'The Apprentice' Director 'Grateful' for Donald Trump's Complaints

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"The Apprentice" director Ali Abbasi isn't sweating Donald Trump's harsh criticism of his flick ... in fact, he's encouraging 45 to keep posting about the biopic.

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00:00Were you shocked to see Donald Trump's review this morning when you woke up from, you know,

00:09opening weekend of the movie?

00:10I mean, I'm back in London and I'm jet-lagged and I totally understand it when you're like,

00:16you know, sitting and, you know, with your phone in your hand, 1 a.m. and, you know,

00:20you get mad and everything.

00:23But for him, you know, he has a lot to do.

00:25I just wish for him to sleep better and, you know, focus better on his job, you know.

00:29But thanks to him, I think, you know, we get better publicity and we get more people

00:36to come and watch it now.

00:37So, you know, I'm grateful.

00:39Do you plan on trying to talk to the president and actually trying to get him to sit down

00:43and watch the film?

00:44I assume he hasn't watched it and sort of just fired up the tweet without seeing it.

00:49I mean, look, you know, joke aside, as a courtesy, you know, this is a movie about a real person.

00:54And as a courtesy, I, you know, extend invitation to Mr. Trump and his family, you know, to

01:00show the movie and I'm available, you know, just today and tomorrow are really full days

01:04press-wise.

01:05But, you know, I can make myself available and, you know, I also think that he is curious,

01:12you know, I would be curious too, you know, and it would be fun for him, it would be fun

01:16for me.

01:17We can sit together, you know.

01:18Why not?

01:19I encourage Mr. Trump to keep tweeting about the movie and how much he hates the movie

01:23because I think that, you know, I can't say how much I appreciate it, you know.

01:28I truly do.

01:29You can't buy that kind of advertising, right?

01:32I mean, he's got a huge audience.

01:33Well, I tried, you know.

01:34Yeah.

01:35Yeah, right.

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