Apprentice Fact Check
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Ali Abbasi’s new Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice includes many specific details about the early days of Trump and his friendship with lawyer Roy Cohn. But did they all really happen? We fact-checked key moments in the movie below.

Spoilers about the film follow.

But First: The Apprentice Admits Some Fictionalizing

Credit: Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan as Roy Cohn and Donald Trump in The Apprentice, Briarcliff Entertainment

Did Trump Give Roy Cohn Fake Cufflinks When He Was Dying?

Roy Cohn The Apprentice Blackmail
Credit: Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan as Roy Cohn and Donald Trump in The Apprentice, Briarcliff Entertainment

Did Trump Have Scalp Reduction Surgery?

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Did Trump Have Liposuction?

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The Apprentice Rape Scene

Credit: Estee Lauder with Mrs. Ivana Trump at a Red Cross ball in Palm Beach, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain

Roy Cohn Died of AIDS

Roy Cohn
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Credit: A still from My Cousin Vinny. 20th Century Fox.