Spike Lee Compares Each 2016 Contender to One Of His Famous Characters

Spike Lee once compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Now, the man who boycotted this year’s Oscars for ignoring minorities is comparing Trump’s fellow presidential candidates to characters in his films.

Lee is currently hitting the campaign trail for Bernie Sanders (probably because Sanders is the best basketball player on the 2016 court and Lee loves basketball) and while feeling the bern in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he was asked which of his characters had the most in common with Trump.

Here’s what he said, per THR:

I mean, I did a film called Summer of Sam. (Laughs.) It was about the infamous summer of 1977, New York City [when so-called Son of Sam David Berkowitz killed six people]. And there was a certain person who had the whole city in terror.

Lee went on to say that Hillary Clinton was Ruby Dee in Jungle Fever. Sanders, he said, was Do the Right Thing‘s Mayor Ossie Davis.

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