Controversial filmmaker Michael Moore has gone out with an intense Facebook campaign to warn against a Donald Trump presidency. One letter is a direct plea to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, asking her to discourage her father from continuing the presidential campaign since he’s “clearly mentally ill:”
“I’m writing to you because your dad is not well.
Every day he continues his spiral downward – and after his call for gun owners to commit acts of violence against Mrs. Clinton, it is clear he needs help, serious help. His comments and behavior have become more and more bizarre and detached from reality. He is in need of an intervention. And I believe only you can conduct it.”
The letter captures the very real concerns many of us feel about a future with Trump as the leader of the free world, but Michael Moore adds a good portion of sarcasm, humor and satire in to the mix, when he offers her hands-on advice on what to say:
“Don’t get upset! You’re still the handsomest billionaire I know. I will always love you. Melania will always love you. Vladimir will always love you… OK, maybe that wasn’t funny. But you get my point. This running for President thing is destroying the dad I have known and loved. And honestly, you and I both know you didn’t really want this job to begin with! You just wanted to make a point. Ok, well, POINT MADE! You did it! Now, let’s stop and get some help.”
Moore even tells Ivanka to remind him of his good deeds in the past, presumably before his mental illness:
“The man who raised me was the man who, for no charge, built a huge ice rink in Central Park for all the people to use!”
But the point is loud and clear; Moore wants Ivanka to put an end to the threat of her father ever moving in to the White House:
“The entire nation — in fact, the entire world — needs you to step forward and do the courageous thing history will praise you for: the loving act of a brilliant daughter who also loved her beleaguered country enough to say her father wasn’t well and needed help.”
A second letter is directed to us, the voters. Just in case Ivanka doesn’t want to, or manages to get her father out of the presidential race, he advises us of five ways to make sure Trump loses.
The reason is that a number of recent polls shows Hillary Clinton leading over Donald Trump nationally by double digits, and Moore is worried that if we relax and think “Trump will beat Trump” by shooting himself in the head, we are playing with fire.
Moore writes that it doesn’t matter if Clinton leads the polls. The important thing is who votes:
“If people could vote from their sofa via their Xbox or remote control, Hillary would win in a landslide. But this election is only about who SHOWS UP to the VOTING BOOTH on November 8th.”
Moore is worried that democrats won’t show up to the voting booths for several reasons. One of them is the weather:
“If you live in the top half of the country, that means a greater chance for snow or icy rain — and that means a lower turnout. A lower turnout helps Trump.”
Moore contrasts scared Trump voters, who’ll for sure get up at 5 a.m. on election day because:
“A Wall needs to built! Muslims are killing us! Women are taking over! USA! USA! Make My Penis Great Again! Hillary is the Devil! America First! Fetus First! First in Line at the Polls!”
Moore reminds us that Trump raised and astonishing $82 million last month, mostly in $10-$20 contributions. Even Bernie Sanders never had a grassroots month anywhere near that, so Moore offers a to-do list for the democratic voter:
- You are responsible for getting 50 people to the polls November 8th.
- The only possible way to win is an unrelenting, round-the-clock commitment.
- Be supportive of the depressed Voter. Too many people have given up on our system and your job is to listen, offer your support and get them back on track.
- Clinton actually has a good sense of humor, and Trump has very thin skin. If she can slide the perfect line of satirical ridicule, he will implode. On live TV. So you have to watch Maher and his colleagues and support Clinton if they get her on air.
- You have to be the precinct captain in your neighborhood, school, and at work.
Moore ends his plea by explaining how much is at stake, if we don’t do our part:
“Trump can actually lose Florida, Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico — and STILL WIN! All he has to do is carry the rust belt ’Brexit States’ of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Hillary lost three of these four in the primaries. Nothing can be taken for granted.”
The full letter with the exact instructions of what we have to do, can be read here. Michael Moore’s final instruction is to Read and Share!
But first, you might want to get inspired by this footage Moore found of a younger Hillary Clinton killing a Republican opponent with her rarely seen sense of humor. Enjoy!
Featured image screengrab from Facebook.
