![]() “Perhaps if they came up with another word that meant the same thing, it wouldn’t have worked,” he says. ![]() I’m not sure if anyone really understands the significance,” Trump says, before remarking on the effectiveness of the word as a symbol. He muses briefly about Kane’s famous last word, “Rosebud.” “A lot of people don’t really understand the significance of it. He adds that “in real life, I believe that wealth does isolate you from others it’s a protective mechanism.” “Perhaps I can understand that-the relationship that he had was not a good one for him,” the thrice-married Trump says of Kane’s declining relationship with his wife. As he describes the film, Trump comes close to doing something unusual-he engages in self-reflection. At the end of the accumulation, you see what happens, and it’s not necessarily all positive,” Trump says, in what is fair to describe as an understatement. “ Citizen Kane was really about accumulation. ![]() In fact, Trump was such a big fan of the movie that he filmed a short video about it, directed by famed documentarian Errol Morris. He thought everybody was a moron, everybody was this, everybody was that if he had a budget he’d exceed it by 20 times and destroy everything. He was like this great genius that after 26, never did it. “I loved Orson Welles,” Trump told Bloomberg’s Timothy O’Brien. This post was originally published as part of “ The Trump Files“-a collection of telling episodes, strange but true stories, and curious scenes from the life of our current president-on August 12, 2016.ĭonald Trump’s favorite movie is Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about a publishing tycoon mogul who surrounds himself with material luxury but struggles to find happiness. Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.
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