Donald and Me
Michael Moore working on Trump documentary,
Michael Moore was one of few liberals who predicted Donald Trump’s victory last November and he isn’t done, yet. He’s making another prognostication and this time he’s actively working to make it come true.
“I’m making a movie to get us out of this mess,” the filmmaker wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday. “Fahrenheit 11/9. I’ve f---ing had it.”
That title is a callback to the 2004 documentary he made about George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Fahrenheit 9/11, which is still the highest-grossing documentary of all time. The 11/9 of the new title refers to Nov. 9, the date Trump was declared winner of the U.S. presidential election.
In a statement, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who acquired the movie, said the film may be the “key in dissolving Trump’s ‘Teflon’ shield and, in turn, his presidency.”
The film is still in production and Moore isn’t divulging details, so it’s hard to say what his team has dug up that’s giving them so much confidence.
But is Moore really the guy who’s going to take down a president? Let’s not forget, he’s tried before.
Moore made no secret of his motivations with Fahrenheit 9/11 back in 2004. “I would like to see Mr. Bush removed from the White House,” Moore said on This Week With George Stephanopoulos that year.
And yet Bush was elected to a second term, beating John Kerry.
Will Moore be thwarted again? Maybe, but the filmmaker can rest easy knowing he’s done everything he can to take down a man he’s called a racist, misogynist authoritarian.