Trump jokes David Lynch's career is 'over' for praising his presidency

[Speaker to the Yanks]

Source: The Guardian

Tue 26 Jun 2018 04.50 BST

Donald Trump has joked that David Lynch’s career in Hollywood is “officially over” after the maverick film director suggested in a Guardian interview that Trump could go down as one of America’s greatest presidents.

Trump seized on the comment by the reclusive director of Blue Velvet, Eraserhead and Twin Peaks during a typically freewheeling, hour-long speech that ranged from North Korea and space rockets to facelifts and fake hair, yet made no mention of family separations at the southern border.

A Guardian article published on Saturday noted that Lynch, who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, is undecided about Trump. “He could go down as one of the greatest presidents in history because he has disrupted the thing so much,” he told the paper. “No one is able to counter this guy in an intelligent way.”

The article added that Lynch thinks while Trump may not be doing a good job himself, he is opening up a space where other outsiders might. “Our so-called leaders can’t take the country forward, can’t get anything done. Like children, they are. Trump has shown all this.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/trump-david-lynch-career-over-praise-presidency

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Would that it were so. Mr Lynch is a twisted misogynist. That he should have any kind words for a twisted, misogynistic president is sadly unsurprising.

[MontanaMama]

1. Darn it.

I’ve been a Twin Peaks fan forever. I didn’t know David Lynch was an asshat. 😑

[forgotmylogin]

31. I wonder if he meant it in the context of

Trump has caused so much destruction that anyone who follows can only rebuild - "greatest" in the sense of "biggest influence" or "most significant". I hope Lynch isn't being an asshat and was talking backward like he enjoys doing.

Plus, Lynch has always been a weird outsider. INLAND EMPIRE was filmed on Hi-Def video cameras on his own dime with no support of the Hollywood system.

Not a very watchable or great movie IMO, but...

[JI7]

2. is Lynch Enjoying what is going on with the Migrant Kids right now ? the thought of revolution

exciting him ?

[AlexSFCA]

3. it goes on to show a major overlap between bernie and trump

Trump and Bernie 100% overlap on trade policies which is a major part of presidency.

[lagomorph777]

28. Nice. Re-fighting 2016 again. Vladimir thanks you.

[TomCADem]

30. Putin Was Actually Supportive of Bernie and Trump

Bernie is the left’s answer to Dana Rohrabacher. Look at his votes on Russian sanctions and Magnitsky Act. The votes speak for themselves.

[LiberalLovinLug]

35. +1000

No opportunity wasted to sow division for some.

I'd like someone fresher to win the next primary than Bernie, but with the same solid ideals.

But I'd love to see what happens to this place if Bernie ran and won next time. The hair pulling and gnashing of teeth would be palatable......sadly.

[brush]

4. Didn't think I'd ever agree with trump but he's right about...

Lynch's career IMO. I'll never watch or patronize anything of his again.

[Laffy Kat]

6. Make that two of us.

I like some of his work but his misogyny always bothered me. This will do it.

[lagomorph777]

29. His stuff was always too creepy for me. Now I know why.

He's a creep.

[Tarc]

5. Lynch's words are being taken a bit out of context, and the pres is citing Breitbart's skewed take

and not Lynch's actual words, which are critical of the system that allowed someone like Trump to flourish in the first place.

He's still being a bit of an typical white, privileged male asshole about it all, but to paint Lynch as an out-and-out Trump cheerleader is misleading.

[JI7]

9. what you say is what's in the OP and Lynch's position is still fucked up

[Tarc]

36. It actually didn't, but, thanks for trying

https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-lynch-rebukes-trump-causing-suffering-division-191859676.html

Lynch himself noted the selective quoting, and addresses the Vulgarian directly.

[rockfordfile]

7. The pos is a Sanders supporter.

[the_sly_pig]

18. I love Bernie.

The guy made a career out of working for the common man. I'd be interested to know why you feel he's a POS.

[AllyCat]

20. Because there is a need for people to find a scapegoat

And now that the horrible 45 is ruining our country, many on this board and elsewhere need someone to blame. And that has to be Sanders in their eyes. Not our horrible voting machines, not the electoral college, not the Russians, and not the racists that have come crawling out of the muck.

[mikeysnot]

24. True

and they totally give the republicans a pass.

[SammyWinstonJack]

41. Bernie bashing, it never ends.

[lunamagica]

33. You didn't ask me, but I'll just list one reason why he is one

He lobbied hard to dump Vermont's toxic waste in Sierra Blanca, a region where the poorest Hispanics live. But Sen. Paul Wellstone, a true progressive and someone who really worked for the common man, stepped in and saved them from Sanders. Paul Wellstone was a true hero.

[Lint Head]

8. Even Jack Kerouac ended up an alcoholic Joseph McCarthy loving

Catholic hating bigot. Most self absorbed geniuses are troubled or confused.

[JI7]

10. Bernie Sanders has been in Congress for about 28 years

so what's he talking about with the outsiders bs ?

[braddy]

11. I googled the name and I still don't know who he is.

[wolfie001]

17. He was relevant in the '80s

When Sheena Easton was a "big star".

[heliarc]

22. Twin Peaks

Which is why Showtime gave him an entirely new season of his classic show Twin Peaks. If you think he isn't still relevant you're a little bit disconnected. He's certainly relevant among the hollywood cogniscenti which controls a significant portion of our country's cultural outreach... and his position on Trump is nuanced and makes a some sense. If Trump continues his current path and the Mueller investigation doesn't tank him, then Trump will have succeeded in setting a bunch of precedents on extended powers for the office. In essence that's what Lynch was saying... and he's kind of right.

[jb5150]

12. That's a real stretch to say that Lynch was praising Trump ...

but hasn't Lynch's career been over for quite a while?

[heliarc]

23. No it hasn't

Lynch just completed a very highly critically acclaimed new season to his classic Twin Peaks last year on Showtime. I thought the new season was excellent. I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, and some criticize him for being misogynistic, but critics, hollywood, and European audiences loves him... and that is a huge market share even if it's not the Marvel movies. Thank you for saying its a stretch to say he's praising trump... The only possible praise was for breaking the bureaucratic status quo.

[RockRaven]

13. Lemme hold my breath a minute

while I worry about some dude whose career is defined by a TV series (Twin Peaks) based on a fictional rape/murder and a movie (Mulholland Drive) best known for being a possibly-non-linear incoherent-psychodrama with a "hot girl-on-girl" scene in the middle. Yes. Be still my beating heart.

JEEEEEESUS. Who gives a flying f*ck what David Lynch thinks about politics, or about Trump, or about 17th century Dutch painters, or about high-altitude-growing conifers, or about garlic-flavored poultry sausages? WHY would anyone care what David Lynch thinks about ANYTHING?

Except *maybe* his next film/TV/artistic project for the sake of artistic/pop-culture curiosity? It's not like anyone outside his circle of intimates knows the guy enough to do so.

[Kablooie]

14. I think Lynch just likes shaking things up and going against the grain.

That's his M.O.

He said he's not interested in politics but likes how Trump is able to do anything he wants and no one can stop him.
I think he just likes anyone who's an iconoclast and isn't aware of what Trump's actions really mean.

[Puzzledtraveller]

38. That's exacly how I saw it

also a big fan, and perhaps understanding his M.O. as you put it "which I loved" makes it a little easier for some of us to get.

[ChicagoRonin]

15. David Lynch is . . .

. . . the least of our problems.

[J_William_Ryan]

16. Made peace with this decades ago...

Always enjoyed Clint Eastwood’s movies and his performances, and he’s among the more reprehensible rightwing scumbags.

[Liberalagogo]

19. Can't stand Eastwood

But I get holy hell here for liking Sarandon's performances.

[Puzzledtraveller]

39. same

In fact I watched The Good Bad and The Ugly for the countless time this weekend, no one will have me tossing Lynch aside either.

[betsuni]

21. I've never liked Lynch's work.

Gave me the creeps.

[mikeysnot]

25. that was his intent.

[betsuni]

26. He succeeded then. I don't care.

I love Hitchcock's "Rope" and "Rear Window" about murder, but Lynch has nothing of interest for me.

[Puzzledtraveller]

40. Watched the Rope in middle school circa 1987

Hooked me.

[erpowers]

27. Lynch's Statement Is Stupid

David Lynch's comment is like saying someone who pooped their pants is a genius because he refused to use the bathroom the way everyone else has been trained to and agrees to do. Trump has not disrupted the system. Trump has been exposed as not knowing what he is doing. It can also be argued that he has been exposed as being lazy. How has he changed, or disrupted the system? What is different now then before he became President? He claimed he was going to drain the swamp. It can be argued that the swamp is even worse than before he became President.

One's inability to get something done within a system is not a sign that they have disrupted a system; it is a sign that that person is incompetent. As I said before, Trump's incompetence has been exposed. We are seeing that much of what he said about himself, if not all of what he said about himself, was a lie.


As far as people supposedly not being able to counter him "in an intelligent way", people have countered him. How many loses has this man taken since getting elected? These loses come even though his party controls all the levers of power in Washington, D.C.

[AllyCat]

43. Then read RS today and see why this was taken out of context

[Blue_Tires]

32. As if Donnie could name even one of Lynch's projects...

[cp]

34. Perv's career has been over for years

[Puzzledtraveller]

37. You talking about Woody Allen?

Lynch, a perv, career over for yeaars, where do you get that BS from?

[AllyCat]

42. Now that this has gone viral over DU, I suppose THIS will fall on deaf ears

and unseeing eyes:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/david-lynch-to-donald-trump-you-are-causing-suffering-and-division-w522084