Just In Time For The Election, A Political Satire Inspired by Donald Trump 'CHIEF ZABU' Launches on VOD August 7th
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Thursday, July 30, 2020
The socio-political comedy was inspired in part by a real estate mogul named Donald Trump, who in mid-Eighties New York City already had earned a reputation for an outsized ego and political designs.
Key Points:
- The socio-political comedy was inspired in part by a real estate mogul named Donald Trump, who in mid-Eighties New York City already had earned a reputation for an outsized ego and political designs.
- "Every hustler and huckster in New York at the time was at this meeting," recalls Zack, "not to mention Hollywood celebrities like Warren Beatty and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Afterward, when Zack told Neil all about it, Neil said, "I think we have an idea here for a script."
- As Neil remembers, there wasn't a personality more emblematic of the financial excesses of the era than Donald Trump.