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McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 06:45 PM Jan 2017

Guess What Trump's Favorite Film Is?

I was thinking about what has been happening and Trump's outrageous behavior and how he seems to be actively participating in the meltdown of his career in politics, and it suddenly occurred to me "Trump is playing some freaky version of Charles Foster Kane from some weird personal misinterpretation of the film."

Keep in mind that in modern America, we all see ourselves as characters in films, just as people used to use fairy tales as archetypes. Bill Clinton's foes would have done well to make note of the fact that his favorite movie was High Noon--meaning he was just waiting for a whole bunch of bad guys to try to take him on.

I decided to look it up online to see if my hunch was correct. And it was. Trump loves Citizen Kane. And he thinks that what happened to Kane was a "modest fall." And that he needed a better woman. Making it all about love. And everyone knows that we love a character in direction proportion to the amount of love he shows for someone or something else. Poor little rich boy. He loved others so much that he tried to save them. And his political foes shot him down. And that made him an even greater man. The End. Roll credits.

Here is a link.

http://www.indiewire.com/2016/11/donald-trump-misinterprets-citizen-kane-interview-1201747615/

Be sure to watch the video link. I now believe that Trump is actively seeking his own political ruin out of some misguided desire to emulate Charles Foster Kane. That he never divested because he never really intended to do this job for more than a brief time. That he took advantage of millions of Americans, putting their livelihoods at stake so that he could act out a narcissistic fantasy.

What a tool.

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Guess What Trump's Favorite Film Is? (Original Post) McCamy Taylor Jan 2017 OP
Triumph of the Will n/t tammywammy Jan 2017 #1
Hey Trump! Rosebud this !! rickford66 Jan 2017 #2
Wizard of Oz of course. Sneederbunk Jan 2017 #3
Friday the 13th. nt raccoon Jan 2017 #4
He loves gangster and violent movies. #1 in-flight movie on his private jet is Bloodsport. dalton99a Jan 2017 #5
Bullshit. He just thinks that makes him sound smart NightWatcher Jan 2017 #6
great post. starshine00 Jan 2017 #7

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
6. Bullshit. He just thinks that makes him sound smart
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 08:24 PM
Jan 2017

He was watching Finding Dory while protesters marched outside the White House.

 

starshine00

(531 posts)
7. great post.
Sun Jan 29, 2017, 08:36 PM
Jan 2017

Honestly I can see that he might thing that having to abide by all these regulations when doing business would be a complete drag. I can see how he would want to get these christian billionaires in his pocket. He can lift the sanctions on Russia, give Putin his pipeline, collect his kickback, and still start his cable show. Sigh...

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