{"id":478,"date":"2013-11-16T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2026-10-05T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:46:21","slug":"errol-morris-donald-trump-on-citizen-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Errol Morris: Donald Trump on Citizen Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/08_2007\/trump_kane3.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/trump_kane.jpg\" alt=\"trump_kane\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/08_2007\/trump_kane3.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump on Citizen Kane (2004, 40.2MB, 3:22 min.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.errolmorris.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Errol Morris<\/a>.<br \/>\n&#8216;The last thing one would imagine Donald Trump talking about is Citizen Kane,<br \/>\nwhat many believe to the greatest film ever made, but here he is talking about<br \/>\nin one of the aborted projects by Errol Morris \u2014 like he has lived it, like he is a<br \/>\nreincarnation of Charles Foster Kane. The beauty is not just in the Errol Morris<br \/>\nmeditative style or even what Trump has to say about Citizen Kane but what we<br \/>\nwant to see. Mainly, that Trump\u2019s life mirrors that of Kane and that this real life<br \/>\nepic character sees his own tragedy.<br \/>\nTalking about wealth, he says &#8216;In real life, wealth does in fact isolate you from other<br \/>\npeople\u2026it is a protective mechanism&#8217;. That quote speaks volumes. The salesman is<br \/>\npoking holes into his much marketed life. Asked on what advice he would give<br \/>\nCharles Foster Kane, Trump says boldly: &#8216;Get yourself a different woman!&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump on Citizen Kane (2004, 40.2MB, 3:22 min.) by Errol Morris. &#8216;The last thing one would imagine Donald Trump talking about is Citizen Kane, what many believe to the greatest film ever made, but here he is talking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,17,62,24,37,45,101,21,47,22,43,39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-community","category-controversy","category-documentary","category-historical","category-humor","category-identity","category-interview","category-observational","category-politics","category-portraiture","category-strange","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11898,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}