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An interesting fact about that timeline is that the writers based it partially on what they thought the world would be like if Trump was president.
by a2dam 2y ago
An interesting fact about that timeline is that the writers based it partially on what they thought the world would be like if Trump was president.
- froh 2y agooh wow. ist that documented somewhere?
- ttyprintk 2y agoLook for Bob Gale, the writer, in Variety magazine.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agohttps://www.thedailybeast.com/back-to-the-future-writer-biff-tannen-is-based-on-donald-trump/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/back-to-the-future-writer-biff...
- ninjin 2y agoI had to try to find a source for Trump being inspiration for Biff as it just sounded "too good" to be true and apparently it has been stated by screenwriter Bob Gale who wrote it together with director Robert Zemeckis: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-future-writer-bad-guy-biff-was-based-on-donald-trump https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/23/back-to-the-fut...
- lazide 2y agoTrump has always been a caricature of the rich asshole. They even made fun of him in a Robocop movie, if I remember correctly.
- OJFord 2y agoIt's funny as a non-US how many (older) films etc. he's mentioned in (or even cameos in), having never heard of him until (not long before) his first term. e.g. I watched American Psycho last night, in which there's some 'is that the Trumps', 'why would Ivanka Trump be here'.
- Timwi 2y agoI can top that. As a child I was a fan of a relatively unknown sitcom titled “Out Of This World” and I rediscovered it a couple years ago. It was truly surreal to hear Donald Trump mentioned in a show from 1987–1991. (American Psycho is from 2000.)
- detritus 2y agoThe novel is from 1991.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoI dont remember how much it carried over to the film but in the book, Trump is the person the titular psycho... > idolizes above all others. Bateman talks about him constantly, citing incredibly specific details of his life of luxury, and is often distracted by the thought of seeing Trump or his wife Ivana out in New York City.
- vidarh 2y agoAt least some of his cameos were down to Trump demanding them in return for the use of locations he owned. E.g. that's the case for Home Alone 2, where he demanded the cameo for the use of The Plaza Hotel: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/real-reason-donald-trump-appears-31745682 https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/real-reason-d...
- djkivi 2y agoTrump was the prototypical 1980s rich person. E.g. see Roger Ebert's Wall Street review: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wall-street-1987 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wall-street-1987
- iszomer 2y agoOr his cameo in the Home Alone 2 film, in the Plaza hotel which he owned.
- davidwritesbugs 2y agoI think Stephen King wrote a novel about a US president who was a crook trying to trigger WW3. Based on Trump he said. Had one of the Sheens in it.
- ioblomov 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(film) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Zone_(film)
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- naasking 2y agoWhich is ironic, because Trump seems pretty against war on the whole.
- DaftDank 2y agoHe says that, but what do you call being aggressive and hostile to allies -- i.e. threatening military force to take the Panama Canal and Greenland -- while aligning with Russia and China, who play the long game and will pretend to be friendly until the moment they see an opening and take it?
- naasking 2y ago1. People think he's crazy, so he's taking advantage of how they underestimate him. 2. He's taking advantage of anchoring bias: he makes a completely outrageous first offer which then makes any subsequent offer seems more reasonable, even if it was higher than you would otherwise accept. He does this all of the time, and it's a standard negotiating tactic in general, but it sometimes works well for Trump because of how people see him (see point 1).
- mrtesthah 2y agoHow is undermining America’s alliances in security and trade with other democracies advantageous? How does that ultimately help us as a county?