The President & The Pandemic – A Movie Review

A Movie Review By Rotten Potatoes

RONALD TRIUMPH

THE PRESIDENT AND THE PANDEMIC

Producer: Revelation Studio

Director: Democrat Tease

Color By: Embarrasse

This X rated movie has topped box offices across the country for most of the year.  It is a tale of greed, graft, and grand standing  –  a response to a global crisis by presidential leadership characterized by personal and political insanity. Here is the story line.

Aside from many of the wealthy , Ronald Triumph’s supporters are a coalition of groups blinded by their sense of being deprived of achieving the so-called America Dream, of having their white supremacist values betrayed, of refusing all information that would threaten their fundamentalist political and religious beliefs, and of having little understanding of the civics of democracy. Triumph has deliberately and negatively intensified these group’s issues.   

In their blindness these followers have failed to recognize that Ronald Triumph is a full-fledged psychopath: Without a social conscience, without empathy, without morals, duplicitous, devious, fraudulent, manipulative, ruthless, ego maniacal, a compulsive liar, a crook and, consistent with the psychopathic personality, a practiced actor. He is driven by illusions of grandeur and the desire for wealth and will do anything, no matter how corrupt or perverse, for fulfillment. He is a scam artist who surrounds himself with leadership lap dogs of like kind.  The only job qualification of his appointees is unbending loyalty to himself and his agenda. Those who deviate are treated to vindictive recompense.  At the core of his being he is a vicious despot only restrained by America’s constitutional straight-jacket   which he constantly defies without penalty.

Triumph has four primary political goals. The first is to remake all federal agencies into advocates for the profit-making of economic imperialism. All of his appointees are vigorously suppressing the common good work of these agencies and seeking to destroy their professional character. The second goal is to transform the federal judicial system into a support team for despotic leadership. He has vigorously overwhelmed the system with radically conservative   appointees and is packing the Supreme Court.  The third goal is to capture the media, use it as a personal propaganda platform, and destroy those who refuse his control. He has expressed total contempt for the traditional media and total support for the fake media. The fourth goal is to undermine public confidence in all government service programs, such as Social Security and health care, so they can be converted into private enterprise. He has withheld financial support of the United States Postal Service, which is under his control, in hopes that it will fail and succumb to privatization.

The ultimate game-plan of these goals is to undermine every agent of government that benefits the common good and dismantle every legal component that places a restraint on presidential power. It is to make the White House into an American Vatican – an unquestioned despotic authority. To show his utter contempt for democracy, Triumph has openly suggested that his supporters vote illegally and has used the White House and federal troops as props for his re-election campaign. He has encouraged Republican officials to suppress the voting ability of minorities who are prone to favor the Democratic Party.

During his first term of office, after he has successfully defied the constitution and centralized his power with the aid of a corrupt and complicit Republican Party, the nation is invaded by a global virus pandemic.  Despite repeated warnings from multiple sources that this pandemic was coming to American shores, he ignores its approach, instead, seeks to keep the stock market calm – believing his reelection depends on its well-being.  Even after the pandemic gains a foothold he denies its reality, calls it a political hoax by the Democratic Party, and constantly asserts that it will quickly be over. However, the stock market plunges and he is forced to begrudgingly act.

Drawing on his acting ability, he assumes the role of America’s empathetic savior – declaring himself as the ultimate medical expert and expressing grave concern for the citizenry’s physical well-being.  He holds so-called national press conferences that are, in reality, free campaign election rallies full of lies designed to glorify himself as the nation’s greatest president. He, and his instructed staff, postures himself as the great fixer who has taken the totally broken systems of government he has inherited and mended them to perfection. For everything bad resulting from the pandemic he blames others.  For everything good that addresses the pandemic he claims credit.

However, while making these false claims, he fails to use his powers as president to arm the citizenry and the health industry with what is needed to effectively fight the pandemic and to prevent the spread of the virus and its death grip on the nation. His mind is too dense with ego need to recognize that the very economic health he relies on for re-election is dependent on the nation’s physical health.

Instead, he politicizes the crisis. He shifts the responsibility for subduing the pandemic to that of individual state governors, pitting them against each other in search of adequate medical supplies. And he secretly has his agents acquire all the available supplies and equipment necessary to effectively fight the pandemic so that he, as president, can dole them out to Republican allies and businesses loyal to him while condemning Democratic governors for failure to adequately deal with the virus. As the pandemic grows he blames China for its origin and the World Health Organization for not informing him early enough to prepare for the impact on America. His incessant lying intends to cover his own blatant ineptness, short-sightedness, unconcern for citizenry health, and betrayal of democratic intent.

While he is playing these protective blame-games he makes sure that the bulk of the trillions of dollars allotted by congress to fight the pandemic benefits big business such as sports teams and agricultural giants – most of whom are wealthy enough to survive on their own despite the economic downturn. Small business owners see little of this money.  He expects a quid pro quo in election campaign contributions and endorsements from corporate leadership.  He gives billions to pharmaceutical companies to invent a cure for the virus that will give him a political edge for re-election. Despite the public transparency of his actions his supporters remain blind to his motives. He is a master at deception and obfuscation and these supporters accept his lies as reality and his deviousness as sincerity.  Behind the scenes he seeks to throttle all voices within his government that attempt to speak the truth – including health agency experts, scientists, government inspectors, and whistle-blowers.

As a result of his unwillingness to act decisively and his favoring of big business over citizenry well-fare, the nation’s death toll rises exponentially.  In the midst of growing police brutality and contempt for minority citizens he assumes the role of the Law and Order candidate who, alone, can save the nation from the Democratic Party’s allegiance to chaos and social destruction.  

Close to election time Triumph grows ill with the coronavirus and acts normal until it can no longer be hidden.  As a result, people at campaign rallies, fund raisers, his staff, and those assigned to protect and transport him are exposed to the virus. Many are infected.  Even after taken to the hospital his illness is deliberately downplayed.  He receives the latest in experimental drugs, behaves as if the virus is easily overcome, and claims he has caused the miracle drug to be invented.

Despite his obvious disregard for citizenry life and his calloused and apparent deviousness, his supporters continue to follow him. They fall for the scandalous and false conspiracy theories that crop up across the nation designed to undermine their trust in government and to affirm him as the nation’s only possible savior. Closer to election time he has intelligence agencies he controls report so-called information that will favor his re-election. Just before the November election day his minions extol him as the nation’s messianic fixer and greatest president in American history despite all evidence to the contrary. The movie ends as the polling places open for the election event, without any announced result. This leaves the audience to decide the outcome – a clever, but unsatisfying twist.

Is this movie a tragic drama or a black comedy? If it’s genre were a comedy it would be about a president who is a sometimes amusing but ineffectual bumbling fool who, in assuming he is an expert in everything, exposes himself as a crooked political hack that puts business before people and an ignorant medical quack that recommends the citizenry ingest deadly cleaning chemicals to kill the virus. However, this film is an expose’ of a president whose attitudes and actions bring about tragic national consequences of Shakespearean dimension.  These consequences are too dreadful to be labeled a comedy – even of the blackest type.

Here is the question the movie asks: Will the American people vote to re-elect a despotic mentally ill psychopath to office who sees them only as pawns in a dictatorial oligarchy that guarantees the president’s increased power and financial enrichment or will they awake to how they have disempowered themselves and the nation and seek democracy’s restoration?

We give the movie our 100% rating for revealing the plight that faces the nation. We understand movies to be compressed time that attempt to give the viewer the big picture. We encourage you to watch this movie, in its entirety, so you can consider its application to how you will vote.

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Robert T. Latham

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PS: The two most corrupt American presidents in the past hundred years have posed themselves as champions of law and order – Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.