Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Trump’s Use Of ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Clips Criticized By Matthew Modine, But Stanley Kubrick’s Daughter Says Former POTUS “Has My Blessing”
deadline.comThe Donald Trump presidential campaign’s use clips from Stanley Kubrick‘s 1987 Oscar nominated Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket has polarized those close to the pic indeed, with the late filmmaker’s daughter Vivian Kubrick declaring “Trump has my blessing” to the pic’s star Matthew Modine blasting in EW that the former POTUS has turned the anti-war feature “into a perverse, homophobic, and manipulative tool of propaganda.” Trump’s recent rallies have begun using the video below which include Full Metal Jacket actor R.
Lee Emery’s tough, racist and vulgar ridden Marine Sargeant blasting Modine’s Private Joker. Those bits are labeled “THEN”. This is followed by clips that show support for the LGBTQ+ in the military captioned “NOW” and “THE BIDEN HARRIS MILITARY.” The propaganda video ends with shot from Full Metal Jacket before the recruits are sent to Vietnam, with the saying “LET’S MAKE OUR MILITARY GREAT AGAIN.” Trump has railed against the acceptance of transgender people, and the use of pronouns.
He former POTUS received medical deferments during Vietnam even though he attended high school at New York Military Academy.
WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs Modine told EW in a statement today: “In the 1930s, Leni Riefenstahl directed the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympia.” “These two films are considered among the most effective propaganda ever made.
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