Author: Kimberly Nordyke / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
“You are causing suffering and division. It’s not too late to turn the ship around,” Lynch wrote on Facebook in an open letter to the president.
David Lynch is reversing course on complimentary comments he made recently about President Donald Trump, saying they were “taken a bit out of context.
”Speaking to The Guardian over the weekend, the Montana-born filmmaker recently said he believes that Trump could be remembered as one of the best presidents of all time for his unique way of approaching the job. “He could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much,” Lynch said. “No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.”
He added that Trump stands out where other politicians have failed. “Our so-called leaders can’t take the country forward, can’t get anything done. Like children, they are. Trump has shown all this,” Lynch continued. His comments came as a surprise to mostly liberal Hollywood.
For his part, Trump tweeted out a story with Lynch’s quotes, aggregated by conservative website Breibart.com, on Monday. He also read the quotes during a rally in South Carolina that same day to applause…
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