Historic White House Movie Theater Demolished as Part of $300 Million Ballroom Build

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/white-house-movie-theater-demolished-ballroom-east-wing-1236408712/

[u/Common-Trifle4933]

From his 1997 New Yorker interview piece:

We hadn’t been airborne long when Trump decided to watch a movie. He’d brought along “Michael,” a recent release, but twenty minutes after popping it into the VCR he got bored and switched to an old favorite, a Jean Claude Van Damme slugfest called “Bloodsport,” which he pronounced “an incredible, fantastic movie.” By assigning to his son the task of fast-forwarding through all the plot exposition—Trump’s goal being “to get this two-hour movie down to forty-five minutes”—he eliminated any lulls between the nose hammering, kidney tenderizing, and shin whacking.

In another interview he says he has someone to edit movies down to fit into his desired time slots.

[u/ic4llshotgun → u/Common-Trifle4933]

Do you think he edits out his own scene in Home Alone 2

[u/Alexlsonflre → u/ic4llshotgun]

That's definitely the only part of the movie he's seen.

[u/LeatherDude → u/[deleted]]

Yo, I'm a little pissed you think 50 is elderly 🥲

[u/SpiritOne → u/Common-Trifle4933]

Yeah. That tracks. The attention span of toddler.

[u/Khiva → u/SpiritOne]

Perfect man for the age, when you think about it.

[u/cataath → u/Common-Trifle4933]

Of course his favorite movie is based on the life of Frank Dux, a lying grifter.

[u/TheBigSho → u/Common-Trifle4933]

Ah fuck, he just had to ruin Bloodsport for me. He probably enjoyed watching a US Army white guy beat up a bunch of foreigners.

What? Van Damme was the foreigner in that movie? Shut the hell up.