Michael Moore shares video showing Trump's dummy getting punched, kicked in the face
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, on Sunday, April 19, slammed President Donald Trump and his controversial call to "liberate Michigan" by posting a montage video of the Republican's dummy being punched and kicked by people. The filmmaker also called for a party at his house on Election Day, November 3, and invited people on social media feed to join in.
"November 3. Right around 8pm ET. Party’s at my place. All are welcome," Moore tweeted in response to Trump's "LIBERATE MICHIGAN" tweet made on April 17. The president tweeted a series of messages directed at swing states with Democrat governors. The Republican, in multiple tweets in all caps, wrote: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!", "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" "LIBERATE VIRGINIA and save your second amendment, it is under siege." Multiple critics slammed the President's tweets, accusing him of inciting violence and threatening the lives of the governors.
Trump's tweets came shortly after thousands of protesters took to the streets in Michigan, asking to relieve the lockdown measures in effect to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
The 'Bowling for Columbine' director also expressed his disapproval through the Trump dummy video, and called for a party, presuming the Republican will lose the 2020 presidential elections.
Moore has consistently criticized Trump's response to the deadly novel coronavirus outbreak in the country, recently denouncing Trump for claiming "there's nothing to worry about" when it comes to the virus outbreak in the country. The famous filmmaker also exclaimed that Trump was dangerously making the coronavirus a "partisan" issue. Moore, last month, had suggested that Trump was more dangerous than the coronavirus because he was creating a "false ignorance" by spreading misinformation. Moore made the statement while talking to MSNBC anchor Brian Williams.
"If you have the president telling people it's a hoax -- that there's nothing to worry about, that it will disappear as he said yesterday, and it'll be a miracle ... which is more dangerous? The virus or a president who says that," the filmmaker said. "Because at least if we were honest and knew everything about the virus, and the facts were all out there, science could start to deal with it."
Moore stressed that America needs to begin the process of combating the new coronavirus. "Whatever innoculation, whatever we need to come up with, whatever we need to invent, we can start that process. But the fact that we have only a few hundred test kits in this place or that place -- that there's no effort at all ongoing right now to deal with the shot or whatever we need to get if we need to get it," he said.
The filmmaker argued that Trump's statement was "the most dangerous thing I've ever heard a president say in my lifetime."
The 'Fahrenheit 9/11' director, last week, had also slammed "white men" for not taking responsibility to make "amends for the Trump era."
Moore, in his podcast 'Rumble with Michael Moore', had said: "Men — especially white men have a big responsibility to make amends for the Trump era,” Moore said on Thursday. “Those amends will happen. People will see the error of their way."