Sacha Baron Cohen hates Donald Trump. Since 2003, when Cohen cosplayed as his infamous character Ali G in an interview with the future president, the feeling has clearly been mutual. But Cohen certainly does not hate Trump’s supporters.
The blockbuster headline to emerge from Cohen’s new sequel to the seminal comedy Borat is that his protege, the Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, managed to finagle Rudy Giuliani into a booze-filled hotel interview while she pretended to be Borat’s daughter — pretending to be a conservative journalist. Contrary to the initial scoops claiming that Giuliani was caught with his hands in his pants, literally, the scene is more notable for the president’s personal attorney’s blissful recklessness. It’s also an anti-climactic climax to a plot that is secondary to the point of the story.
