Trump did not dwell on the issue for long. Shortly afterward he tweeted about “oil prices getting too high,” and a forthcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea (“With complete Denuclearization, North Korea will rapidly become an Economic Powerhouse,” he wrote).
[Read Lee’s speech here.]
Theo Dumont, Lee’s publicist, said the director would not be commenting on Trump’s tweet.
“BlacKkKlansman” is based on the story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. In interviews around its release, Lee said he wanted to draw a link between the Klan and events today. “We had to connect David Duke to Agent Orange,” he told The New York Times, using his own term for the president.
At the end of “BlacKkKlansman,” Lee included footage of the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that descended into violence when protesters clashed with counterprotesters. He then showed footage of Trump saying there was blame on “both sides” for those events.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/25/movies/spike-lee-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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