Pedro Almodóvar Slams Trump in Fiery Speech at Lincoln Center Honors: ‘You Will Go Down in History as a Catastrophe’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/pedro-almodovar-slams-trump-catastrophe-1236380848/

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  1. >As the celebrated Spanish filmmaker expressed his gratitude for the honor at Alice Tully Hall, he said, “I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn’t respect human rights. Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.”

    >“Mr. Trump, I’m talking to you, and I hope that you hear what I’m going to say to you,” Almodóvar continued. “You will go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity… You will go down in history as a catastrophe.”

  2. Love the directness of this, and the punch of it coming at the Lincoln Center. None of the “We’re living in challenging times” (or some variation of that) weak shit that so many celebrities seem to pass off as speaking up.

  4. Just have him go down –
    never mind in history

  5. Well, history is written by the victors and so far Democracy is not winning

  6. The term “Trumpcession” (or “Trump Recession” if you really have to spell it out for the stupids) should become more widely used and popular.

    Associate the name Trump with disaster, for the history books.

  7. I still blame the American voter for this…

    Don’t ever absolve the American Voter of the blame for this!

    ETA: maybe American Citizen would be a better description than Voter.

    We had a choice.

  9. Pedro grew up in Franco led Spain. He knows an authoritarian when he sees one. Especially the kind that makes himself and his family members richer and richer while keeping the population under extremist religious rule.

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