CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The Hollywood Reporter reviews the coming Trump biopic:

Liberals will see it as a stomach-churning making-of-a-monster account while the MAGA faithful might conceivably misconstrue it as an endorsement of their guy, who has made the killer instinct his brand. That’s not to say the movie’s political sympathies are unclear. But if the Trump years have taught us anything, it’s that truth is elastic and perception can be skewed to whatever angle is most expedient.

It stretches from the crooked end of the Nixon years, a boon for sourness and cynicism, through the Reagan presidency and the ascendancy of corporate greed. That time span consecrated the supremacy of the “winner” and the contemptuous mockery of the “loser,” one of the most obnoxious commonplace denigrations in American life. The chief tenet Trump learns from Roy Cohn takes the distinction one step further, asserting that the world is divided into killers and losers.

Read the full review. There’s a lot there. Earlier today the Trump campaign vowed to sue the filmmakers, but presumably not one of its financial backers, a Trump megadonor who now says he was duped about the film’s content.

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— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 20, 2024