
Trump and Power: A Deep Divide Across America
Two places two and a half hours apart tell opposite stories about the same presidency. In Washington, D.C., federal workers describe fear for their jobs and for democratic norms, while guerrilla artist Robin Bell projects protest messages onto buildings at night, turning himself into a test case for how much dissent the city will tolerate. In Piedmont, West Virginia, coal trains still run past shuttered factories and a community hit hard by drugs, where former corrections officer and pastor Dave Cowan sees Trump's return as the last real chance for economic revival even as he worries about the country's decline. The film follows both communities across the first year of Trump's second term, cutting between the two worlds rather than favoring one, and brings in historians, democracy researchers, and Christian conservatives to frame what residents are living through. Shot close to its subjects in churches, union halls, and city streets, it builds a portrait of a country arguing with itself about what the next four years will mean.