10 Films That Predicted The Trump Presidency

“I learned very early on that I didn't want to be in the business my father was in. He did very well building rent-controlled and rent-stabilized housing in Queens and Brooklyn, but it was a very tough way to make a buck,” wrote Trump, or Tony Schwarz, of the days when he would refuse to rent property to minorities.

David Letterman relished having Trump on just to call him a slumlord to his face, and he has a pretty solid reputation amongst New Yorkers who lived in the city throughout the 70s and 80s of being less-than-reputable when it came to real estate.

Hollywood often have films about social or moral injustices or their era, and the late Hal Ashby's The Landlord is no exception. Beau Bridges stars as a Trump-in-the-making, a wealthy man of privilege forced to deal with inner-city, low-income residents. His dream is simple: evict them all and transform the building into a luxury suite for his own.

But that's where the film and reality break paths, as Bridges finds himself sympathetic to his tenant's problems, eventually falling in love with one.

And he didn't even have to pay her off afterwards.