While Steven Spielberg’s latest drama The Post has been praised for being overtly anti-Fake News and starring two of Hollywood’s most vocal Donald Trump critics — Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks — the President’s White House has requested the movie for their screening rooms.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox has obliged, sending copies to both the White House and Camp David, where Trump will host a summit this weekend.
Hollywood studios have long sent copies of their movies to the White House, Trump being no exception — one screening of Finding Dory making headlines last year.
Hanks has previously been asked whether he would personally attend a screening of The Post at the White House, saying “I don’t think I would.” “I didn’t think things were going to be this way last November.