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Trump Goes After Spike Lee After Oscars Speech

by Associated Press

   WASHINGTON --

   President Donald Trump is going after director Spike Lee, who used his
   Oscar acceptance speech to urge mobilization for the 2020 election.

   Trump tweeted Monday that Lee did a "racist hit on your President."
   Trump claimed that he had "done more for African Americans" than
   "almost" any other president.

   Lee won for best adapted screenplay for his white supremacist drama
   "BlacKkKlansman," sharing the award with three co-writers. The film
   includes footage of Trump after the violent white supremacist protests
   in Charlottesville, Virginia.
   Lee did not directly name Trump. He spoke about black history and his
   family history, saying his grandmother's mother was a slave, before
   stressing the presidential election next year.
   Said Lee: "Let's all be on the right side of history. Make the moral
   choice between love versus hate."