Many Americans see Donald Trump through the lens of the more than nine years of negative media coverage that began when he announced his presidential candidacy at Trump Tower in June 2015. Inflammatory adjectives such as “racist,” “misogynist,” “fascist,” and “egomaniac” have been used to describe him. However, his closest friends, colleagues, and family paint a completely different picture in the new documentary The Man You Don’t Know.
“With anything in life, there is another side to the story, and that’s what this movie is,” director Christopher Martini told The New American. “This movie is literally showing that other side, where no one has really attempted to do that.”
“What if I come up with something that just turns me off?” Martini asked himself upon accepting the project. “And I can tell you, that didn’t happen. And by talking to his family directly, you see the children that he raised are so amazing and remarkable. That to me, that said it all. And it was sort of like this wonderful validation for something that I already felt from the beginning.”
Produced by Global Ascension Studios, the documentary contains testimonies regarding Trump’s character and deeds from people such as Peter Ticktin, Trump’s classmate at the New York Military Academy; actor and musician Frank Stallone (the younger brother of actor Sylvester Stallone); wrestler Hulk Hogan; Donald Trump, Jr.; Eric Trump; Lara Trump; and many more.
The film, released October 25, resurrects rare footage, photographs, and interviews of Trump throughout his life, weaving together a narrative revealing a man who stood on America-first and family-first principles long before entering politics.
Putting aside campaigning and policy, the movie depicts Trump as a generous man going to great lengths to help those in need, often never receiving any recognition for his philanthropic efforts.
One story of such generosity in the film documents the death of Georgia farmer Lenard Dozier Hill, who committed suicide the morning his land was to go up for auction for lack of payment. Hill hoped his life-insurance policy would provide the necessary funds for his wife and daughter to pay off the land, which had belonged to his family for 100 years.
Not knowing the life-insurance policy had an exemption for suicide, his wife, Annabelle, and daughter, Betsy Sharp — who appear in the movie — were left destitute. Trump read the story in the newspaper and decided to step in, helping pay off the final $78,000 on the $300,000 debt.
This story and many others highlight a Donald Trump who is completely different from what the mainstream media would have the American people believe.
Peter Ticktin, a lawyer who has known Trump for nearly 63 years and who appears in the film, told The New American what Trump was like as a young man:
When he was my captain at the New York Military Academy, all the guys loved him…. All the other captains would kind of rule with a little bit of sadism, a little bit of corporal punishment, or maybe a lot. With Donald, it wasn’t like he usually did, and he never did. He always was a wonderful guy, and you just worked even harder for him because you never wanted to disappoint such a person. And that is how it was when he was 17…. He is still that 17-year-old kid with the same ideals that he’s always had, except he knows a lot more now.
The film also includes a brief indictment of the UN’s Agenda 2030, delivered by an unlikely messenger: WWE wrestler and celebrity Hulk Hogan. The 71-year-old, who appears extensively in the movie, condemns globalist efforts to control what the American people do with their lives, even taking jabs at the Bill Gates-backed push to eat bugs.
TNA senior editor Alex Newman and this reviewer were invited by Global Ascension Studios to attend the red-carpet premiere of The Man You Don’t Know hosted at the Mar-a-Lago Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on October 22, 2024.
We interviewed Trump’s closest friends and colleagues, and their sentiment was clear and unanimous: Trump loves God, family, and country.