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Trump's proposed 2020 slogan is familiar because it's the exact tagline from 'The Purge: Election'
http://mashable.com/2017/01/18/the-purge-trump-2020/It makes sense that the man who ran for President with the slogan "Make America great again" would pursue reelection with "Keep America Great." Unfortunately for Donald Trump, that slogan was already used in 2016 by the great folks behind The Purge: Election Year.
"Get me my lawyer!" Trump called during an interview with The Washington Post, and it wasn't to start suing the team behind Election Year for the slogan that they came up with first, but to trademark and register "Keep America Great" (exclamation point optional) for 2020.
The Purge film trilogy takes place in an alternate reality where all crimes are legal for one day a year. The annual Purge keeps crime rates down for the rest of the year, but promises one night of inevitable terror. In Election Year, a smart blonde senator insists that the Purge must end for the good of the country.
Before its release, writer James DeMonaco told Entertainment Weekly that parallels between the film and the 2016 election were not accidental. At the time the "Keep America Great" tagline was a direct response to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. Time is a flat circle.
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"Get me my lawyer!" Trump called during an interview with The Washington Post, and it wasn't to start suing the team behind Election Year for the slogan that they came up with first, but to trademark and register "Keep America Great" (exclamation point optional) for 2020.
The Purge film trilogy takes place in an alternate reality where all crimes are legal for one day a year. The annual Purge keeps crime rates down for the rest of the year, but promises one night of inevitable terror. In Election Year, a smart blonde senator insists that the Purge must end for the good of the country.
Before its release, writer James DeMonaco told Entertainment Weekly that parallels between the film and the 2016 election were not accidental. At the time the "Keep America Great" tagline was a direct response to Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. Time is a flat circle.
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