The Apprentice (2024)

15/11/2025

I don't know how much the movie is close to reality, but I found it interesting to discover the influence that this person, Roy Cohn, had on Trump. I wonder if Trump in his very first years really retained a certain level of morality that, with time, he completely eliminated, or if he was always like we know him today.

I would like to fictiously respond to Roy Cohn's idea that the world is shit and the rules are there only to be broken. It is probably useless but I have the feeling that his character may be assumed to be a positive one: a self-made man that became rich and successful by outsmarting the system with his genius.

I have so much to say about this but I'll try to stay short. First of all, if the world is shit, is because people like you are around. Second, there is no genius in getting what you want by blackmailing everyone. Third, it is easy to spit on human rights coming from a position of privilege: yes, it made you rich, but it is easy, superficial, and boring (other than bad, of course). If you really were a man "with balls" as you like to say, you would use your privilege for the good of people have not been so lucky as you in life.

This being said, of course I found disturbing the way in which Cohn was stabbed in the back by his apprentice but then again, as we say in Italian, "chi semina vento, raccoglierà tempesta" .