Donald Trump will get us all killed: Film-maker Micheal Moore

He is doing solo show about US politics on Broadway

Documentary film-maker Michael Moore is trading screen time for stage in a one-man show on Broadway that is a call to action over US politics.

The Terms of My Surrender uses Moore's satirical brand of humour to target president Donald Trump and encourage liberals to turn resentment over him and the Republican political agenda into actual resistance.

"This guy's going to get us all killed. There's nobody in charge. Trump has the nuclear codes," Moore, 63, said on Thursday. "I'm hoping somebody in the Pentagon is protecting us. Like, whatever's in that nuclear briefcase it's just some girlfriend's phone number or something. I'm just hoping that it's not the real numbers because we're in desperate shape here," added Moore, a longtime liberal and a harsh critic of Trump.

Moore's show varies each night. On Tuesday, he invited the audience to board buses and join him after the performance in a wider protest under way outside Trump Tower on nearby Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where the president had arrived a day earlier to stay at his high-rise home for the first time since taking office in January.



Moore, who won an Oscar in 2003 for his gun violence documentary Bowling for Columbine, said he had always wanted to bring the ideas from his films to a live theatre audience. "By the end of this run, 100,000 people would have seen the show. And each of them will tell 10 people things I said or did here tonight. That's a million people I've reached through a Broadway show," he said.

Moore said that far from being depressed by the actions of Trump and events in Washington in the two weeks since starting the show, he has drawn strength from his appearances. "Every night, when I leave here, I feel like my soul has been healed a little, that I have less despair, that I'm a little bit more hopeful that we're going to figure this out," he said.

The Terms of My Surrender is scheduled to run at the Belasco Theatre in New York until October 22.

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