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The book is an imaginative vehicle fusing fact and satire into a relatable narrative about our collective failure to resist Donald Trump’s destructive forces. While a metaphoric style is appropriate to explain the many facets of Donald Trump by examining movie themes/scene comparisons, this is by no means a fictional book. I have tapped into a vast collection of news reports and editorials, opinions from nonfiction authors, major news sources, and congressional documents, reporting the political intrigue and bizarre events that have unfolded over the past eight years. 

My purpose is to help solve the problem of Donald Trump information overload by cutting through the gobs of stuff written about the Trump rampage and try to uncomplicate it: make it plain. Movie comparisons put pertinent facts worth recalling or retelling into an entertaining kaleidoscope of relatable images. While these parodies can be viewed as fantasy, I adopt the premise that anything is possible. “The disclosure of truth sometime requires something out-of-the-expected to sound a blast of reality.” The book provides insight into the history of racism and its impact on BIPOC communities which Donald Trump exploited to amass his minions and wage a Civil War. 

The attack from the Trump World, commanded by Donald Trump is viewed through the movie War of the Worlds (2005) — “The machines were underground all the time.” The imagery of gigantic spaceships and towering alien tripod machines emerging from the earth and destroying the countryside are metaphors for the threat to democracy and the emergence of authoritarianism in this country. Like hearing a foghorn in the mist, his minions, who were embedded in the core of our country many years ago, now rise to obey Trump’s signals. They are the machines and the battering rams needed to invade us and achieve his authoritarian goal. From The Donald’s spaceship view, he is the master-builder, the owner and the creator of Trump World. 

To explain the origins or genesis of Donald Trump’s behavior, I looked at the movie The Omen (1976) — “His father groomed him to grow the Trump empire.” But he had no way to suspect that The Donald would become the purveyor of American carnage.  Although the submerged machines enabled the terrorist war, the movie The Omen helps explain the mind of The Donald and how this person came into being. Both movies War of the Worlds and The Omen create the framework for assigning the term “monster," but Trump wasn’t built by a mad scientist. Readers will be able to grasp the mind-boggling fact that everything he is embodies the essence of our society. I am not the first person, by far, to characterize Trump as an alien, monster or monstrosity. “Captain Chaos”, “Screaming Carrot Demon”, “Godzilla” with less foreign policy experience, “Tangerine Tornado”, “Creep Throat”, and “Trumplethinskin” are just a few more colorful terms some have suggested.  Author Hugh Scott, a registered Republican, wrote a book that called Trump, The GOP’s Frankenstein Monster. Many movies have retold the Mary Shelley’sclassic novel in which the unholy creation – the monster- rampages through the town and is eventually cornered and destroyed in the Frankenstein castle. Harry Reid, then Senate Minority Leader took onto the floor of the Senate a sign that read, “Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster,” and called out the Republicans forstoking the fires ofresentment and hatred in the country which empowered The Donald. “The ultimate fulfillment of the Republican Party’s legacy of obstruction and resentment,” Reid stated. Professor Rick Sanchez raised the question, “Is Donald Trump an Alien?” To explain the reign of Trump, Trumpism and the evolution of the Republicult, requires examining the alien force that emerged and challenged the total fabric of the world order as we know it. 

While I am not promoting the belief that Trump is an actual alien form, this book does unmask a mastermind of criminal behavior which is otherworldly. The Trump World is one of the strangest theatrical spectacles of the century. Blazing across TV screens and social media with deception, lies, oppositional defiance, betrayal, disinformation, rage, political warfare, racism, white nationalism, alternate facts, racketeering, intimidation, and insurrection; the juxtaposition between moral man — president of the United States — and Donald Trump a criminal mastermind, is riveting. Implicit comparisons are made in each chapter between the movie characters and Donald Trump’s TV events. The reality show actor is a disguise or outward appearance of a man — an artificial person who the people chose to represent them and now are bound to let him speak for them. He is given the full authority to exploit his followers; essentially bilking his own people out of whatever they have and holding the fate of millions of people in his hands. 

Renown physicist Stephen Hawking stoked our fears of “summoning the demon” through the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Hawking predicted “Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete,” orcontrol A.I. machines if they threaten the very survival of the human race. With that prediction as a backdrop, this book takes the reader on a ride through The Matrix movie franchise drawing parallels between the artificial condition of the Trump cult worshippers and humankind’s fragile relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) depicted in the four movies. The need to replace a vibrant multi-racial democracy with a synthetic society, a mass illusion called “whiteocracy,” ushers in the irreversible dominance of a techno horror — A.I. machines. Granted, this dystopian world is presented in satiric scenes and exaggerated images, the parallels with the actual Trump World are not farfetched. 

The GOP’s love affair with former president Ronald Reagan put the concept of an illusionist as president of the United States on our TV screens on a daily basis. Reagan was the master illusionist who honed his skills on the silver screen as an actor in Hollywood during the 1940’s and 50’s. Often referred to as “the greatest president of modern times,” he sold his Hollywood identity to Washington just as Trump sold his reality TV show character to his right-wing conservative base. While illusionists perform magic tricks to entertain audiences, what they actually do is distort our perceptions through misdirection and a strong use of psychological suggestions. The whole work of an illusionist revolves around showmanship which is nothing but the skill of performing and presenting things in an entertaining and dramatic way. Both of these former presidents made this type of showmanship one of the skills required for holding the office. 

Fantasy is where The Donald lives, he’s stuck in a reality show loop. Timothy L. O’Brien revealed in a POLITICO article that Donald Trump had a passion for the Hollywood scene and considered becoming a movie producer. "He loves film, and he has this very cinematic sense of himself,” O’Brien wrote. “Every time, he sort of grimaces into the lens, I think he thinks of himself as an actor in his own drama, in his own western.” The idea of examining Donald Trump’s reality show war and drawing comparisons to fictional movies seems very appropriate. It is appropriate to examine The Donald’s rise to power, self-characterization as a world leader and his war on America through the movie lens. 

Perhaps, the most chilling pictures of Donald Trump are revealed through the comparisons drawn through documentaries and movies produced about the demonic-mass-killer Rev. Jim Jones, failed leader of Jonestown, Guyana, who brain-washed 900 members of his church orchestrating their suicides. In a True Crime fashion, the serial patterns of Jones and Trump referenced in this book are eye-opening and shocking— narcissistic and sociopathic traits and behaviors, delving in dangerous conspiracy theories, fetishes for chaos and violence, predatory cruelty, anti-human values, and firebrand, death speeches are all part of the extensive analysis.