EXT. WHITE HOUSE - NIGHT An unending sea of PASSIONATE PROTESTERS, CHANTING, YELLING, a unified chorus of pain. Fists in the air. Signs display pleas for justice & names of slain black people, one name more than any - George Floyd. CLOSE ON Protester's swollen, red eyes that..
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EXT. ST JOHN'S CHURCH - DAY A Parish with the looks of a DC Mansion. Doors and windows boarded to protect from vandalism. Trump and his Mob settle in front. Flanked by an army. The actual army. A thousand souldiers deep crushing the hopes and bones of Protester's, pushing them..
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further back. Hoping the increasing distance will silence their CHANTS for justice. That and the CHUGA CHUGA CHUGA of military choppers above. Trump studies the historic Church.. TRUMP This'll due. (looks to his men) Where's that book? Who has the book?
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Trump waves over the PHOTOGRAPHER, positions himself. Secret Service 1 glances inside his jacket, where a Bible is nestled against his heart. He looks at Trump, who's fixing the racoon tail on his head. TRUMP Who has the fucking book? Secret Service 1 glances to...
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the fading sound of once resounding CHANTS. He looks to Trump, who knows no patience, his orange face turning red. SNATCH, Pence yanks the Bible from Secret Service's jacket. Breaking his trance. The choice no longer his, as Pence hurries his way to Trump, drops to his knee and..
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hands him the Bible. Trump pets him on the head, giving Pence the biggest smile he's had in days. He stands next to his leader, but Trump shoos him away. TRUMP Next time. Pence drags his feet away in shame. Trump stares at the Bible, flips it front to back.
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TRUMP Thing is heavy. An unfamiliar gaze. A book he hasn't touched since his commencement years ago. A book he hasn't embodied the whole of his life. A book he only uses as fodder for his base. He raises it, backwards & upside down, Photographer gets in place. And...
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as people are beaten and the city burns around him. As states are in chaos and the country is mourning. As the world is watching and their hearts are breaking. Trump looks into the camera with vacant, cruel eyes and struggles to squeeze out a smile - CLICK.pic.twitter.com/5NAVja5Q43
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