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Spike Lee says Trump ‘will go down in history with the likes of Hitler’
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Spike Lee arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
Film director Spike lee has likened former US President Donald Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in an acceptance speech at a movie critic awards show, according to The Guardian.
Accepting a special award from the New York Film Critics Circle for his short film “New York, New York,” Lee comments on the January 6 Capitol riots in remarks he says were recorded on that day.
“We are living in a very serious time in America,” he says. “This 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.”
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