Rise and fall of Trump
WILL there be a movie about the moves being made to impeach former US president Donald Trump for a second time?
This story hasn’t reached a conclusion, I felt, watching Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford play the Washington Post reporters, Car Bernstein and Bob Woodward, in the 1976 film, All the President’s Men.
President Nixon resigned, of course, on August 9, 1974, before he could be impeached for the cover-up after the Watergate burglary. I was reminded of the days when the news desk was staffed entirely by elderly white men in shirtsleeves and reporters wrote their stories on typewriters. I thought I would watch five minutes of the film, but couldn’t tear myself away.
The paper’s editor, Ben Bradlee, was played brilliantly by Jason Robards in All the President’s Men,
and equally convincingly by Tom Hanks in 2017 in The Post, which depicts the previous run-in the paper had with Nixon over its disclosure of the Pentagon papers in 1971.
These are two of my favourite films. I still remember my one meeting with Bradlee. Like David English of the Daily Mail,
Bradlee remains a newspaper legend.
Sooner or later, Hollywood will tackle the rise and fall of Trump.