Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show

Director, cast and critics all agree: Civil War, the movie depicting America tearing itself to bloody bits while a cowardly, authoritarian president skulks in the White House, is not about Donald Trump. But it is, really. Likewise, the first ever criminal trial of a US president, now playing to huge audiences in New York, is ostensibly about claims that Trump fraudulently bought the silence of a former porn star called Stormy after a tacky Lake Tahoe tryst. But it isn't, really. Both movie and trial are about a Trump second term. They're about sex, lies and Access Hollywood videotape, about…