Fahrenheit 11/9

Was it all just a dream?

It was the night before the election in 2016.

Everything seemed to be going as planned.

Amateurs and experts alike

had already called the election months ago.

There's not going to be a President Donald Trump.

That's not going to happen.

Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States.

Donald Trump will never be elected president of the United States.

He's not going to be president.

Is there a path to victory for Donald Trump at this point?

No.

You still think she has a 100% chance of winning the election?

Mmm, I do.

I'm not sure the Republican Party is going to survive.

I would like to introduce to you

the next president of the United States, Mrs. Hillary Clinton.

Thank you all, and thanks to Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

And thanks to Chance The Rapper and J. Cole and Big Sean.

She had no idea who any of these rappers were.

But it didn't matter.

NEWS ANCHOR'. The big day is finally here.

And it's time to vote.

A giddy nation awoke that morning to the news in The New York Times

that Trump had only a 15% chance of winning.

You know, growing up as a little girl, I never thought I could be president.

It's becoming very real.

Congrats, Hillary, our first woman president.

Whoo! Hillary all the way.

All the way to the White House.

I waited over an hour to vote. I am so happy.

In Rochester, New York,

thousands put "I voted" stickers on the grave of suffragist Susan B. Anthony.

This is the most important election that I have ever voted in.

I got to vote for a woman for president. (WOMAN LAUGHING)

We finally made it.

Once the polls closed, before the votes were even counted,

the champagne corks were popping

at Hillary's victory party in New York City.

This has a literal glass ceiling,

a glass ceiling they're hoping to symbolically burst through tonight.

Let's be one nation, indivisible, with a kick-ass president.

Meanwhile, just 17 blocks away...

It's a decidedly small venue,

perhaps the smallest one I've ever seen for an event like this.

Things were looking bad for the other candidate.

The crowd was glum.

REPORTER". GOP officials now fear that if Donald Trump loses by a landslide,

he could take down the congressional majorities with him.

Fox News seemed relieved

that they wouldn't have to support this man for the next four years.

I think Hillary is going to win.

The betting odds on the presidential race are three-to-one

in favor of Secretary Clinton.

Look at all these wins

we're projecting for Hillary Clinton.

Right now, she wins New Jersey

with 14 electoral votes.

Mrs. Clinton is also performing strongly

on the East Coast.

Massachusetts, Maryland...

NEWS ANCHOR '2'. And Illinois

with 20 electoral votes.

Hillary Clinton projected the winner.

No huge surprises thus far.

Then, something strange began to happen.

Big news for the first time tonight.

Really big news in the presidential race.

We can project that Donald Trump

will win the state of Ohio.

Donald Trump will carry

the state of North Carolina.

And that is huge for Donald Trump.

This is exactly what he needed to do.

Donald Trump will carry the state of Florida.

State of Wisconsin. He will win Wisconsin...

No!

NEWS ANCHOR'. Trump doing very well in Pennsylvania right now.

A cliffhanger going on here in Michigan.

56% of the vote is in.

Look at how close it is.

Right now, Donald Trump is ahead.

It's completely flipped now.

To make matters worse,

Fox News was using my name.

Michael Moore, who knows white working-class voters,

he's made movies about them, he grew up in Michigan,

had been saying all along to the Democrats,

"Dismiss him at your own peril."

And he said, "I'm warning you,

"I know the people who live in my state

"and I know how they think

and I know what their concerns are."

Everybody should head home.

You should get some sleep.

We are not going to have anything more to say tonight.

This is a Fox News election alert.

Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

It looked like a perp walk.

He had written no victory speech.

MOORE Never did a group of people

look as sad to win the presidency

as this crowd.

MOORE At 2:29 a.m., on 11/9/16, our new leader's image

was projected onto the Empire State Building.

How the fuck did this happen?

Yes, it was the Russians.

And of course, it was James Comey.

What a job. (KISSES)

But history will record that no one was more responsible

for Donald Trump being in the White House than this woman.

That's right. Gwen Renée Stefani.

Allow me to explain.

Ladies and gentlemen, my father, Donald J. Trump.

What you are about to witness is a fake announcement

for a run for president of the United States.

This idea was cooked up by Donald Trump

when he found out that NBC was paying Gwen Stefani on The Voice

more than they were paying him to star on The Apprentice.

He paid a bunch of extras 50 bucks a piece

to be his cheering supporters.

He would prove to NBC

that he was more popular than Gwen Stefani,

and then they would give him more money.

He would also show them how good he was at improv

with his fake presidential announcement.

And that's when things went off the rails.

They sweated like dogs.

I'm really rich, I assure you that.

They do a website. It cost me $3.

...that I got from China in a war.

The sun will rise, the moon will set.

He wasn't a cheerleader. He was the opposite.

Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work.

I think I'm actually a very nice person.

We have nothing.

I just sold an apartment for $15 million

to somebody from China.

I learned so much just sitting at his feet,

playing with blocks...

They're rapists and some probably from the Middle East.

And I promise I will never be in a bicycle race,

that I can tell you.

We now have a gun on every table.

We're ready to start shooting.

The American dream

is dead.

NBC says

it's cutting business ties with Donald Trump.

Donald Trump receives a pink slip of his own.

...citing his derogatory statements,

calling Mexican immigrants "rapists, drug dealers and criminals."

MOORE". His plan backfired.

He was now out of a job.

Though he had no real plans to run for president,

his sons encouraged him to go ahead with the two rallies

that he had booked and paid for.

As he looked around at the adoring masses,

a crowd the size of which he'd never seen before,

he had his epiphany.

DONALD TRUMP'. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable!

Maybe running for president

wasn't such a bad idea after all.

In fact, it was a brilliant idea.

"Fuck Gwen Stefani!

"And fuck NBC!

"I'm going to be king of the world."

There was no one happier with this decision

than the nation's media.

Trump was about to become their cash cow.

And NBC could now put him on TV for free.

First, he gave them a good laugh.

We better be ready for the fact that he might be leading the Republican ticket.

I know you don't believe that, but I wanna go on... (LAUGHS)

Then, he started telling them what to do.

But I want the cameras to span the room. Go ahead, fellas, watch.

They don't turn them. They don't turn them.

They don't turn them.

Go ahead, turn them.

Look, turn the camera. Go ahead.

You with the blonde hair. Turn the camera.

Show them how many people come to these rallies.

Then he started dictating how the interviews would be conducted.

Hey, welcome back to Morning Joe.

Let's bring in right now on the phone, Donald Trump.

How are you doing this morning, first of all, Donald?

(ON PHONE) I'm doing good. TRUMP". I did a phoner.

It's always good when they take you by phone.

That means you're hot.

We do phoners to Meet the Press.

Donald Trump himself.

(ON PHONE) Good morning, Chuck.

Welcome back to Meet the Press, sir.

Good morning, Chuck.

I'm joined now on the phone from New York...