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Speaking of cash-ins, the real estate mogul used these appearances to promote his brand: Trump nearly always played himself, with surrounding characters often stating his name in awe (“That’s Donald Trump!”) and remarking on his wealth. He reveled in the attention. Though Trump was a world-famous billionaire, he made himself quite available whenever an opportunity to appear on camera presented itself—even in B-movies like the ghost-sex disaster Ghosts Can’t Do It. “He wasn’t a hard get,” says one veteran producer. “I think you can tell that as long as that gentleman got to play himself, he was up for most shows.”

On set, his temperament was often not so agreeable. Interviews with the directors and producers who worked with him reveal erratic and sometimes obnoxious behavior while filming. He threw a fit backstage during a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air shoot, for instance, and got extra cozy with female models on the set of the film 54. “As a producer, I found him incredibly pompous,” says Eric Kopeloff, who worked with Trump for an ill-fated cameo in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Kim Dempster, a filmmaker who directed him in a 2004 movie, found him to be rude and casually sexist. And Madeline Zima, the young actress from the ’90s sitcom The Nanny, says Trump tried to hit on her 19-year-old caretaker when he appeared on the show in 1996.

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