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Pedro Almodóvar Blasts Donald Trump As “The Greatest Mistake Of Our Time” As Director Accepts Lincoln Center Award


The director was accepting an award from Lincoln Center.

Receiving the center’s Chaplin Award, Almodóvar told the crowd, “I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authoritarian leader who doesn’t respect human rights, and whom it seems nothing can stop on his race to change fragile world balance. The blackout has affected Spain, Portugal and parts of France, and has halted travel and transportation and disrupted other operations. During a trip to London in 1952, his reentry permit to the U.S. was revoked Chaplin had been the target of gossip columnists and of government investigations for his political leanings, although he was not a member of the Communist party.

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