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mainer

(12,188 posts) Sun Dec 27, 2020, 09:44 AM Dec 2020

WW84 has Trump as villain!

Pedro Pascal plays a failed businessman, conman, and media personality who acquires Presidential powers and looks exactly like a young Donald Trump. The movie is so-so but te Trumpian character is wildly entertaining.

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WW84 has Trump as villain! (Original Post) mainer Dec 2020 OP

There's a reference to Trump in "Scrooged." thucythucy Dec 2020 #1

Maxwell Lord was always a parody of Wall Street types in the comics Clash City Rocker Dec 2020 #2

Boring movie - too long, mixed plot lines, too many errors packman Dec 2020 #3

Trump himself is a stereotype. It would be hard to create a villain that is not Trumpy. Midnight Writer Dec 2020 #4

thucythucy

(8,742 posts)

1. There's a reference to Trump in "Scrooged."

Reply to mainer (Original post)

Sun Dec 27, 2020, 10:07 AM

Dec 2020

Bill Murray's character is sent into a sewer by the ghost of Christmas present. Finding himself in this dank, freezing, filthy place below the streets of NYC he says something like, "Looks like Trump Tower."

This of course was years before 2016.