Raoul Peck Blasts ‘Incredible Ignorance’ of Trump White House, Compares Project 2025 to Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’: ‘We’re in the Hands of Crazy People’
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck blasted the Trump administration at the Joburg Film Festival on Wednesday, insisting that the world is at the mercy of “crazy people” who have put the lives of millions at stake.
“We are in the hands of a bunch of crazy people who have an agenda that was totally written out in Project 2025, the same way that Hitler wrote ‘Mein Kampf,’” Peck said. “All of it was there to read, and everybody thought he was making a joke. No. They are applying what they said they were going to do.
“The question is…what are we going to do [in response]?” he added. “We can’t tweet our way out of this one.”
The Haitian filmmaker also lashed out at the administration’s dismantling of Usaid and its disruption of the trans-Atlantic alliance, saying Trump is “breaking up what it took decades to build” after such institutions were...
“We are in the hands of a bunch of crazy people who have an agenda that was totally written out in Project 2025, the same way that Hitler wrote ‘Mein Kampf,’” Peck said. “All of it was there to read, and everybody thought he was making a joke. No. They are applying what they said they were going to do.
“The question is…what are we going to do [in response]?” he added. “We can’t tweet our way out of this one.”
The Haitian filmmaker also lashed out at the administration’s dismantling of Usaid and its disruption of the trans-Atlantic alliance, saying Trump is “breaking up what it took decades to build” after such institutions were...
- 3/13/2025
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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