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Citizen Trump Takes on 'Citizen Kane'

Rosebud

One is an egomaniacal magnate who wants to be president and was married several times, and the other is… wait a minute.

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Updated Apr. 14, 2017 9:33AM ET / Published Sep. 08, 2015 11:15AM ET 

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From an abandoned project by the great documentarian Errol Morris comes an unusually sedate Donald Trump reflecting on Orson Welles’s masterpiece of masterpieces, Citizen Kane.

Being one of a small handful of people who could have ever truly found a kindred spirit in Welles’s playboy-turned-politician Charles Foster Kane, Trump speaks from the heart. “In real life,” he says, “I believe that wealth does, in fact, isolate you from other people. It’s a protective mechanism.”

But of course, Trump’s gonna Trump so, when Morris asks him what advice he would offer to Kane, his answer is both succinct and totally expected: “Get yourself a different woman.”

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