STORY: :: A camera operator impersonates Donald Trump at the Cannes Film Festival
:: ahead of the premiere of 'The Apprentice,' a film about Trump's early years
:: May 20, 2024
::Bob Long, Camera operator
"Trump Bibles, there's nothing like Trump Bibles. It's a good book, not a great book. I didn't write it. I'm working on the last chapter. If I get to be number 47 back in the United States I'm going to work on the last chapter of the Bible, OK. We're going to really make it a big bang, it's going to be big, it's going to be the biggest bang ever, it's going to be the end of the world and you can say that I did it so that's the way it goes."
Mimicking Trump's signature hairdo and dressed in a black dinner jacket, tied together with a baseball cap and tinted shades, Long briefly stepped onto the iconic red carpet outside the Palais des Festivals, impersonating the former president.
Festival director Thierry Fremaux briefly passed the camera operator on the red carpet before security escorted the Trump impersonator away to check his I.D., allowing him to keep filming afterwards.
The stunt came just before the premiere of "The Apprentice," Iran-born director Ali Abbasi's biographical drama detailing a young Trump's ascendancy as a New York real estate mogul in the 1970s and '80s.
The picture is one of 22 films in competition for the film festival's top prize, the prestigious Palme d'Or, which will be announced on May 25.
