Trump: Documentary The Donald Suppressed, Free At Last

[Her Sister]

1. They just made available recently

Until now, the film had been shown only four times. The first two audiences totaled about 70 people, including me. The two other showings occurred in Bridgehampton, Long Island at the Community Center on July 3, 1991. More than a thousand people turned out, with many sitting in the aisles as fire marshals watched and police directed traffic outside.

I spotted only two flaws in the film. One was bollixing a subtle financial detail. The other was the unqualified assertion that among news organizations, “no one asked the hard questions,” even though Wayne Barrett in The Village Voice and this reporter, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, did just that.

The film shows how greed, hubris and mistakes humbled Trump, ever so briefly, 25 years ago. It also examines his lack of real friends, and shows that both the old money crowd in Palm Beach and some of America’s leading entertainers, including Jerry Seinfeld and the late Christopher Reeve, found him oleaginous.

Reeve describes Trump’s efforts to build the world’s tallest building, which would have cast long shadows over the Upper West Side of New York and Central Park, as “the American dream gone berserk.”

The film’s opening narration explains the reasons for making it available now, a quarter-century after Trump’s threats of litigation kept it from being broadcast: “We think it’s time for you to see it — because the old Trump and the new Trump are the same Trump.”

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