Overall, the aesthetics of a car crash.
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The extraordinary thing about a state of emergency is usually not how repulsive it is, but how attractive it is. Anyone who has ever been an eyewitness to a pile-up, a bar fight, a bomb explosion or an open stomach injury knows just how inevitable the drastic departure from the ordinary captivates us all. And the greatest state of emergency that can be assumed, a pile-up, bar brawl, bomb explosion and open abdominal injury all in one, so to speak: Donald Trump.
Everything about this human natural catastrophe is so repulsively attractive, or vice versa, that it remains a mystery why exactly 77,303,673 eligible voters delegated him to the White House on November 5th for the second time since 2020. The first is currently trying to decode this open secret in the media library. Perhaps it is no wonder that one author (Claire Walding) had previously enjoyed filming aristocratic documentaries and her partner (Inga Turczyn) had filmed several red light reports.
The “fateful years of a president,” as the three-part series is called, although intrusive but appropriately tabloid, is ultimately a search for clues in the swamp of a venerable democracy on the way to monarchist kleptocracy. With a man at the helm “who was born with a thirst for success,” as speaker Anna Thalbach tells us in her sweet voice from the off. The cradle was in Queens, where little Donald was born in 1946 as the fourth of five children of housing speculator Fred Trump “with a golden spoon in his mouth.”
From there, the journey continues in strict chronological order through well-known stages of life: cold parental home, strict military academy, solid economics studies, entry into the real estate empire, first successes, accusations of racism, first bankruptcies, accusations of fraud, first TV shows, allegations of abuse. Everything is told just as often as the quote from his right-wing radical mentor, the former McCarthy lawyer Roy Cohn: “Donald pisses ice water.” Portraits of this icon of the attention economy have long been stacked Trump Tower high in the television archives.
The greatest state of emergency that can be assumed, a mass pile-up, bomb explosion and open abdominal injury all in one, it is called: Donald Trump.
The Netflix series “An American Dream” comprehensively documented the rise of the Caesar-mad dictator-to-be back in 2017. A year later on PBS, “The Art of the Insult” got to the bottom of its analog-digital communication, which “Unfit” tried to interpret psychologically in the cinema in 2020, while “An American Dream” on Arte decoded the dynasty behind it and “The Family « on Netflix his religious network. Not to mention an endless number of in-depth analyzes of the attempted coup on January 6, 2021.
A German format of manageable length just above the hour mark sounds a bit, well, redundant. If it weren’t so excellently researched and would broaden the view of a future that serves the mass pile-up, bar brawl, bomb explosion, abdominal injury voyeurism almost better than 78 years of outrageous hell on earth before Trump. Or as ARD correspondent Gudrun Engel puts it: “Attack attack attack, deny deny deny and never admit defeat.” The audience has hardly gotten enough of that since his first candidacy in 2016.
“The Fateful Years of a President” hardly adds anything new to the canon of known facts. Even lesser-known facts such as his unsuccessful bid to become a Republican presidential candidate in 2000 or his youngest son Baron’s podcast activities are not classified information. But thanks to contemporary witnesses such as Trump’s former security advisor John Bolton or Germany’s former foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel, the documentary is not only conclusively cast – despite Jörg Wimalasena from the Musk fanzine “Welt”. It confidently maintains the tension between facts and thrill, also known as infotainment. Seen this way, the documentary is actually a horror shocker.
Ultimately, the endless stream of brazen lies with which Trump has been poisoning the global climate for ten years even more than his fossilized battle cry “drill, drill, drill” never quite comes to a standstill in almost 70 minutes and constantly asks the question: How could 77 Are millions of voters falling for his distortion of the facts again ten weeks ago? The answer: because throughout his life he did nothing other than normalize the state of emergency. And now again in the White House. “I’m worried that he will implement some of his campaign promises,” says even the hardened political veteran John Bolton. What a horror film.
Available in the ARD media library.
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