Editing Citizen Kane (section)

==Political themes==
[[Laura Mulvey]] explored the anti-fascist themes of ''Citizen Kane'' in her 1992 monograph for the [[British Film Institute]]. The ''News on the March'' newsreel presents Kane keeping company with Hitler and other dictators while he smugly assures the public that there will be no war.<ref name="McBride">{{cite book |last=McBride |first=Joseph |date=2006 |title=What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career |url=https://archive.org/details/whateverhappened00jose |location=Lexington, Kentucky |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-2410-7}}</ref>{{Rp|44}} She wrote that the film reflects "the battle between intervention and isolationism" then being waged in the United States; the film was released six months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, while President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] was laboring to win public opinion for entering World War II. "In the rhetoric of ''Citizen Kane''," Mulvey writes, "the destiny of isolationism is realised in metaphor: in Kane's own fate, dying wealthy and lonely, surrounded by the detritus of European culture and history."<ref name="Mulvey"/>{{Rp|15}}

Journalist [[Ignacio Ramonet]] has cited the film as an early example of [[mass media|mass]] [[media manipulation]] of public opinion and the power that media conglomerates have on influencing the democratic process. He believes that this early example of a media mogul influencing politics is outdated and that today "there are media groups with the power of a thousand Citizen Kanes."<ref>{{cite news |last=Ramonet |first=Ignacio |author-link=Ignacio Ramonet |title=Set the media free|newspaper=[[Le Monde diplomatique]]|location=Paris, France |url=http://mondediplo.com/2003/10/01media |date=October 2003 |access-date=December 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141009054523/http://mondediplo.com/2003/10/01media |archive-date=October 9, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Dedijer |first=Miki |title=The man behind Attac |publisher=Dedijer Media AB |location=Stockholm, Sweden |url=http://dedijer.com/article_frames.asp?picts=1&article=The_man_behind_Attac |date=2000 |access-date=December 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132406/http://dedijer.com/article_frames.asp?picts=1&article=The_man_behind_Attac |archive-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> Media mogul [[Rupert Murdoch]] is sometimes labeled as a latter-day ''Citizen Kane''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2162658.stm |last=Walker |first=Andrew |title=Rupert Murdoch: Bigger than Kane |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 31, 2002 |access-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131210822/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2162658.stm |archive-date=January 31, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Tuccille |first=Jerome |author-link=Jerome Tuccille |title=Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media Empire |publisher=Beard Books |location=Washington D.C. |date=1989 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2mj1FcArTE8C&pg=PR14 |isbn=978-1-58798-224-8 |page=xiv |access-date=October 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507051931/https://books.google.com/books?id=2mj1FcArTE8C&pg=PR14 |archive-date=May 7, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Comparisons have also been made between the career and character of [[Donald Trump]] and Charles Foster Kane.<ref>{{cite news |title= People think this scene from Citizen Kane predicted Trump's reaction to the election 79 years ago |url= https://www.indy100.com/ents/trump-us-election-citizen-kane-9724414 |newspaper= [[The Independent]] |date= November 5, 2020 |first= Greg |last= Evans |access-date= February 18, 2021 |archive-date= April 16, 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210416085305/https://www.indy100.com/ents/trump-us-election-citizen-kane-9724414 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= How Trump's Favorite Movie Explains Him |url= https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/donald-trump-2016-citizen-kane-213943/ |newspaper= [[Politico]]|date= June 6, 2016|first=Benjamin|last=Hufbauer}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Is Donald Trump Charles Foster Kane in disguise? |url= https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-donald-trump-citizen-kane-similarities-politics-20150826-column.html |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=August 26, 2015 |first=Michael|last=Phillips}}</ref> ''Citizen Kane'' is reported to be one of Trump's favorite films, and his biographer [[Timothy L. O'Brien|Tim O'Brien]] has said that Trump is fascinated by and identifies with Kane.<ref>{{cite AV media |people=Tim O'Brien |date= January 20, 2021|title= The Trump Show: Donald Trump and Citizen Kane |medium= Television production |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p094kbgc |publisher= BBC}}</ref>