Invasion: Donald Trump's War Revealed Through Horror Movies

By Irene Eliot

We failed to see the destructive, horrible machines buried below the surface of American life.

In present-day America, citizens are on the brink of a Civil War.  Donald Trump's invasion, as if from another galaxy, has thrown all systems out of whack. The United States is on a collision course with everything the American Dream promised.  Trumpism has inserted systems alien to the norms of a free society.  Personal freedom as most knew it is all but wiped out by six years of devastating attacks.  Trump's minions are waiting for a signal to ignite the final dreadful act. There are pockets of sanity left in the eerily chaotic Trump World and the shell-shocked mainstream must make a hard stand.

 

Follow the eerily bizarre similarities between Trump's attacks on America and screnes of scary classic horror movies proving "truth is stranger than fiction."   

• Uncover the whole terrible ominous story of forces that placed Trump in power and enabled his rise.
• Cut through the gobs of stuff written in books about the Trump rampage and avoid Trump denialism by getting pertinent facts.
• Compare the searing speech of Donald Trump inciting the January 6th insurrection and the last speech of Jim Jones forching the mass suicide of 900 his members in Jonestown.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Irene Eliot
• Release date: Aug 4, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215317556

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Contents

Chapter 1: War of the Worlds

The Delusion of Normalcy

On the Move

Cruel Acts of Destruction

Cages

Is It Safe to Go into the Water?

To Hell with World Peace

Was the Media Asleep at the Switch

Chapter 2: The Omen

Who or What is the Donald?

We’re Good People Aren’t We?

It is Time

Where’s My Mrs. Baylock?

The Unholy Seven

The Rise of Trumpism

Hitler’s American Connection

Anti-white 101 is Permanently Cancelled

Republicult: the Counterfeit Kingdom

The Father of Lies

Chapter 3: The Matrix

Whiteocracy: The Alternate Reality

You Were Born in a Prison

Alternate Universe: White Victim Syndrome

Chapter 4: Jonestown/Trumpland

Life or Death It Doesn’t Matter

How Cult-Leader Jim Jones Started

Common Traits and Sexual Appetites

Unhinged

Herd Mentality

To Russia with Love

Death Plans

Speeches that Kill

Chapter 5: Leading the Children off the Cliff

Bibliography

Prologue

The book is an imaginative vehicle fusing fact and satire into a relatable narrative about our collective failure to resist Donald Trump’s destructive forces. While a metaphoric style is appropriate to explain the many facets of Donald Trump by examining movie themes/scene comparisons, this is by no means a fictional book. I have tapped into a vast collection of news reports and editorials, opinions from nonfiction authors, major news sources, and congressional documents, reporting the political intrigue and bizarre events that have unfolded over the past six years. My purpose is to help solve the problem of Donald Trump information overload by cutting through the gobs of stuff written about the Trump rampage and try to uncomplicate it: make it plain. Movie comparisons put pertinent facts worth recalling or retelling into an entertaining kaleidoscope of relatable images. While these parodies can be viewed as fantasy, I adopt the premise that anything is possible. The disclosure of truth sometime requires something out-of-the-expected to sound a blast of reality.

The attack from the Trump World, commanded by Donald Trump is viewed through the movie War of the Worlds (2005) — The machines were underground all the time. The imagery of gigantic spaceships and towering alien tripod machines emerging from the earth and destroying the countryside are metaphors for the threat to democracy and the emergence of authoritarianism in this country. Like hearing a foghorn in the mist, his minions, who were embedded in the core of our country many years ago, now rise to obey Trump’s signals. They are the machines and the battering rams needed to invade us and achieve his authoritarian goal. From The Donald’s spaceship view, he is the master-builder, the owner and the creator of Trump World.

To explain the origins or genesis of Donald Trump’s behavior, I looked at the movie The Omen (1976) — His father groomed him to grow the Trump empire. But he had no way to suspect that The Donald would become the purveyor of American carnage. Although the submerged machines enabled the terrorist war, the movie The Omen helps explain the mind of The Donald and how this person came into being. Both movies War of the Worlds and The Omen create the framework for assigning the term monster, but Trump wasn’t built by a mad scientist. Readers will be able to grasp the mind-boggling fact that everything he is embodies the essence of our society.

I am not the first person, by far, to characterize Trump as an alien, monster or monstrosity. Captain Chaos, Screaming Carrot Demon, Godzilla with less foreign policy experience, Tangerine Tornado, Creep Throat, and Trumplethinskin are just a few more colorful terms some have suggested. Author Hugh Scott, a registered Republican, wrote a book that called Trump, The GOP’s Frankenstein Monster. Many movies have retold the Mary Shelley’s classic novel in which the unholy creation – the monster - rampages through the town and is eventually cornered and destroyed in the Frankenstein castle. Harry Reid, then Senate Minority Leader took onto the floor of the Senate a sign that read, Trump is the GOP’s Frankenstein monster, and called out the Republicans for stoking the fires of resentment and hatred in the country which empowered The Donald. The ultimate fulfillment of the Republican Party’s legacy of obstruction and resentment, Reid stated. Professor Rick Sanchez raised the question, Is Donald Trump an Alien? To explain the reign of Trump, Trumpism and the evolution of the Republicult, requires examining the alien force that emerged and challenged the total fabric of the world order as we know it.

While I am not promoting the belief that Trump is an actual alien form, this book does unmask a mastermind of criminal behavior which is otherworldly. The Trump World is one of the strangest theatrical spectacles of the century. Blazing across TV screens and social media with deception, lies, oppositional defiance, betrayal, disinformation, rage, political warfare, racism, white nationalism, alternate facts, racketeering, intimidation, and insurrection; the juxtaposition between moral man — president of the United States — and Donald Trump a criminal mastermind, is riveting. Implicit comparisons are made in each chapter between the movie characters and Donald Trump’s TV events. The reality show actor is a disguise or outward appearance of a man — an artificial person who the people chose to represent them and now are bound to let him speak for them. He is given the full authority to exploit his followers; essentially bilking his own people out of whatever they have and holding the fate of millions of people in his hands.

Renown physicist Stephen Hawking stoked our fears of summoning the demon through the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Hawking predicted Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, or control A.I. machines if they threaten the very survival of the human race. With that prediction as a backdrop, this book takes the reader on a ride through The Matrix movie franchise drawing parallels between the artificial condition of the Trump cult worshippers and humankind’s fragile relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) depicted in the four movies. The need to replace a vibrant multi-racial democracy with a synthetic society, a mass illusion called whiteocracy, ushers in the irreversible dominance of a techno horror — A.I. machines. Granted, this dystopian world is presented in satiric scenes and exaggerated images, the parallels with the actual Trump World are not farfetched.

The GOP’s love affair with former president Ronald Reagan put the concept of an illusionist as president of the United States on our TV screens on a daily basis. Reagan was the master illusionist who honed his skills on the silver screen as an actor in Hollywood during the 1940’s and 50’s. Often referred to as the greatest president of modern times, he sold his Hollywood identity to Washington just as Trump sold his reality TV show character to his right-wing conservative base. While illusionists perform magic tricks to entertain audiences, what they actually do is distort our perceptions through misdirection and a strong use of psychological suggestions. The whole work of an illusionist revolves around showmanship which is nothing but the skill of performing and presenting things in an entertaining and dramatic way. Both of these former presidents made this type of showmanship one of the skills required for holding the office.

Fantasy is where The Donald lives, he’s stuck in a reality show loop. Timothy L. O’Brien revealed in a POLITICO article that Donald Trump had a passion for the Hollywood scene and considered becoming a movie producer. He loves film, and he has this very cinematic sense of himself, O’Brien wrote. Every time, he sort of grimaces into the lens, I think he thinks of himself as an actor in his own drama, in his own western. The idea of examining Donald Trump’s reality show war and drawing comparisons to fictional movies seems very appropriate. It is appropriate to examine The Donald’s rise to power, self-characterization as a world leader and his war on America through the movie lens.

Perhaps, the most chilling pictures of Donald Trump are revealed through the comparisons drawn through documentaries and movies produced about the demonic-mass-killer Rev. Jim Jones, failed leader of Jonestown, Guyana, who brain-washed 900 members of his church orchestrating their suicides. In a True Crime fashion, the serial patterns of Jones and Trump referenced in this book are eye-opening and shocking — narcissistic and sociopathic traits and behaviors, delving in dangerous conspiracy theories, fetishes for chaos and violence, predatory cruelty, anti-human values, and firebrand, death speeches are all part of the extensive analysis.

War of the Worlds

Early one morning, a falling star appears over England. It crashes on Horsell Common, a large expanse of public land near the narrator’s home in Maybury. When the narrator visits the crash site, he finds a crowd of about 20 people gathered around a large cylindrical object embedded in a sand pit. The object is made of metal, and it appears to be hollow. The narrator immediately suspects that the object came from Mars. After observing it for some time, the narrator returns to his home in Maybury. By the time he next visits the crash site, news of the landing has spread, and the number of spectators has increased significantly.

I think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man.

I know I did. But looking, I saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish movements, one above another and then two luminous disks –like eyes. Then something resembling a little grey snake, about the of a thickness walking stick, coiled up out of the writhing middle, and wriggled in the air towards me — and then another. I looked again at the cylinder and ungovernable terror gripped me. I stood petrified and staring.

H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds,1897

This is the beginning of the popular science fiction novel War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells, in 1897, long before such stories appeared in the movies. Forty-one years later, actor Orson Welles and his troupe of radio actors shocked the nation interrupting the Columbia Broadcasting System's programming to report that our planet had been invaded. Orson Welles presented "War of the Worlds" as a radio broadcast and started a panic. Performing and broadcasting it live as a Halloween episode on a Sunday evening October 30, 1938, news reports estimated that Welles drove one million people to run out of their homes. They believed the world was being invaded.

Maybe it did create a nationwide panic...or maybe it was fake news. One thing is certain, Welles was promoting his weekly radio broadcast program, and it helped launch a fascination with the concept that we could be invaded by aliens from Mars. Orson Welles' War of the Worlds broadcast became famous for supposedly tricking some of its listeners into believing that a Martian invasion actually occurred due to the breaking news style of storytelling through the radio. Naive?... perhaps. Radio audiences were more gullible in those days. Which brings us to the breaking news event on June 16, 2015, as Donald Trump emerged from his tower, slowly gliding down a golden escalator spewing repulsive, startling untruths from his mouth; and the media legitimized him in video clips, op-eds, and constant story coverage from mainstream broadcast to late night cable TV. He was announcing his run for president in the 2016 election, but naïve, perhaps, we failed to see the real-alien invasion tale of our times.

Stephen Spielberg adapted the H.G. Wells sci-fi novel War of the Worlds to the movie screen in 2005 with dazzling action shots and visual effects, to tell this tale of a Martian invasion and extermination of earth. Earlier Spielberg movies had dabbled in the higher instincts of man with the feel-good movie E.T. (1982) in which the alien shared its superior extraterrestrial traits with a boy, and Spielberg gave us a peaceful encounter with aliens via Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). However, humans are hard-wired with an instinct to fight furiously and to trade information and share secrets. Psychologists call it evolutionary psychology. Negative messages have the power to wipe out in one stroke all the built-up positive messages. In other words, fear sells. Spielberg replaced peaceful alien encounters with a growing fear of an invasion. He directed the 2005 block-buster movie War of the Worlds as a political allegory of Jihad terrorist invasion; echoing the fear of terrorist cells hiding underground waiting for the moment to strike, a fear that gripped the nation after the horrific 9/11 invasion and destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York by Al-Qaeda Islamists.

Philip Hall revealed Spielberg's intent in his article, What the War of the World Means Now, which appeared in the New Statesman magazine in 2018. He quotes Spielberg, a longtime fan of the H.G. Wells sci-fi novel and dreamt of putting it on the screen, after 9/11 it began to make more sense to me, Spielberg revealed. This time the allegory, similar to H.G. Wells original purpose for the novel, is front and center," Hall wrote. H.G. Wells wrote the novel War of the Worlds as a social commentary on the imperialistic power of the British Empire which invaded weaker countries and colonized them. The Martians took the place of the Empire and Britain became the conquered country. Now fast forward — enter Donald Trump, after eight years of a tapped down diplomacy and restraint under President Barack Obama, Trump flips the switch. Fear and aggression move to center stage.

There was an earlier version of the movie War of the Worlds produced in 1953 by Paramount Pictures. The invasion strikes Los Angeles, CA, and it ties in many elements of the fears of the Cold War years with a climatic launching of an A-bomb on the Martians who are otherwise unstoppable in their annihilation of earth. This political allegory reflected the justification for dropping two atomic bombs on Japan, August 1945 to end the Pacific War. The horrendous act of war is still being debated, even today, but the 1953 movie was an emotional catharsis for the American public who needed to shake off the guilt from annihilating 70,000 people in Hiroshima and 40,000 people in Nagasaki. The 1953 sci-fi movie, from Paramount Pictures, won an Academy Award for visual effects and set in motion this type of movie genre. What comes to light is that War of the Worlds tells a story symbolic of processes that are somehow inherent in all human destinies," suggests Philip Hall.

Side note: Ironically, Winston Churchill, prime minister of England during WWII, was one of the West's leading champions of the atomic bomb and he played a role in the decision to drop the A-bombs. H.G. Wells was an important influence on Churchill in his early years. Both men were eugenicists who advocated for selective breeding, arguing that only people who meet certain criteria, including physical fitness and financial independence should be allowed to have children. I cannot find a direct connection between the influence of eugenics and the decision to annihilate 110,000 Japanese people, but it is an idea to ponder. Churchill's moral courage and wartime leadership is widely revered, but his bias and racist beliefs were underreported. Some of his recorded statements include: I hate Indians... they are a beastly people with a beastly religion. He boasted of killing three insurgents in the Sudan calling them savages. Churchill chastised his colleagues who were not in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes in northwest Asia. He even called the beloved Mahatma Gandhi a half-naked holy man and presided over the hideous 1943 famine in Bengal where three million East Indian people perished. These and other examples of his callous intolerance for those not of the Aryan race were reported in an article in The Washington Post (2015). It is worth noting the traits and behaviors of this lionized political figure while we examine another adored leader who had his hand on the nuclear button in this country.

Tom Cruise played, Ray, the lead character in the Spielberg version of War of the Worlds, a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his wife and estranged from his two children. During a weekend visitation with his kids, a violent lighting storms hits his neighborhood. Ray is horrified to discover that an alien invasion of spaceships has ignited huge, towering tripod machines that rise out of the earth. Ray realizes that these huge tripod machines were there deep underground all along. The alien spaceships inject their crews into these war machines through electromagnetic lightning strikes, and the gigantic machines are ignited and powered to break through to the earth’s surface. The movie depicts the same collective trauma and terror felt by thousands of people during the terrorist attack at ground zero in New York City with traumatized people covered in ash. Police, firemen, military personnel all standing against the machines as hordes of people push through them to find a way to escape recreates images of the chaos on the New York City streets during the 9/11 invasion.

Is it possible that our sky watching today is in error and the aliens are already in our midst? Gigantic spaceships looming over major cities and towering Martian tripods aren’t needed to tell us we’ve been invaded and we’re under attack. The invaders were underground all along waiting for the right trigger to let them break through the crust of the earth. The War of the Worlds movie based on the H.G. Wells vision characterizes what is coming into view as the smoke is beginning to clear. The world as we know it seems to have collapsed in on itself. We failed to see the destructive, horrible machines buried below the surface of a fragile American dream.

When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

The Donald spit out a speech –so offensive, and dishonest– as he emerged from his tower, slowly gliding down the golden escalator. But it set a precedent for the freewheeling lies that would become his trademark, and the dismantling of all conceptions of normalcy. These lies are the dog whistles for a certain group of people in this country who live in the recesses of our society, in an alternate reality, hiding and out of touch with growth, future development and any concept of diversity. Those people heard his call and responded. The electromagnetic pulses in the lighting strikes ignited the terrible machines to begin the exponential destruction of the American society, with the end goal of a Civil War. The Donald awoke those who had been waiting for the destructor and they formed what is called Trump’s base; undermining America’s commitment to constitutionalism, the rule of law and equal rights.

The Delusion of Normalcy

He remained standing at the edge of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance, astonished chiefly at its unusual shape and color, and dimly perceiving even then some evidence of design in its arrival.

H.G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds, p.10

Despite being a rather tall, 6 ft. 2 in. white male – height is generally synonymous with the American seat of power – people seemed to dwell on his strange speech, behaviors, hair and even orangish skin color, and some perhaps drew some conclusions early in the presidential race. His appearance is anything but presidential, his explosive temperament was on view raising eyebrows regarding his fitness for the office. An image consultant Daniel Johnson wrote, So Trump’s shocking shock, for all the ridicule and hairspray that sticks to it, is his comfort blanket? It certainly looks fluffy enough. But, paired with his over-tanned skin and less-than-fitted suits, how much is this hairstyle damaging his approval ratings? The long and short of it is that his bouffant thin hair makes him an easy target to poke fun at and make him very hard to take seriously. How can a man who can’t control his hair have his finger on the button? The comedian Megan Amram tweeted, Today, was the day Donald Trump finally became president. It’s a joke both on the people who hoped that Trump might grow into his office, and on the president himself, who lives in a fantasy land where he’s a statesman of world-historical caliber even as he smashes cherished norms and gets played by dictators.

For example, consider this Donald Trump comment on the historic Iran Nuclear Agreement engineered by the Obama administration and supported by more than 100 countries to stop the threat of an Iranian nuclear program:

"Look having nuclear –my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer. Dr. John Trump at MIT, good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart – you know, if you're a conservative Republican. If I were a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world –it's true –but when you're a conservative Republican they try –oh, do, they do a number –that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune –you know