1989, Ivana made allegations of rape, but withdrew them in 2015. She has since died.

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The film’s makers are now reportedly feuding with one of its backers, billionaire Dan Snyder, a Trump supporter and former campaign donor.

In “The Apprentice,” Sebastian plays Stan Trump in the blossoming early years of his business career, particularly his association with controversial attorney Roy Cohn, who died of AIDS-related illness in 1986.

Production on “The Apprentice” began in late November. The film follows Trump in the ’70s and ’80s as he tries to build his real estate empire based on his father Fred Trump’s holdings.

“The Apprentice” is directed by Iranian filmmaker Ali Abbasi, who directed the critically acclaimed Persian-language crime thriller “Holy Spider,” which was released in 2022.

Successor star Jeremy Strong, who will portray disgraced – and ultimately disbarred – lawyer Roy Cohn, will appear prominently as the younger Trump’s mentor. He was later disbarred in 1986 for defrauding a dying client.

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Oscar-nominated actress Maria Bakalova plays Trump’s late ex-wife Ivana Trump at a young age.

Variety initially reported that the film’s title would be “The Student,” adding that a logline for the upcoming film described it as “an exploration of power and ambition in a world of corruption and deception.”

“It is a mentor-protégé story that traces the origins of an American dynasty. “Filled with larger-than-life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

The screenplay for the film was written by Gabriel Sherman, who wrote the 2014 book “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country.”

In Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce statement, she stated that Mr. Trump raped her. She claimed that Trump pushed her to the ground and ripped out several handfuls of her hair.

Mr. Trump denied the accusation and Ivana Trump later said she didn’t mean it literally but that she felt hurt.

In a 1993 statement, she said, “On one occasion in 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved toward me very differently than he had behaved toward me during our marriage.”

“As a woman, I felt violated… I called it rape, but I don’t want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”