Director Todd Haynes: Hollywood Must Resist Trump’s ‘Barbaric Assault on American Democratic Institutions,’ His ‘Hateful Campaign Against Trans People’

Director Todd Haynes: Hollywood Must Resist Trump’s ‘Barbaric Assault on American Democratic Institutions,’ His ‘Hateful Campaign Against Trans People’


Resurgent President Donald Trump is popular, getting things done, and making good on a liberating agenda as promised during last year’s election campaign. Those three things are enough to have sparked a grim warning Sunday that Hollywood’s gilded elites need to oppose and resist Trump to avoid being “contaminated” by the radical changes he is delivering.

American film director Todd Haynes gave his warning while speaking to AFP in Berlin, where he heads the jury at the city’s Berlinale film festival.

The director of Far from Heaven and Carol said he was shocked – yes, shocked – by what he called Trump’s “barbaric assault on American democratic institutions.”

“It is an appalling moment that we’re in right now that will take every bit

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