--- title: James Corden Sends Donald Trump 297 Copies of Philadelphia description: James Corden revealed that he sent President Trump 297 copies of the movie Philadelphia as a message about HIV/AIDS awareness. canonical: https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-21T14:58:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:43.733Z og:title: Why James Corden Sent Trump 297 Copies of Philadelphia og:description: On AIDS: "Maybe Donald Trump doesn't care because he's never seen Philadelphia" og:url: https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e1f56ae23e0186d/6988d2948fd2ee5d96357a44/philly.jpg?branch=production&width=735&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 735 og:image:height: 413 og:image:alt: Philly og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why James Corden Sent Trump 297 Copies of Philadelphia twitter:description: On AIDS: "Maybe Donald Trump doesn't care because he's never seen Philadelphia" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e1f56ae23e0186d/6988d2948fd2ee5d96357a44/philly.jpg?branch=production&width=735&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # James Corden Sends Trump 297 Copies of _Philadelphia_ to Mar-a-Lago as HIV/AIDS Awareness Message > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 21, 2017 2:58 PM UTC   by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 21, 2017 2:58 PM UTC Following the recent resignation of six members of the [Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS](http://time.com/4824456/trump-hiv-aids-council-resign/) in protest of the [Trump administration’s health policies](http://time.com/4825741/gop-republican-health-care-bill-obamacare/), [James Corden](http://time.com/4808774/james-corden-late-show-london-attacks/) sought to bring attention to the situation by sending the President a message about HIV/AIDS awareness. During Tuesday night’s episode of _The Late Late Show_, the host revealed that upon hearing this news, he and his team sent 297 copies of the movie _Philadelphia_ — the 1993 drama that earned Tom Hanks an Oscar for his role as Andrew Beckett, an attorney who is an AIDS patient — to Trump’s Florida hotel Mar-a-Lago. “We hope that if Trump watches _Philadelphia_, he’ll understand two things,” he explained. “One, Tom Hanks definitely deserved that Oscar. And number two, we hope that he’ll realize that HIV and AIDS is something that you or any president of the United States ― or any world leader for that matter ― can never afford to ignore.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/"},"headline":"James Corden Sends Trump 297 Copies of Philadelphia to Mar-a-Lago as HIV/AIDS Awareness Message","datePublished":"2017-06-21T14:58:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:43.733Z","description":"\"Maybe Donald Trump doesn't care because he's never seen Philadelphia\"","url":"https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television","The Late Late Show","james corden","The Late Late Show with James Corden"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e1f56ae23e0186d/6988d2948fd2ee5d96357a44/philly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e1f56ae23e0186d/6988d2948fd2ee5d96357a44/philly.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Philly","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4826498/james-corden-donald-trump-philadelphia-hiv-aids/","name":"James Corden Sends Trump 297 Copies of Philadelphia to Mar-a-Lago as HIV/AIDS Awareness Message"}}]}] ```