Premium Link UpgradeTrump gets AIDS in new Sacha Baron Cohen film — and audiences are standing up and cheering
Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie features a subplot about Donald Trump becoming infected with HIV and then AIDS — and the comedian said he’s troubled by the audience reaction so far.
“We’ve just shown the movie in Germany, Holland, England, around America, Norway, Spain — and when Donald Trump contracts HIV, people are standing up and applauding,” Cohen told Sirius XM’s Entertainment Weekly.
“And, to me, that’s pretty worrying because, if he does become president, the hatred [toward] this guy is so extreme that people will wish ill on him,” he added.
The HIV/AIDS subplot in “The Brothers Grimsby” concerned the studio, Sony, which wanted Cohen to point out to audiences that Trump was not involved in the movie or infected with the virus.
“I refused to say that Donald Trump is not HIV positive,” Cohen said. “I said, ‘I’ve got no idea whether he is.’ Show me your STD card and prove it. He’s had a number of lovers and what I don’t want is, god forbid he is HIV positive, and he ****** with somebody, and I get sued, because they’ve heard in my film that he’s not. So, we were in a battle for quite a while with the studio. There’s a compromise — which you’ll see when you go to see the film.”
Cohen, who is British, found the prospect of a Trump presidency too disturbing to comment.
“Listen, I think there are certain things that you don’t joke about,” he said. “This is a subject that can potentially bring misery and horrific things for millions of people — which is why you shouldn’t vote for him.”
“The Brothers Grimsby” opened Feb. 24 in the United Kingdom, and it will debut Friday in American theaters.
This is scary
I think no one can argue that Obama is receiving a lot of ****, that a lot of hardcore right-wing people are outraged by the fact that the President of the United States of America is black (but I do not think anyone on the board thinks that way) and that many of them would like to se him being shot
I think no one can argue that during his presidency, Georges W. Bush received a lot of ****, mostly from left-wing people (even thought I do not think his haters whished to see him being shot), particulary outside of the US
But if he's elected, Trump would probably receive more **** than these two, both inside and outside of the US.
I'd **** to see Trump becoming the next President, I **** about everything he stands for, everything he says. But I'd never rejoice over him getting a deadly disease, being ********, dying in a car or a plane accident, etc. and I strongly condemn anyone that would do.