The Trump Prophecy

This is the sixth movie (out of 930) that I've awarded a single star. It is truly awful.

I should point out that I'm not really a Trump fan and a lapsed Christian. I've always found the Christian support of Trump somewhat puzzling since he seems to me to be one of the least Christian people you could ever wish to meet.

Anyway the film tells the story of a firefighter Mark Taylor who suffering from PTSD has a prophecy that Trump will become president. This is played out through the first part of the movie and there is undoubtedly an interesting story in it. Anyway unfortunately that was ignored in favour of pushing christian and right wing rhetoric. The second half of the film was an uncomfortable watch and I have no doubt many people would struggle to make it to the end of the film. Anyway I did make it to the end of the film, so I'm comfortable with awarding it with 1 star.

"For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."

We went to this - It was like 3 movies - all of them bad - although the first part, the firefighter who is told by God that God wants Trump, was not just propagandistic, but it was so slow and poorly done. Designed to make people afraid so that they are receptive to the ideas put forth in the next two sections - which run like slick ads for going to war - (they sacrificed themselves and now it is our turn music playing to a bunch of pictures of folks with loved ones in frames who fought wars), and then the final part which is a bunch of interviews with mostly white guys talking about the founding father's setting forth a Christian state (they did not - they were secular humanists) and Capitalism (which is an economic system and not a political system) being the political system of the US. Most of this was just manipulative propaganda.

This blatant propaganda piece was so bad, it changed me from a lurker to an actual reviewer on this website for the first time in over a decade. Acting was atrocious, the dialogue was delivered with the same gusto of a middle school play, and that's not even touching on the subject matter.

Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs. Hard stop. As long as you are not bothering me or someone I love, or interfering with the freedom of others, I could care less what you believe.

It's really hard to apply that philosophy when you are dealing with a dangerous cult that is wanting to transform society to reflect their own narrow interpretation of a 3000-year-old text.

"Movies" like these are designed to appeal to the ignorant and uneducated, stir up their hostilities through their confirmation biases, and have them walk away from the experience more deeply entrenched in their bubbles, ready to take on "the libs". That term, of course, has slowly transformed over the course of the years to mean every single person that does not 100% agree with them.

This movie was physically painful to watch, and even more agonizing knowing that other people were buying into it hook, line, and sinker. These are sad times, friends.

If I could give it less that one I would. One of the worst movies I've seen in the past ten years and I've seen a lot of awful movies.

Didn't make it to the end.