He's awesome:

http://deadline.com/2015/11/kirk-douglas-speaks-out-trumbo-career-threatened-blacklist-1201629542/

(emphasis mine)
“As actors it is easy for us to play the hero. We get to fight the bad guys and stand up for justice. In real life, the choices are not always so clear. The Hollywood Blacklist, recreated powerfully on screen in Trumbo, was a time I remember well. The choices were hard. The consequences were painful and very real. During the blacklist, I had friends who went into exile when no one would hire them; actors who committed suicide in despair. My young co-star in Detective Story (1951), Lee Grant, was unable to work for twelve years after she refused to testify against her husband before the House Un-American Activities Committee. I was threatened that using a Blacklisted writer for Spartacus –– my friend Dalton Trumbo — would mark me as a “Commie-lover” and end my career. There are times when one has to stand up for principle. I am so proud of my fellow actors who use their public influence to speak out against injustice. At 98 years old, I have learned one lesson from history: It very often repeats itself. I hope that Trumbo, a fine film, will remind all of us that the Blacklist was a terrible time in our country, but that we must learn from it so that it will never happen again.”

Burt Lancaster too.

They both chose some of their parts based on issues they felt important.

Around the time he won his Oscar another great actor. If you haven't seen a A man for all seasons is something you must put on your movie Bucket List.
Kirk Douglas. Awesome any day.

I'd heard that he'd basically told the blacklisters to go fuck themselves, but I'd never seen that story visually presented. Kirk Douglas has always been a total badass.

For all those that haven't seen the movie Trumbo, see it. And for all those who haven't read Trumbo's masterpiece, Johnny Got His Gun, read it. It should actually be mandatory reading for anyone running for higher office.

Lately, we have seen how Donald Trump has engaged in bigger and bigger lies daring the media to fact check him, and threatening and accusing them of bias when they do. Of course, is Donald Trump really unprecedented in his approach to lying? Or, did he have inspiration?

Here is Donald Trump in The Art of the Deal on "exaggeration":

I consider Trump's questioning of Obama's citizenship an example of a Hitler-like "big lie" too.

One of the objectives was to show quotes that foreshadowed the coming events of the Second World War that was not difficult. The sheer drivel, paranoia and egomania of Hitler that was difficult. I have tried to read the Art of the Deal several times in the last couple months wth Hitler it appears to me in contemporary comparison had much more control and if were in a deal with Trump would have devoured him.

boat. Have had it almost a week. I am sick of being sick.

Highly recommended. He grew up dirt-poor, son of Russian immigrants, in upstate New York.

He should be first on the list of Human Beings Against Trump.