In the movie, the unnamed President critiques the breakaway forces. The film opens with the unnamed leader practicing a speech Later in the movie, the band of journalists are shown making their way to Washington, in the hope of interviewing an embattled President, and are practicing their questions, which gives a bit more clue about the events leading to that: The response is that is a softballing question, implying events have far progressed beyond that constitutional question. But there is the thought that if a President did decide to run for a third term, and essentially refuse to leave, would that embolden him to take further dodgy actions. Because the more hardballing questions discussed were: Could speculate that this fictional President has disbanded the FBI to avoid an investigation, and that he has taken extreme measures against protestors. Later Still later, as a plot device to show events unfolding, and to further frame what their interview would be The film ends with armed uniformed forces, presumably the "Western Alliance", who wear flag flashes with a stylised stars and stripes, but only 2 stars, indicating Florida is not part of this, overrunning the Whitehouse. The "interview" is brief So the Western Forces were likely Constitutionalists, hence their efforts to leapfrog over the midwest (the film shows cgi'd fleets of Chinooks etc) to capture Washington, and depose what they viewed as an illegal President. But the "Florida Alliance" might well point to an actual breakaway, indicating likely conflict is not over. During the film, there is a grim scene when the journalists come across a group of uniformed men presiding over a mass grave. Its not clear if the men are actual military, or self appointed militia, because their attire isn't exactly full rig, and one of them is wearing those specs you seen only in gun clubs. But it lets us know that Americans are divided because the "soldier" asks them, at the point of a gun, what kind of Americans they are. And then murders the journalist from Hong Kong when he discovers he's not American. The group are forced to recite examples of Americana to prove themselves, such as why Missouri is the Show Me state.
