10 Films That Predicted The Trump Presidency

Wall Street was bound to come up eventually, the film in which Michael Douglas' notorious corporate raider tells a room full of brokers that "Greed is good." Moreover, in the terrible sequel set during the housing crisis of 2008 (a period Trump refers to as "very good" for him financially), Douglas expands that point. "I once said Greed is good," he says. "Now it's legal."

The Art of the Deal is greed writ large, and Gekko - a late-80s caricature of the worst of Wall Street culture - must have been an avid fan. Though Gekko's shady business dealings have more in common with Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, the basic idea is the same. We'd ask Trump about Oliver Stone's film, but chances are - according to ghostwriter Tony Schwartz - he wouldn't have the attention span to sit through it. He can barely get through the more dialogue-heavy scenes in Bloodsport, his personal favourite.

So there you have it: a president without the personal insight of Charlie Sheen's shallow broker, who - in one of the film's more laughable attempts to be deep - stares out of his obscenely expensive New York condo and asks into the ether, "Who am I?"