10 Films That Predicted The Trump Presidency

William Wagner's production of an alt-reality political film might double as the kind of nightmarish tantrum a President Trump could easily one day have.

Though the film leans more socialist than right-wing, it finds an unpopular politics-as-usual president (Walter Huston) suffering a life-changing near-death moment. As a result, he purges his entire political hack cabinet (you know, like "draining the swamp"). When threatened with impeachment, Huston dissolves the entire legislative branch on a whim.

Then he suspends civil rights, imposes martial law and threatens anyone he deems an enemy of the state with imprisonment and execution.

We've seen inklings of this in Trump's past, threatening endless lawsuits instead of imprisonment, threats against the press and illegal immigrants. Since he began his campaign, however, he has not-so-subtly recommended his opponent's assassination and incited violence at rallies.

But Huston's president becomes the hero that The Donald sees himself as; he balances the budget, gets the country out of depression and brings peace to the entire planet. The bad news, as the Library of Congress states on their write-up about the film: he's Mussolini.