10 Movie Characters Who Should Run For President In 2020
8. Gordon Gekko - Wall Street
Can there be a better contender for President than Gordon Gekko, the man whose behaviour ultimately led to financial Armageddon on Wall Street?
Just listen to him advocating the need for greed: “Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms - greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge - has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A.”
In 2008, Forbes estimated his net worth at $8.5 billion, ahead of C. Montgomery Burns and Jabba The Hut, so despite being a disgraced former jailbird with some dodgy friends (he knows Charlie Sheen and Shia LaBoeuf), he could afford to bankroll his own campaign. Unlike Trump, though, he’d probably release his tax returns.