It’s certainly not yet January 2021, after Individual-1 loses, and resigns in order for Mike Pence to pardon him prior to the inauguration of the 47th(sic) POTUS.
Until then we can only hope that History will intervene and discover how much the US has been pwned by foreign powers and subverted from within by the GOP, “promoting ethnic and social inferiority”.
However far away, we can speculate about the end of the Trump regime, especially now that The Death of Stalin (2017) is in wider distribution (it’s on Showtime).
(March 2018) Someday in the not-too-distant future, you’ll be sitting in the dark of a multiplex as a trailer plays for the first big-budget movie rendering of the Donald Trump administration. No doubt there will be laughs, gasps, boos, and intense online debates about whether it’s too soon to turn our collective nightmare into silver-screen fodder.
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That's not because of any overt comparison between Stalin (a highly effective totalitarian despot who executed and exiled millions) and Trump (an incompetent wannabe despot who is merely deporting millions). It's because the movie focuses on the next rung down the ladder from the Dear Leader: the loyal lackeys and family members who were complicit in his reign of terror, and who are left flailing and fighting when it's over.
In other words, it's the movie Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the entire GOP caucus need to see right goddamn now.
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It’s not like Trump’s passing hasn’t been alluded to before, much to the distress of some peculiar RWNJs.
(June 2017) Once again, the decadent coastal elites are scoffing at the president of the United States. As Fox News breathlessly reported Sunday under the headline “NYC Play Appears to Depict Assassination of Trump,” sophisticated New Yorkers are enjoying a so-called “play” in which an character who looks like Donald Trump is stabbed to death. Making things even more outrageous, this production has been paid for in part with taxpayer dollars! As Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth plaintively asked, “Is this not a responsibility for the public to say, ‘If you can use our dollars to depict the assassination of the president, we’re not going to stand for that’?”
It’s appalling on its face that a playwright would try to cash in on the left’s current unhealthy obsession with Donald Trump—it’s like they never shut up about him!—but doing it with what is essentially Donald Trump’s money seems especially pernicious. As members of the Fourth Estate, Slate staff take their journalistic responsibilities seriously, and, like Fox News, we believe those responsibilities consist chiefly of finding new ways to make old people angry. But Fox News didn’t tell the whole story: If you want to find out exactly which play those loony leftists are using to mock our president, you have to read the article carefully, which can sometimes be challenging. So in the interest of public knowledge and, more importantly, public fury, Slate has obtained a copy of the disgusting assassination scene from this “theatrical performance” and is publishing it in its entirety. If the playwright—one “William Shakespeare”—wants to come after us for violating his copyright, we look forward to seeing him in court; maybe he can explain under oath why he hates Donald Trump so much.
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There will be a stampede to do the Trump biopic / TV mini-series as much as there will be competition from RW Hollywood types — imagine that meeting taken between Steve Bannon and Steve Mnuchin if they aren’t yet behind bars.
Trump and/or his natural/unnatural heirs will sue over rights to the image revealed by which ever text(s) will be the source material, whether it’s a treatment of Bob Woodward’s Fear or any number of tell-alls like Fire and Fury.
After Dan Rather tweeted out a suggestion that Martin Scorsese should take charge of Trump: The Movie…
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As much as the narrative around Trump often resembles a grand tragedy in the making, it just as often comes off as pitch-black farce. The desperate dimwits, grotesque weirdos and sleazy schlemiels and schlimazels that fill out Trumpworld would feel right at home in Fargo, Burn After Reading or The Hudsucker Proxy, while the shabby criminal enterprises they continuously find themselves undone by are as convoluted as the plot of The Big Lebowski. There’s nobody better at wrangling this type of hyperreal chaos into something meaningful as Joel and Ethan Coen, even if their miscreants are more lovable, or at least more pitiable, than the likes of Steven Bannon or Anthony Scaramucci.
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Until then we can laugh a bit however darkly, and even as the horror of the Stalin era makes Trumpian complicity in the murder of journalist(s) and the kidnapping of children seem so much more banal by comparison. We will feel that same “terror and disgust” regardless of any media meditation on the stupidity of Trumpism.
"Did Coco Chanel take a shit on your head?"
In the USSR in 1953, General Secretary Joseph Stalin is listening to a concert on the radio and orders that a recording of it be delivered to him. The concert has to be hurriedly repeated and recorded, but the pianist, Maria Yudina, hides a note to Stalin in the sleeve of the record, saying he has ruined the country. As Stalin reads the note in his dacha, he suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and becomes paralysed. The members of the Central Committee are alerted. The first to arrive are Interior Ministry(NKVD) head Lavrentiy Beria, who discovers Yudina's note, and Deputy General Secretary Georgy Malenkov. As Malenkov panics, Beria encourages him to take the leadership, hoping to use him as a puppet.
Moscow Party Head Nikita Khrushchev arrives with the rest of the Committee, except for Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, whom Stalin had added to one of his lists of enemies the previous night. Beria closes off Moscow, has the NKVD take over city security duties from the Soviet Army, and replaces Stalin's enemy lists with his own, reprieving Molotov. Khrushchev and Beria struggle for symbolic victories, including control over Stalin's daughter, Svetlana, and his unstable son, Vasily.
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