Donald Trump plays Citizen Kane to perfection

[FLPanhandle]

In Citizen Kane, Orson Welles plays a newspaper tycoon who is running for public office. On the eve of the election results he has two headlines prepared for the morning edition of his paper. The first welcomes his victory, the second cries “Fraud at the Polls”. Sounds familiar?

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Friend posted this on Facebook and I thought it was perfect.

[Solly Mack]

1. Wonder what Trump's "Rosebud' is...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

3. A little girl named Rosie Bude that he loved, who slapped him before...

... Trump's father sent him away to military school.

[murielm99]

2. Welles was a lot better looking.

[tyne]

4. His favorite movie..

Really.


How Trump’s Favorite Movie Explains Him
The GOP nominee-presumptive is an American archetype out of Citizen Kane. If only he understood the film’s point better.

Citizen Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He’s a character type with a long history in America—the narcissistic, acquisitive magnate who, in the words of Orson Welles, is “interested in imposing his will” on the country in what is, in the end, just another act of self-aggrandizement. That was Welles’ description of Charles Foster Kane, the protagonist in his classic Citizen Kane, which Trump identified back in 1992 as his “all-time favorite movie,” an endorsement he repeated in his interview with Megyn Kelly in May. Early in the movie, the character Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), who was once Kane’s best friend, sums him up as follows: “I don’t suppose anybody ever had so many opinions. But he never believed in anything except Charlie Kane. He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life.”

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/donald-trump-2016-citizen-kane-213943#ixzz4Nwvp4vus