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Trump’s Rosebud: New Film Seeks the True Heart of Trump
Trump’s Rosebud is a fair and balanced deep dive into the once and (perhaps) next President — Can we finally cut the bias?
Is anyone unbiased about Donald Trump, who is always loved or loathed?Author/director Robert Orlando seeks something seldom (if ever) seen: a fair and balanced search for the truth about Trump.
The theme song asks, “Is that all there is?” But Robert Orlando wants more, the hidden “Rosebud” revealing the point and purpose of a character’s life.
Orlando seeks to find Trump’s Rosebud, that one story — or thing — motivating a man, just as Citizen Kane (the favorite film of both Orlando and Trump) showed a search to figure out Charles Foster Kane after he whispered “Rosebud” on his deathbed (Kane’s Rosebud was a sled he loved in a left-behind childhood).
Trump, too, notes, “the name Rosebud has captivated viewers for so many years.”
Seeing the world through a filmmaker’s lens
TV distorts. Turn on the news, and you can tell within 30 seconds whether the speaker loves, hates, or tolerates the 45th president. Join a conversation, say the name “Trump,” and the room temperature seems to grow warmer or…
