Trump Twitter Fact Check: Was Michael Moore's Broadway Debut Forced To Close?

The latest target of President Donald Trump’s Twitter rant has been documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore.

POTUS tweeted Saturday that Moore’s Broadway debut in “The Terms of My Surrender” was a flop, but Playbill claimed to fact-check the information, and published a report saying Trump’s claim was not accurate.

Trump made a “not at all presidential” attack against Moore, telling the world his Broadway show was a “total bomb” that was forced to close early due to poor rating. However, according to the report published by Playbill, a magazine for theatregoers, that was not the case since the show was already scheduled to end Oct. 22.

When the show was announced in May, it was mentioned at the time it would play for a 12-week limited engagement. It opened officially at the Belasco Theatre on Aug. 10, and despite not being a box-office front-runner, it did play its scheduled run.

But the president played off the scheduled close of the show as a forced closure. Moore did not take Trump’s less-than-accurate attack on his profession lying down. He launched a tirade of tweets as a reply to the POTUS’ false claim.

Moore criticized Trump for going after him instead of tweeting about issues of national importance, such as soldiers who were getting killed in the “never-ending war” in Afghanistan or the people of Puerto Rico still living without electricity after Hurricane Maria tore through the area last month.

Moore went on to defend his show, explaining what “limited engagement” meant, also adding that Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, was a fan of the very show that Trump was calling a flop.

There is a history of the bad blood between Trump and Moore, who is a well-known anti-Trump activist. The very tagline of Moore’s one-man Broadway show was “Can a Broadway show take down a sitting President?”

"It’s a humorous play about a country that’s just elected a madman — I mean, there’s really no other way to put it," Moore told the New York Times in an interview. "We’re 10 blocks from Trump Tower, we’re in the corporate capital of America, we’re in the financial capital of America, we’re in the media capital of America... If one was going to stand on a stage and do the things that I’m going to do, there’s only one place to do it, and it’s here in this city and it’s right here at the epicenter of creative expression and free speech."

More is also currently working on “Fahrenheit 11/9,” a film about the Trump administration. To collect enough information for his latest project, he launched a website called "TrumpiLeaks" in June, which is a platform for whistleblowers.

“Today, I’m launching TrumpiLeaks, a site that will enable courageous whistleblowers to privately communicate with me and my team,” Moore said in a letter on the site. “Patriotic Americans in government, law enforcement or the private sector with knowledge of crimes, breaches of public trust and misconduct committed by Donald J. Trump and his associates are needed to blow the whistle in the name of protecting the United States of America from tyranny.”