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John Carpenter Lays Into Trump and GOP: “This Return of Racism … It’s Horrible”

The legendary director shared his thoughts on the upcoming election while revisiting his 1988 film 'They Live' on The Hollywood Reporter's 'It Happened in Hollywood' podcast

After host Seth Abramovitch noted that Trump “fits right into the They Live world” — where an alien race moves silently among humans, brainwashing them into doing things like “obey” and “consume” — Carpenter, 76, said, “Of course it does. He discovers a pair of sunglasses that reveal the true nature of society — that a race of bug-eyed aliens have camouflaged themselves to look like regular people and are feeding subliminal messages through advertising and media to keep them supplicated and obedient. It has gone on to be hailed as a science-fiction classic, inspiring everyone from artist Shepard Fairey to the band Green Day, who paid homage to it in their “Back in the USA” video.

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