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Trump Just Announced His Own Hunger Games

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19.12.2025

Collins' President Snow, a fictional villain, somehow has a more tasteful, less gold-drenched office than Trump.Murray Close/ Getty Images

It’s not a secret that Donald Trump has taken inspiration from several famous authoritarians of both the past and the present. Vladimir Putin, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, and Xi Jinping, all of whom the president has openly praised, have shaped Trump’s leadership style in one way or another.

But I really didn’t think that The Hunger Games’ President Coriolanus Snow, leader of the fictional country of Panem, would eventually find his way onto that........

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