"Is that idiot crazy?" Hillary cursed at home about Trump's recent mad actions.
Clinton said, "Quite the opposite—I think he's very smart. He's picking up what we discarded (the rednecks), and the Rockefellers have already shown they won't support him. Trading one enemy for a bloc of voters is a good deal."
"Isn't he afraid of ending up like Kennedy?" Hillary said gloomily.
Clinton replied, "Times have changed. Assassinating the nation's top leader carries too much risk now. Besides, this guy isn't unprepared. Look."
Clinton turned his desk laptop, pointing the screen at Hillary.
On the screen was Trump's latest tweet:
"Unless further notice is received, I will allow the National Archives to release the final batch of classified files related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy."
"What the fuck!" Hillary was truly shocked this time. "How dare he?!"
Clinton smiled and said, "This is just a threat—it may not turn into action."
Then he paused, scratching his forehead with his left pinky, and said uncertainly, "Normally, that would be the case, but Trump might be an abnormal person."
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot and killed while riding through Elm Street in Dallas, becoming the fourth assassinated president in U.S. history.
The Kennedy assassination was riddled with suspicions; many pieces of evidence couldn't be verified.
The suspect arrested by police, Oswald, was also gunned down, leaving many unanswered mysteries.
The year after Kennedy's death, the federal special commission investigating the case released its findings, concluding that Oswald fired from the sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository at the president passing below in an open convertible, killing him. Oswald acted alone, with no larger conspiracy.
However, the American public didn't buy this explanation.
Many polls showed that most Americans believed the Kennedy assassination involved more suspects than just Oswald, with a conspiracy behind it.
Conspiracy theories about Kennedy's death abounded, with suspects including the CIA, U.S. President Johnson, the Soviet KGB, the American Mafia, and more.
In fact, those involved in "assassinating Kennedy" were several major U.S. families.
The files Trump wanted to release were the classified documents from that investigation—over 6,000 files spanning tens of thousands of pages, with more than 3,000 never released and another 3,000 in redacted form.
"So, he's warning the Rockefellers not to make any moves?" Hillary was still stunned. Trump's audacity was immense.
"Clearly so." Clinton shrugged.
Back in Los Angeles, Martin saw the news too and couldn't help saying, "Fuck, this guy's got balls!"
But this move was indeed clever.
Martin suddenly recalled that in an MSNBC interview, Trump had boasted about attending an Ivy League school and being extremely smart.
"Compared to the real me, the media portrays me as more uncivil. You know, people don't understand me at all. I went to an Ivy League school. I was a very good student, with excellent grades. I'm a very intelligent person."
Trump said, "You know, I think the truth is, the media creates an image completely different from the real Trump."
Martin thought: "Trump's right—he is a smart guy."
Then, on second thought, he remembered one of Trump's recent statements. "Okay, being smart and being cultured might not be the same thing."
What statement made Martin think that?
Let's take a look.
This was Trump's Twitter defense of his intelligence from May 9 of that year: "My uncle was a great professor, scientist, and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT. Good genes, very good genes, okay? Very smart, the Wharton School of Business, very good, very smart. You know, if you're a conservative, I'm a liberal, if, like, okay? If I ran as a Democrat, people would say I'm one of the smartest people in the world. That's right... Sorry, losers and haters, I'm one of the smartest people."
Yes, this fragmented, nonsensical sentence was Trump's exact words.
No wonder many in U.S. politics secretly called Trump an "idiot"—like the Clintons.
MSNBC reported that they'd never seen an Ivy League graduate talk like that.
It felt like Trump was trying to convince himself, not the public, to believe he had a very good brain.
Trump might be uncultured, but his intelligence was undeniable—and he was an intelligent man with immense courage.
After dragging out the dead president Kennedy, the Rockefellers' actions against him did indeed recede. Some dangerous off-the-books moves were canceled, leaving only routine workplace confrontations.
Trump was relatively satisfied with this.
So, on October 27, at the last moment before releasing the Kennedy files, Trump "blocked" some key documents, releasing only 2,800 redacted files with no explosive information.
Time advanced to late November.
It wrapped production.
North American box office halted at $445 million, while global box office reached $802 million, shattering the horror film records set by Get Out with $414 million North American and $789 million global.
Drew held a wrap party, but Martin didn't attend.
[TL/N: Martin went to Ching Chong Country with Trump.]