Spike Lee: Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst US president
Spike Lee has said the world will be “in peril” if Donald Trump is re-elected as US president.
The film-maker, 63, told GQ Hype he is uncertain whether Trump will be voted out in November, despite criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and protests against racial injustice.
He told the publication: “I’m not certain about anything. How do we know he’s not going to try to rig the thing again?
“If this guy wins, the world is in peril. Not just the United States Of America. The world."
Trump will “go down in history as the worst president of the United States of America”, Lee continued.
Lee also spoke candidly about the death of George Floyd, which has sparked Black Lives Matter protests in the US and around the world.
“I thought automatically ‘Eric Garner’,” he said about the video footage of Floyd’s death.
“I mean, it was obvious to me that our brother has seen footage of Eric Garner. He said, ‘I can't breathe.' He's saying, 'You're killing me.'”
He continued: “You know, these are snuff films! And I'm not saying that in a derogatory way, because black and brown people are getting killed left and right without cameras, so if there's no camera... But even with the camera there's no guarantee cops are gonna go away.
"So if there's no footage then you know they’re gonna walk.”
Asked if it concerned him that his new film, Da 5 Bloods, will not be seen on the big screen because of the epidemic, he replied: “Even if it bothered me, what am I gonna do?
“I’m glad people are seeing it … The world has changed. Everybody had plans.
“Why should I be different? And what about the 100,000 people in the United States who died? They had plans. They had plans, too.”
Lee won an Oscar for his film BlackKklansman in 2019, which followed a black police officer who infiltrated the Klu Klux Klan.
Read Spike Lee's full interview online at GQ Hype.
