Trump accuses Spike Lee of 'racist hit on your president'

February 25, 2019 23:09

Donald Trump has complained about a racist hit he said Spike Lee carried out on him at the Oscars.

The film-maker, 61, won his first competitive Academy Award, best adapted screenplay, for his film BlacKkKlansman, which was also nominated for best picture.

Lee received an honorary Oscar in 2015.

In his acceptance speech, which he read from a sheet of notes, Lee referred to February being Black History Month and discussed slavery and its legacy, particularly within his own family. His great-grandmother, he said, was a slave.

Lee said: Before the world tonight I give praise to our ancestors who built this country into what it is today along with the genocide of its native people. If we all connect with our ancestors we will have love, wisdom and regain our humanity. It will be a powerful moment.

The 2020 presidential election is around the corner. Lets all mobilise, lets all be on the right side of history. Make the moral choice between love versus hate.

He concluded by referring to one of his most famous films: Lets do the right thing! You know I had to get that in there.

Around dawn on Monday, from the White House, Trump duly responded with a nasty personal jab.

He wrote: 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.

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