Abbasi and the entire promotional campaign have been trying to play both sides, insisting The Apprentice has no political agenda. (Stan’s best performance yet may be on the press circuit, where he claims the film attempts to be apolitical.)
— Brian Eggert (Deep Focus Review)
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect protégé—someone with raw ambition, a hunger for success, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to win.