Michael Moore hopes his film is 'beginning of the end' for Trump

REUTERS - Provocative filmmaker Michael Moore said on Thursday (September 6) he hoped his new documentary would mark "the beginning of the end" for the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump. The liberal activist said "Fahrenheit 11/9," which will get its world premiere at the Toronto film festival later on Thursday, was "a siren call" to what he called a "despairing, dispirited public," in comments published on his website. Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence documentary "Bowling for Columbine," said the new film looks at the reasons why the United States elected the businessman and former reality TV star to the White House in November 2016 and "also (to) help show us the way out." He also called the documentary a "story of hope," and urged voters to turn out for the November midterm congressional elections. A trailer for the provocative, comedic documentary shows television and film clips of school shootings, white nationalist demonstrations, footage of Trump's public speeches, and interviews with ordinary Americans. It has the tagline, "This is the movie that will end the insanity." The documentary will premiere in Toronto the same week that the New York Times printed an anonymous opinion column in which the writer described "a quiet resistance" to Trump within his own administration, and advance excerpts of a new book by journalist Bob Woodward portraying Trump as prone to impulsive decision-making.