Trump brands Sacha Baron Cohen a ‘creep’ after ‘Borat's daughter’ gets in White House without security checks
President Donald Trump has branded Sacha Baron Cohen an "unfunny creep" after he pranked his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani as part of the latest Borat movie. The commander-in-chief also slammed the British comedian as a "phony" after an actress was able to slip past White House security, The Sun reported. Trump slammed Cohen on Friday before Giuliani was forced to explain why his hands were down his trousers while with "Borat's daughter" in a controversial clip of the new film that went viral online.
Trump very careful who he let into his events and house. No Covid test necessary - High 5! pic.twitter.com/Kf5gGk3n2M
— Borat (@BoratSagdiyev) October 23, 2020
The former New York mayor was lured into a fake interview with an attractive and seductive woman for the upcoming mockumentary 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.'
Trump was asked about the clip while speaking to journalists aboard Air Force One. "I don't know what happened," he responded. "But years ago, you know, he tried to scam me. And I was the only one who said no way. That's a phony guy. And I don't find him funny."
Trump said the encounter took place about 15 years ago. "To me, he was a creep," the president added, without providing further details about that incident. He was likely referring to a 2003 interview Cohen staged while playing the character of wannabe gangster 'Ali G'. During that interview, the comedian pitched a business idea to the then-real estate mogul -- special gloves for eating ice cream -- but Trump quickly realized it was an act and ended the interview.
Nonetheless, security concerns have been raised after an actress gained entry to the White House as part of the new Borat film, which is a sequel to the 2006 Borat original. In the new film, Giuliani is seen on a bed with his hand down his trousers after the young actress helps him remove the recording equipment. After the image went viral, the former NYC Mayor tweeted to say that his conduct was not at any time "inappropriate" and that Cohen was a "stone-cold liar."
Rudy...
— Jack Nance (@JackNance11) October 24, 2020
Maybe "relentless exposure" isn't the phrase you want to use right now. pic.twitter.com/6DMRMqbsZv
"The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment. At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar," he wrote.
(1) The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 21, 2020
At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.
Giuliani also told his followers he had "called the police" over the matter and that this was a "distraction" from the controversy surrounding Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden and his overseas business dealings. "This is an effort to blunt my relentless exposure of the criminality and depravity of Joe Biden and his entire family. Deadline Hollywood reports CAA had a distribution screening in September where there was no mention of the scene holding any importance," he added.
(3) This is an effort to blunt my relentless exposure of the criminality and depravity of Joe Biden and his entire family.
— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) October 21, 2020
Deadline Hollywood reports CAA had a distribution screening in September where there was no mention of the scene holding any importance.
Another scene, which is not in the movie but was shared on Twitter by the comedian, shows Borat's "15-year-old" daughter coming within feet of the president and even shaking hands with his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.
The clip -- shared on Borat's official Twitter account -- features Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, who plays 'Tutar' and appears to be in the same room as the POTUS in the White House. Meanwhile, a voice-over says "no need for security checks or COVID test, they boring." Posing as a TV journalist, Tutar even asks one reporter, "Why is all the fake journalists for the left and none on the right?"
That said, the White House is yet to respond to the apparent security breach.