Trump vs the Illuminati

{{Infobox film

| name = Trump vs the Illuminati

| image = Trump vs the Illuminati poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = BC Fourteen

| writer = BC Fourteen

| producer = Jason Winn Bareford
Randall Finings

| starring = Timothy Banfield

| narrator = Rich Daigle

| studio = Ruthless Studios

| released = {{Film date|2020|10|06}}

| runtime = 1 hour 9 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

Trump vs the Illuminati is a 2020 adult animated science fiction comedy film directed by BC Fourteen. It follows a Chinese clone of Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, in a battle against an evil alien race known as the Illuminati. It received largely negative reviews from critics.

Plot

In 2044, after advanced artificially-intelligent robots drain the earth of its natural resources, leaving nothing but a husk of a planet, humanity is forced to escape into space to fight for survival. A Chinese clone of Donald Trump survives the planet's destruction by escaping the maximum-security laboratory where he is kept and stowing away on the very last shuttle headed to space.

Trump's clone's ship crashes on Mars, leaving him alone for 999 years, which he spends joyriding in a Mars rover. Meanwhile, what is left of humanity fights against an alien race known as the Illuminati. Upon discovering that he is prophesized to destroy the Illuminati, the Trump clone joins forces with the surviving humans to bring the battle to the Illuminati's headquarters in Hell. In order to defeat the Illuminati, Trump's clone must battle Satan himself.

Cast

{{Cast list|

Rich Daigle as the narrator
Timothy Banfield as Donald Trump's clone
Marco Guzmán as Van Helsing
Sophia Woods Stevens as Kali
Edson Camacho as Dr. Jekyll
Carlos Welos as Dr. Jekyll's assistant
Robert Forth as Archon
Carl Folds as Bort
Neil Simmon as Heru
Carrie Isaac as Varuna
Wes Bruff as Crawley
Simon Daigle as Flight Commander

}}

Release

The film had a limited theatrical release in select theaters in the United States and Canada on October 6, 2020. Afterwards, it was released as a DVD and on digital services such as Amazon Prime, Vimeo, and DirecTV.{{Cite press release |title=Trump vs. The Illuminati: New "October Surprise" Movie by Ruthless Studios Featuring Donald Trump Fighting Aliens, Bigfoot and Satan |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trump-vs-the-illuminati-new-october-surprise-movie-by-ruthless-studios-featuring-donald-trump-fighting-aliens-bigfoot-and-satan-301162438.html |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=PR Newswire |language=en}} Trump vs the Illuminati was released alongside its prequel, Bigfoot vs the Illuminati, which was also directed by BC Fourteen and released on October 6.

Reception

The film received very negative reviews. It received an average rating of 2.3 on IMDb, putting it at a score below those of infamously bad films such as Troll 2 and The Room, both of which are considered by many to be some of the worst films ever made. Some reviews called it "painstakingly and irrevocably bad", although others described it as "so bad, it's good".{{Cite web |date=2020-10-23 |title=The Trump vs. The Illuminati Trailer and Plot Details May Fry Your Brain |url=https://www.cbr.com/trump-vs-illuminati-trailer-plot/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=CBR |language=en}} Although the film was criticized for its poor voice acting in general, Banfield's performance as Donald Trump was praised by the website Horror Society as "pretty convincing".{{Cite web |date=2021-05-05 |title=Trump vs the Illuminati (Review) |url=https://www.horrorsociety.com/2021/05/05/trump-vs-the-illuminati-review/ |access-date=2023-05-31 |website=Horror Society |language=en-US}} In 2021, Elisabeth Vincentelli from the New York Times linked the film's trailer but did not review it, stating that the premise alone was "pretty much all you need to know".{{Cite news |last=Vincentelli |first=Elisabeth |date=2021-08-06 |title=5 Science-Fiction Movies to Stream Now |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/movies/science-fiction-movies-streaming.html |access-date=2023-05-31 |issn=0362-4331}}