Regardless of how Jean-Claude Van Damme really feels about his career, there's no denying that he was on top of the world in the late 1980s. Though he lost his chance to be in a massive franchise, Jean-Claude was making movies that really appealed to his core fanbase. But in 1988, Jean-Claude achieved cult status with Bloodsport.

The Newt Arnold-directed film follows Jean-Claude's Frank Dux as he leaves the American military to compete in underground martial arts fights in Hong Kong. It's silly, it's violent, and it's insanely fun. At least, former President Donald Trump thinks so.

According to a profile of Donald Trump done for The New Yorker in 1997 by journalist Mark Singer, the former President is obsessed with the movie. Not only that, but he has a very strange way of watching it. Here's everything we know about Trump's odd obsession with the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic.

6 What Is Donald Trump's Favorite Movie?

There's a bit of an argument about what Donald Trump's favorite movie actually is, according to an oral history of his obsession with Bloodsport by MEL Magazine. Despite Bloodsport being the focus of part of his New Yorker profile, there's a lot of talk about how Trump's favorite movie is Citizen Kane.

"Bloodsport is not his favorite movie," Mark Singer said to MEL Magazine. "It’s well documented that Citizen Kane is his favorite. For the Oscars one year, Errol Morris was commissioned to interview a whole bunch of people about their favorite movie and one of the people he asked was Trump and he said Citizen Kane."

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However, Allison Wilmore, a BuzzFeed writer and author of "How Donald Trump Totally Missed The Point of Citizen Kane — And Won" said, "It feels like a bit of a put-on when he’s trying to talk about Citizen Kane, yet with Bloodsport it seems like that’s his go-to when he’s relaxing in his element and being true to himself."

5 Why Donald Trump Loves Bloodsport

Given how little Donald Trump has said about Bloodsport, we don't know precisely why he loves the over-the-top movie which holds a 6.8/10 rating on IMDb. But Presidential historian Mike Purdy believes he understands why Trump is so taken with the macho martial arts movie:

"It doesn’t surprise me that Trump has such love for an action movie, he certainly envisions himself as a decisive man of action," Mike said. "Just looking at the title, Bloodsport, that certainly makes sense as he doesn’t leave any insult against him unanswered. By his own admission, he’s a “counter-puncher” and he will fight back pretty viciously against anybody who says anything against him."

4 The Strange Way Donald Trump Watches Bloodsport

In his New Yorker profile, journalist Mark Singer revealed that Donald Trump has a very stranger way fo watching Bloodsport.

"We were all in an airplane when it was being screened, and Eric Trump, who was then about 13 years old, was in charge of fast-forwarding," Mark wrote in his piece.

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"Eric must’ve done this before because he knew what his job was, which was to get to the fight scenes and skip this other stuff. It was very Trump-like. As for Eric, he was given a job to do, and he was happy to do it. There he was at 13 years old, and he reached his life’s greatest accomplishment by fast-forwarding through that movie."

3 Why Donald Trump Fast-Forwards Through Bloodsport

As for why Donald Trump watches Bloodsport in this way, Mark said that he wouldn't want to speculate about the reason or if he does this with other movies. But again, Allison Wilmore believes she knows why:

"Like many of the things about Trump, him fast-forwarding through the boring parts of Bloodsport feels so “on-brand” that it almost seems made up," she said. "I will say about Bloodsport that, for a lot of people of a certain generation, you would encounter Bloodsport because it was running on daytime cable. There were a lot of people who watched half of Bloodsport because that’s when you’re flicking through channels and you’re like, 'Ah, tournament to the death!'"

2 What Donald Trump Has Said About Bloodsport

The only thing we know that Donald Trump has said about the movie was in the context of The New Yorker profile. He pointed out that Mark also seemed to be enjoying the Jean-Claude Van Damme film.

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The following is a segment from Mark's piece:

"'Admit it, you’re laughing!' Trump shouted. ‘You want to write that Donald Trump was loving this ridiculous Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, but are you willing to put in there that you were loving it, too?'"

1 Other Presidents' Favorite Movies

A number of former Presidents have been major movie-buffs. According to Presidential historian Louis Picone, Ronald Reagan absolutely loved Dolly Parton's 9 to 5.

"But he didn’t like the scene where they were smoking pot. He was also really into Rambo, and he liked to invoke Rambo during his campaign. I also heard that he was a fan of Back to the Future," Louis said to MEL Magazine.

Author of "Here are 13 American Presidents’ Favorite Movies of All Time", Meryl Gottlieb wrote: "Obama has a lot of pop-culture favorites, but as far as films go, The Godfather tops his list. George W. Bush cried during Field of Dreams, but he also enjoyed the mindless humor of Mike Myers’ Austin Powers character. In 2008, Bill Clinton did an interview with Roger Ebert to talk all things cinematic. In the interview, he followed Eisenhower’s and Reagan’s footsteps in citing High Noon as his favorite movie. Nixon would rave about Patton to anyone who would listen and urge everyone to watch it. On a very different — and musical — note, Nixon also enjoyed James Cagney’s fun turn in Yankee Doodle Dandy. JFK also had a huge passion for Bond."