Spike Lee: 'I don't know how people can be true Americans' and go along with Trump 'path'
Spike Lee is calling Donald Trump potentially winning back the White House a "doomsday" scenario, saying he's incredulous how "true Americans" can support the former president.
"He said there should be no more elections. I don’t know how people can be true Americans and just go along with that path," Lee said of Trump during a Monday interview on MSNBC's "The Beat."
At an event hosted by a conservative Christian organization in July, Trump said voters wouldn't have to head to the polls again if they elect him in November because "everything" would be "fixed."
"It would be a doomsday, I think," the "Do the Right Thing" director, a supporter of Vice President Harris's White House bid, said if Trump wins next month's election.
Lee, who on Monday was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Biden at the White House, said, "I'm not the only one to say that this possibly could be the most important presidential election in the history of this country. That’s how dire this is."
"This is not a joke. It’s not funny. This is like life and death," Lee, 67, said.
He also defended former President Obama's appeal to Black male voters earlier this month while campaigning for Harris.
“We have not yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running," Obama said while speaking in Pennsylvania.
“You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” he said. “I’ve got a problem with that.”
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” the former president continued.
"I gotta give credit to President Obama because he's been going really hard on the brothers — some might think too hard, but I don't think so. We gotta wake up and don't go for the okie doke, the flim-flam — can't do that," Lee said.
"It's sad but true, some of my brothers have been drinking that Kool-Aid and I just hope that they get their minds straight, get their minds right, in time for this election," Lee told host Ari Melber.
"If they're conscious, if they're aware, there's nothing that this other guy can do that's going to put us — not just Black folks — but Americans, in a better position going forward."
"We gotta support our sister to be the first woman president of the United States of America and the first sister," he said of Harris.
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