Actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has teased his next project, which appears to have the intention of sending up US President Donald Trump and his affiliated Trump University brand.
Cohen’s last film Grimsby was released back in 2016, but he enjoyed far greater success with the likes of Borat (2006), Brüno (2009), Ali G Indahouse (2002) and The Dictator (2012).
He appeared to launch his next project on Wednesday (July 4) with a video posted on Twitter to mark Independence Day in the US, with the clip heavily suggesting that his next film will take aim at Trump.

A message from your President @realDonaldTrump on Independence Day pic.twitter.com/O2PwZqO0cs

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) July 4, 2018

“He’s back,” the trailer promises, “as you’ve never seen him before.” The words are interspersed with a “Happy Fourth of July” message from Trump and footage of the President saying “Sacha Baron Cohen, go to school! Learn about being funny.”
“Sacha graduates soon,” the teaser says, ending with a title card for Trump University that uses the actual logo for the defunct real estate training school.
Trump, however, is an old foe of Cohen. The pair first met back in 2003, when Cohen booked the business mogul for The Ali G Show, interviewing Trump while in character as Ali G.
After being asked for input on a business idea by the character (ice cream gloves) Trump decides to cut things off.
Trump has said he was the only person to immediately walk out of his interview with Baron Cohen’s “Ali G.,” but Baron Cohen has said he was actually there a comparatively long nine minutes.
Baron Cohen is currently shooting Netflix series “The Spy,” written and directed by Gideon Raff. He was previously set to star in Michael Winterbottom’s “Greed,” about the world of the super-rich, though the project seems to be on hold, reports Variety.com.