Sacha Baron Cohen's New Movie Gives Donald Trump AIDS
Donald Trump, Sacha Baron Cohen (Getty Images)
By Paul Bond
Hollywood is about to give Donald Trump AIDS.
In an upcoming movie from satirist Sacha Baron Cohen called The Brothers Grimsby, a character who is supposed to represent Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe (who is not in the film) is shot at, and his apparently AIDS-tainted blood flies into Trump’s mouth and infects him, too.
Trump is also played by an actor, and the scene unfolds as the end-credits roll.
The Huffington Post reported that the studio, nervous about repercussions from famously litigious and outspoken Trump, asked Baron Cohen to take it out, but he declined.
“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” a Sony spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter, of the claim that Baron Cohen was asked to take the scene out. Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Sony and Baron Cohen, did however, add a disclaimer to the end of the movie making it clear the real Trump didn’t participate and the movie is a farcical comedy.
Baron Cohen has made it clear before that he’s probably no fan of Trump. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, he morphed into his Borat character and said of Trump: “The only person who would ban Muslims is someone with a brain like a female chicken.”
There was some speculation Thursday that Baron Cohen might be up to his marketing tricks, and that the studio isn’t nearly as concerned about the political fallout as is being reported.
Baron Cohen’s stunts are so legendary that he was banned from the Oscars four years ago for fear of what he might do on the red carpet.
Trump has been critical of Sacha Cohen and the comedian’s comic alter ego Ali G, who would trick politicians into taking part in fake interviews. In 2012, Trump tweeted, “I never fall for scams. I am the only person who immediately walked out of my Ali G interview.”
Sony, the studio hacked by the North Koreans when they objected to The Interview, also a comedy, will release The Brothers Grimsby on March 11.
