Spike Lee calls Donald Trump a “gangster” over protests response

nme.com:

"He's trying to be a dictator" Spike Lee has spoken out against Donald Trump‘s reaction to the protests taking place across the US.

The US President, who threatened to deploy the military in response to the looting and rioting following the death of George Floyd, was described by the director as “a gangster”, who added “he’s trying to be a dictator” in an interview with the BBC.

In reference to Trump’s photograph posted on Monday (June 1), in which the president posed holding up a Bible in front of a fire-damaged church from walking distance of the White House, after clearing demonstrators from his path, Lee said: “I was watching this last night with my family and we were all screaming in disbelief that this thing was staged. “This show of