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09th Aug 2018

#TRAILERCHEST: Michael Moore releases trailer for Trump documentary Fahrenheit 11/9

Carl Kinsella

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Michael Moore explores the rise of Donald Trump… This is going to be a must-watch.

Documentary fans have known that Michael Moore’s documentaries are not to be missed, ever since the days of the Oscar-winning Bowling For Columbine.

Fahrenheit 11/9 will see Moore sink his teeth into the phenomenon of Donald Trump and all the strange things that have come with it — the emergence of the alt-right, total reversals of decades of American foreign policy, and a society more disillusioned than ever.

The trailer shows Moore filming neo-Nazi rallies first hand, interviewing David Hogg — a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, and spraying the governor of Michigan’s house with contaminated water from his hometown of Flint. It also sees Moore ominously refer to Trump as “the last president of the United States.”

According to Moore himself, the documentary will seek to answer one key question: “How the f*ck did this happen?”

The 11/9 in the title refers to day following Trump’s election to the office of President — and also serves as a wink to Moore’s documentary about George W. Bush and the War on Terror, Fahrenheit 9/11.

The movies is expected to hit American theatres on September 21. No details of an Irish release are public yet, but we’re absolutely dying to see this one.

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