A 25-Year-Old Documentary Donald Trump Tried To Ban Was Finally Released

However, 25 years later the themes of this film still resonate with Trump’s character. A quarter of a century later, here it is. In 1988 Leonard Stern commissioned the film as part of a celebrity businessmen series.

Here’s a Huffington Post piece about the documentary by its original writer, and here’s the press release announcing the online debut-it appears that the film covers some allegations, like Trump’s connection to Mob-affiliated companies and his alleged exaggeration of his own wealth, that still figure quite prominently in Trump’s public persona. Trump grew wealthy during the 80’s, the start of the “me generation” of money makers, and the “decade of greed”. In it, he was revealed to be “the opposite of a small-government conservative” and someone who’d made money “on the backs of taxpayers”.

Trump threatened to sue Leonard Stern and his associates when he first learned of the film’s existence, and the ensuing ordeal garnered a great deal of media coverage.

A somewhat mysterious trailer-narrated by a man with an epic/hammy upper-crust British accent-appeared on YouTube Wednesday advertising a documentary called Trump: What’s the Deal? , which is said to have been suppressed when it was completed in 1991. The producers were among the first to show that his financial empire was built on braggadocio…as recent reports show it to be to this day.

The Trump: What’s the Deal? website. Lawyer’s letters. Threats of lawsuits.

Stern decided he didn’t need the trouble and canceled the series.

Famed politician and rich guy Donald Trump has another potential scandal to add to his resume.

Now Trump is the hottest story in American politics, and the producers think it’s time for a film that reveals who he really is.