On a whim I typed “Donald Trump as Tony Manero in the movie Saturday Night Fever” into midjourney and it gave me this image. I was inspired to create a series of images of Donald Trump in a 1977 disco movie. The alternate Universe story of the 45th President of the United States leaving politics after his defeat in the 2020 election and opening a disco, tumbled out from there. It started sounding like a story Donald would tell about himself - how he opened a disco and it was the hottest spot in town until corrupt city officials tried to sabotage him. The madcap premise gave me an opportunity to push this new medium of AI-generated filmmaking and create something unlike anything I’d done before.

Read this blog post for initial reactions to this film!