Former President Bill Clinton requested a private screening of the 1996 sci-fi hit Independence Day at the White House—and fled the screening room after the film’s most iconic scene. Director Roland Emmerich recalled the bizarre moment in an oral history of the film recorded by The Hollywood Reporter for its 25th anniversary and re-shared as the real-life White House is under attack from bulldozers ordered up by President Donald Trump. “When we got to the moment the White House blows up, Roland and I are looking at each other going, ‘We’re in the White House watching it blow up,’” writer-producer Dean Devlin told THR. “Then, who runs out? Bill Clinton!” Emmerich added. The pair noted that, during test screenings, audiences wouldn’t leave for a bathroom break until after the iconic scene, b

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