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    Sundance Film Festival 2017

    How Trump trumped the media: Documentary examines how the press got the election so wrong

    Jane Howze
    Jan 24, 2017 | 11:20 am

    Donald Trump may have officially assumed the nation's highest office in Washington, D.C., but he continues to be a major presence at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. “Trumped: Inside the Greatest Political Upset of All Time” was screened for 200 members of the press Monday in a tent off Main Street in Park City, Utah, while a ferocious blizzard caused water to drip from a leaky ceiling. Despite the less than ideal conditions no one left.

    The documentary, created by John Heilemann, who has covered every election since 1992, Mark Halperin and former Austin political operative Mark McKinnon (creators of Showtime’s The Circus) analyzes the 2016 election from the vantage point of hindsight and as a result offers an outside-the-bubble perspective of how nearly everyone in the media got the bizarre and unprecedented presidential election so wrong. It traces Trump’s entry into the race, his destruction of each Republican contender, and culminates in his surprise election victory.

    Heilemann, in the Q&A session following the film, acknowledged that Sundance booked the film when it was just an idea and that his team had worked around the clock since the election and had only finished editing the film this week.

    The highly entertaining documentary focuses on the campaign from the press’s perspective, including many of the sound bites already seen on TV. Political junkies expecting insight from his advisers will be disappointed — the filmmakers let the story unfold through replays of his press conferences, the debates and several short interviews from the Trump private jet — always with a TV on in the background. I found these particularly interesting.

    On one you can catch a glimpse of Trump from a distance talking animatedly and affectionately with Melania Trump. On another, an interviewer asks Trump if he gets coached on what to say and he says no, he doesn’t need that. He speaks from his heart. Indeed he does and the film shows that while many supporters don't like all he says, they like that he is unscripted.

    This documentary has some laugh-out-loud parts, perhaps because truth can sometimes provide the best humor. Does anyone remember in 2015, when then-President Obama was asked if he could imagine Trump as president and he replied “yes, in a Saturday Night Live skit?” Similarly Trump’s comments about his….er…manhood, when replayed, had many in the audience chortling. If you just watched those snippets, you could see how the election was so shocking.

    Yet, through the lens of hindsight, the spectacle of the Trump plane pulling up to a hangar full of supporters, the excitement of the crowds (one young woman stated “I grew up watching him on The Apprentice”) and the politically incorrect and supremely confident Trump provided a moment of “How did we all miss this?”

    The film chronicles election night at Hillary Clinton’s extravagantly outfitted Jacob Javits Center election party that included a glass ceiling and a stage in the shape of the United States. One of the first signs that all was not going well was NBC's Andrea Mitchell telling the filmmakers that she is getting unsettling reports from Michigan. The film shows the shock and dismay of the filmmakers: “We were wrong and we need to figure out why.”

    Concluding the Q&A, Heilemann was asked by someone who was tactfully critical of the press (this is Sundance after all — not many openly Trump supporters here), asking what happened to reporter objectivity. He replied that everyone agrees the press is “fucked up” but they disagree on why.

    Some critics have taken the filmmakers to task for not trying to destroy Trump. He commented, “I think that it is incumbent on journalists not to become dispassionate because that’s phony. I think you should be passionate for the things that matter which are things like truth and accountability. We should try to represent the interests of the country and to hold people in power accountable and try to stay focused on what is true and which is false. “

    Even those who didn’t vote for Trump will find this documentary interesting, entertaining and instructional for future campaigns —even though, in the documentary, Bernie Sanders warns that an election should not be sport or a soap opera. The documentary will be screened on Showtime on February 3.

    In one segment, an interviewer asks Trump if he gets coached on what to say and he says no, he doesn’t need that. He speaks from his heart.

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    Singer Conan Gray coming to Houston on 2026 world tour

    Alex Bentley
    Oct 20, 2025 | 2:15 pm
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    Conan Gray will play at Dickies Arena on March 10, 2026.

    Singer-songwriter Conan Gray will follow up his 2025 Wishbone Pajama Show Tour with the Wishbone World Tour in 2026, which will include a stop at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth on Tuesday, March 10.

    The limited, 19-city 2025 tour will be more than doubled by the 42-city global run, which kicks off on February 19 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to Fort Worth, Gray will play in Houston on March 11.

    The tour starts in North America before heading to Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, with dates scheduled over the course of eight months, ending October 8. He will be joined by special guest Esha Tewari on all dates.

    Gray is touring in support of his fourth studio album, Wishbone, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Album Sales chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 when it came out on August 15, marking the highest chart debut and biggest sales week of his career.

    The singer, who spent his teenage years in Georgetown, Texas, has maintained a steady popularity despite only one of his songs - "Heather" in 2020 — making onto the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

    Fans can participate in the artist presale by signing up at conangray.lnk.to/tour through October 21. The presale begins on October 23; no codes are needed and anyone who signs up can join the sale.

    The general onsale will begin on Friday, October 24 at 9 am local time.

    CONAN GRAY: WISHBONE WORLD TOUR DATES

    • Thu Feb 19 – Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
    • Sat Feb 21 – Fishers, IN – Fishers Event Center
    • Mon Feb 23 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
    • Wed Feb 25 – Boston, MA – TD Garden
    • Fri Feb 27 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
    • Sat Feb 28 – Belmont Park, NY – UBS Arena
    • Mon Mar 02 – Philadelphia, PA – Xfinity Mobile Arena
    • Wed Mar 04 – Raleigh, NC – Lenovo Center
    • Fri Mar 06 – Atlanta, GA – State Farm Arena
    • Sat Mar 07 – Orlando, FL – Kia Center
    • Tue Mar 10 – Fort Worth, TX – Dickies Arena
    • Wed Mar 11 – Houston, TX – Toyota Center
    • Fri Mar 13 – Glendale, AZ – Desert Diamond Arena
    • Mon Mar 16 – Seattle, WA – Climate Pledge Arena
    • Wed Mar 18 – Sacramento, CA – Golden 1 Center
    • Fri Mar 20 – Los Angeles, CA – Kia Forum
    • Tue May 5 – Dublin, IE – 3Arena
    • Thu May 7 – Birmingham, UK – bp Pulse LIVE
    • Sat May 9 – Manchester, UK – AO Arena
    • Sun May 10 – Glasgow, UK – OVO Hydro
    • Tue May 12 – London, UK – O2 Arena
    • Thu May 14 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Ziggo Dome
    • Fri May 15 – Antwerp, BE – AFAS Dome
    • Sat May 16 – Dusseldorf, DE – Mitsubishi Electric Halle
    • Mon May 18 – Paris, FR – Adidas Arena
    • Thu May 21 – Hamburg, DE – Sporthalle
    • Sat May 23 – Oslo, NO – Unity Arena
    • Mon May 25 – Stockholm, SE – Avicii Arena
    • Tue May 26 – Copenhagen, DK – Royal Arena
    • Thu May 28 – Berlin, DE – Max-Schmeling-Halle
    • Fri May 29 – Krakow, PL – Tauron Arena
    • Sun May 31 – Prague, CZ – O2 Universum
    • Mon June 1 – Vienna, AT – Wiener Stadthalle
    • Wed June 3 – Bergamo, IT – ChorusLife Arena
    • Sat June 6 – Madrid, ES – Palacio Vistalegre
    • Sun June 7 – Lisbon, PT – MEO Arena
    • Sat Sept 26 – Auckland, NZ – Spark Arena
    • Tue Sept 29 – Brisbane, AU – Brisbane Entertainment Centre
    • Thu Oct 1 – Sydney, AU – Qudos Bank Arena
    • Sat Oct 3 – Melbourne, AU – Rod Laver Arena
    • Mon Oct 5 – Adelaide, AU – Adelaide Entertainment Centre
    • Thu Oct 8 – Perth, AU – RAC Arena
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