Why Is Donald Trump So Fixated on Hannibal Lecter?
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic For a moment, Donald Trump seemed — despite everything — to be a whole new man. We’d been told by speakers throughout the final night of the Republican National Convention that the attempt on his life had changed the 45th president’s outlook and his approach to politics.
The experience had made him a unifier. “He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot,” Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, said in his speech Thursday night, hours before Trump took the stage. “In the moment, he did his best to bring the country together.” And then, somewhat deep into Trump’s stem-winder of a speech, he started talking about Hannibal Lecter. “The press is always on me, because I say this,” he began, in an aside.
He knew it was not the first time he’d brought up Hannibal, but he couldn’t resist. “Has anyone seen ‘Silence of the Lambs’?
The late, great Hannibal Lecter. He’d love to have you for dinner.” Great movies have the power to bring people together, certainly.
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