Michael Moore: That's why he considers Donald Trump a "performance artist"
How could it have come this far, since the election of Donald Trump (72) to the US president certainly many have asked. Cult director Michael Moore (64, "Fahrenheit 9/11") now gives the answer in his new movie "Fahrenheit 11/9".
In the documentary Moore explains, for example, who is really to blame for the fact that Trump has even put up for presidential candidate: Gwen Stefani (48, "Hollaback Girl")! As Moore said "New York Post", Trump could not believe that the singer as "The Voice" -Jurorin earned more on the station NBC than he on his show "The Apprentice".
To strengthen his negotiating position, so to speak, he claimed to stand for election. "He planned a fake announcement to run for president ... just to prove to NBC that his popularity is even higher than Gwen's and that they should give him more money," Moore said. Which probably nobody could guess: The plan worked.
"One of the greatest performance artists of our time"
Moore also told the "Hollywood Reporter" about his first encounter with Trump on the Roseanne Barr (65) show in 1998. So Trump got up and left when he saw that Moore was also loaded. The producer of the show asked Michael Moore to persuade Trump to stay. He did so, assuring him that he would remain nice and not address Trump's "dark issues" - like his current bankruptcy.
It worked, Trump sat down again at a table with the documentary filmmaker. It became clear at that moment: "He had deceived me." Moore explains, "He's been doing it all his life, he knows what he needs to do to create a situation where I feel bad, because he feels bad, and Roseanne can not do her show he tried to save the situation - he had manipulated the whole situation, and I realized he was not an idiot, he is not stupid, in fact he is one of the greatest performance artists of our time. "
