The screenwriter behind the classic 1971 adaptation of Charlie & the Chocolate Factory has slammed Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ visa program as the antithesis of everything the film represents. “It’s the anti-Willy Wonka,” Dave Seltzer, 85, told The Washington Post. “If Willy Wonka were asking $5 million to give someone a gold ticket, this movie wouldn’t have flown.” In the film, protagonist Charlie Bucket’s discovery of the golden ticket offers him a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to escape a life of poverty—a stark contrast to the unattainable path to citizenship that Trump’s golden visa represents to the downtrodden. “It’s the realization of opportunity for a poor boy, for a boy whose family is suffering and who can’t catch a break,” Seltzer said of the golden ticket. “What it represented is wha

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