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This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldThe director also called the Capitol breach a ‘very sad day in the history of America’Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 06.38 ESTSpike Lee has likened to Hitler in an acceptance speech at a film critics awards show, adding that “the whole world is laughing at the United States”.The director made his comments when he accepted a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his short film New York, New York. The film was and Lee described it as a “love letter to its people”.Lee said the comments about the Trump were recorded on 6 January, the day of , which he said was “a very sad day in the history of America”.“We are living in a very serious time in America,” said the director. “His president, President Agent Orange, will go down in history with the likes of Hitler … all his boys, they are going down on the wrong side of history.”Lee has a history of sparring with Trump, including over Trump’s response to the 2017 Charlotteville protests, during which activist Heather Heyer was murdered by white supremacist James Fields. after an earlier acceptance speech by Lee at the 2019 Oscars.

This article is more than 1 year oldThis article is more than 1 year oldThe director also called the Capitol breach a ‘very sad day in the history of America’Last modified on Mon 25 Jan 2021 06.38 ESTSpike Lee has likened to Hitler in an acceptance speech at a film critics awards show, adding that “the whole world is laughing at the United States”.The director made his comments when he accepted a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his short film New York, New York. The film was and Lee described it as a “love letter to its people”.Lee said the comments about the Trump...

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