Liberal activist and film maker Michael Moore has decided to celebrate his Twitter account surpassing the five million-follower mark by doing what he loves best: trying yet again to bring down GOP President Donald Trump.
On Monday, July 24, the creator of such “schlockumentaries” as Fahrenheit 9/11 -- a 2004 film criticizing then-President George W. Bush -- and Sicko, in which Moore sought expert opinion on health-care systems from his parents, will donate $1,000 to the anti-Trump group supported by each of five followers of his website.
Moore made the announcement of reaching his milestone in a tweet on Sunday:
5 million+ Twitter followers! Wow! Thank u! To celebrate, I picked 5 of you to choose an anti-Trump group for me to donate $1,000 to...
The liberal activist immediately announced the winners: Sandra Benson, Erin French, Cassie Salinas, Ed Adams and Liz H. Persisting.
As NewsBusters previously reported, this isn’t the first time the liberal activist has attempted to evict the Republican resident of the White House.
On May 1, Moore announced that he would star in The Terms of My Surrender, a performance aiming to “bring down” Donald Trump, Hollywood Reporter writer Ashley Lee noted.
Debuting at Manhattan’s Belasco Theatre on August 10, the show will be Moore’s first venture as a thespian in a project he calls “exhilarating” and “subversive” that is “guaranteed to take audiences on a ride through the United States of Insanity.”
Moore told the New York Times in May that his play is a satirical take on “a country that’s just elected a madman -- I mean, there’s really no other way to put it.”
“To say it’s just about Trump would [over]simplify it,” Moore stated.“I think people will find themselves laughing one minute and wanting to go look for some pitchforks and torches the next.”
Meanwhile, according to an opinion article by Joe Bilello on the Mediaite.com website, Moore’s production flies in the face of remarks made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The New York Democrat stated “that the Democrats need to do a better job at articulating a clear message to the American people on what they stand for. Simply being anti-Trump is not good enough.”
“When you lose to somebody who has 40 percent popularity, you don’t blame other things -- [former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James] Comey, Russia -- you blame yourself.… So what did we do wrong? People didn’t know what we stood for, just that we were against Trump and still believe that,” Schumer said.
“Film maker, social justice warrior and liberal provocateur Michael Moore does not seem to agree with the Senator’s sentiments,” Bilello noted.
He also stated that the play “is expected to essentially be nothing more than a few hours of Moore alone on stage bashing President Trump.”
“In late June,” Bilello added, “Moore announced that he would be donating $10,000 -- the advance for his Broadway show -- to the Public Theater program after corporate sponsors pulled out following the depiction of the assassination of a character resembling President Trump during a presentation of Julius Caesar.”
It’s been said that everyone needs a hobby, and for Michael Moore, it’s a never-ending struggle to evict Republicans from the White House. He’ll probably be at it for at least the next seven years.
