Trump Attacks Spike Lee: He Did a 'Racist Hit on Your President'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite



by Colby Hall | Feb 25th, 2019, 7:02 am

President Donald Trump hit back at director Spike Lee early Monday morning, who made an impassioned speech about the coming 2020 general election during Sunday night’s Academy Awards presentation on ABC. Lee vocally criticized the current administration during an acceptance speech, to which Trump replied via Twitter:

Link to tweet

What is it that Spike Lee said that elicited the Trump reply? After the film he directed, The BlacKkKlansman, won Best Adapted Screenplay, Lee opened by bringing up 1619 and marking 400 years since “our ancestors were stolen from Mother Africa and brought to Jamestown, Virginia, enslaved.”

He then added “The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Let’s all mobilize, let’s all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate. Let’s do the right thing!”

While Lee clearly cited race in his speech, it is not exactly clear what the Commander in Chief found to be explicitly “racist” as claimed in his tweet.

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[mucifer]

1. the "love vs hate" sure implies it as well it should! The end of Spike's film itself calls out

trump and racism directly so there's that.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Oscar Wilde once said......

"What is worst that being talked about, is not being talked about."

I watched the Oscar show and there were no references to Donald Trump. He was NOT being talked about and that Pissed him off.

Too fucking bad, Donnie. This was not about you.

[sarge43]

4. On the other, he did score a Razzie. Appropriate. n/t

[PatSeg]

10. Oh that would explain his pissy mood

So when he heard a reference to "hate", he had to assume it was about him. That is pretty pathetic.

[47of74]

3. The Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave can't stand the heat.

[TNNurse]

5. So Trump was aware enough to realize he was being challenged.

I am surprised he understood.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. I expect Stephen Miller whispered in his ear this morning

I suspect Trump would have been too lazy to search out what Lee said; unless it was prominently featured on Fox, it'll have been a white supremacist like Miller who introduced it - "did you see that racist attack on you, Mr. President?".

[ananda]

6. I saw BlackKKKlansman.

It was good.

Why Spike Lee should make MF45 so paranoid
is pretty good .. and obvious .. too!

[pamdb]

7. Spike lee

You are not, nor will you ever be, MY president, you fat, orange, stupid ignorant piece of s@#t.

[LenaBaby61]

16. You are not, nor will you ever be, MY president, you fat, orange, stupid ignorant piece of s@#t.

[c-rational]

21. +1,000,000

[Paladin]

24. My sentiments exactly. (nt)

[dawnie51]

8. What's up with this....

"your president" bullshit? Delusional! But then, he speaks to only 25 per cent. That's all he wants to speak to, that's all he's ever spoken to, the minority of knuckle draggers who think he's swell. The rest of the country doesn't exist to him.

[PatSeg]

11. And in his 4th of July Tweet

he referred to "your favorite president". He is getting weirder all the time.

[BigmanPigman]

37. You and I are thinking the same thing.

I noticed this odd choice of words. It is like when he speaks of himself in the third person.

[PatSeg]

39. I wonder if he even realizes he is doing it

So many of his speech patterns and word choices are flat out weird, but he is getting stranger all the time. I think his mental health is declining at an accelerated rate. He talks/tweets like a satirized version of himself, maybe worse.

[PatSeg]

41. You know,

It just dawned on me, he is talking more and more like a dictator, particularly Jim Jong Un.

[BigmanPigman]

42. Both observations are correct...

he IS becoming even more unhinged and he is acting more and more like a dictator (fake national emergencies and controlling the climate scientists/researchers). We are living in dangerous times.

[PatSeg]

43. It won't be long before he refers to himself as

"Your glorious leader"!

Yes, very dangerous times and all the rational conscious people I know are in heightened states of anxiety. We have every right to be terrified. For all the things that we know he is doing, there are undoubtedly more that we won't find out until later. He is destructive often just for the sake of being destructive, which must please Putin very much.

[underpants]

15. I took that as "I'm superior" " you must bend to ME" type thing

as posted below, the same for his 4th of July tweet

[Botany]

9. It would be nice if Trump knew how to write

Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

It would be nice if Spike Lee could have read his notes better or better yet not have had to use any notes at all.
Spike attacked me despite that I have done more than almost any other President to help out African Americans
improvements have been made in criminal justice, we now have the lowest unemployment numbers in
history, tax cuts, and in other areas that helped out the black community too.

Sorry I still can't clean up gibberish.

[underpants]

12. Maybe Spike and Trump can work out some sort of Memorandum of Understanding or something.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211860808

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. Trump's gone soft: "I have done more than ALMOST any other Pres"

What has happened to his confidence and bravado I wonder?

[trusty elf]

14. and the whiner is......

[ginnyinWI]

17. And how is that National Emergency coming along??

Nice he can squeeze in enough time to watch the Oscars!

[Farmer-Rick]

18. No one thinks of Traitor Trump as their president

Except for that little man in Russia, Putin.

Not even the people who voted for him think of him as a legitimate president. His voters kowtow to him more like a king, lord or mob boss. Everyone else just sees him as an illegitimate conman.

So, that's why he has to say it. Besides it's a way of saying, "See, I'm president and you're not, so there".

[thegoose]

19. Not my president, asshole

Me me me me me me me me....

[LW1977]

20. That orange POS is not my President

[onetexan]

22. "hit on your President" is code for the Idiot's crazed minions to go after Spike Lee

i have no doubt

[Fritz Walter]

25. Good catch!

Attention all MAGAts!

Go out and buy every DVD/BluRay copy of all of Spike Lee's movies that you can find. (Forget about looking in Goodwill and other second-hand stores: the studios don't track those sales). Max out your credit cards, if you have to!* No credit card? Find a payday lender to help you fund your protest.

Then build a nice little pyramid of the discs in your back yard and let your temper tantrum loose. Burn them. Bury them. Run them over with your riding lawn mower. Whatever gives you the most joy.

Once you've caught your breath, go onto your cable system and add those movies to your On Demand list. Or, better still, find them on a streaming on-line channel. Download/add to your list. Then refuse to watch them.

That'll show Spike Lee...
After all, it worked so well with Nike, and Starbucks, didn't it?

____
*When those credit card statements arrive, just pay the minimum monthly amount. Teach the banks a lesson too, while you're at it.

[Mrs. Overall]

26. He didn't write this. He never places commas in this manner.

[orleans]

29. i agree n/t

[Cold War Spook]

38. I know he didn't write it.

It didn't say that he had done more than ANY OTHER president.

[duforsure]

27. He gets away with stuff by distractions

Like this is, and away from Acosta and Epstein ,and putin and his russian help getting elected. He starts his day by doing this with starting conflicts , where he'd rather be than talking about Acosta's involvement protecting Epstein and him and others from being gone after for seeking children who are forced into sex rings. I expect some people involved are pretty nervous now, especially Acosta who has to either tell the complete truth, or face prison with Epstein and others involved, and he will have to tell it all, or risk everything. That's what trump doesn't want it to be in the news cycle, and that's what this is about. Its not about Spike Lee at all.

[Iggo]

28. Calling a racist racist is not racist.

[TexasBushwhacker]

33. Yeah, we don't hate Trump because he's white

We hate him because he's a racist idiot.

[LibDemAlways]

30. This from a grown man who, when

reading from a teleprompter, delivers a speech in a flat monotone that sounds like a 5th grader delivering a report about a book he hasn't read. When he goes off script, Trump always sounds like a raving lunatic only worse.

[bigbrother05]

31. Right side of history, love vs hate, do the right thing - hit dog whines

Spiky Poo's speech was why Sam Jackson was so gleeful to call the winner

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. 25th amendment time

He has brain damage.

[Gothmog]

34. "your president"

trump is senile and delusional

[pat_k]

35. DT plants his flag on the hate end of the love/hate spectrum

By declaring a general call for love over hate "anti-Teump" DT plants his flag on the hate end of the spectrum. He can deny and feign otherwise,, but he knows exactly what he is.

[efhmc]

36. No tv so no Oscars but I cannot imagine SL attacking my president. I know they have had their

differences but calling my president or inferring that he is a racist just does not make any sense. My president, B Obama, is not perfect (Well in comparison he really is.) but he most certainly is not a racist.

[BlueIdaho]

40. Not my President...

Fuck the imperial shithead in the White House.

[KayF]

44. haters are a race

Lee is discriminating.