http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/17/ken-burns-trump-stanford/86045676/
Filmmaker Ken Burns gave a blistering attack on Donald Trump during Stanford’s commencement speech last Sunday. In an interview with USA TODAY this week, he said it was his “responsibility as a citizen to say that.”
Burns — who has produced award-winning documentaries — told USA TODAY that he’s attempted to stay neutral for his entire professional life, but this time he had to speak out.
“I am keenly aware of historical movements in the past — not just in this country but in other countries — that have been hugely disastrous, catastrophic even for human history. It’s imperative when we have the ability in a democracy to avoid these kinds of things to do so and you don’t do that if you’re just tweeting out a mean tweet.”
In the speech Sunday, Burns said Trump had “dictatorial tendencies of the candidate with zero experience” and a “terrifying Orwellian statesman.”
“For 216 years our elections — though bitterly contested — had featured the philosophies and characters who were clearly qualified; that is not the case this year,” Burns said during his speech. He added that Trump (though he did not say his name) was “glaringly not qualified.”
“Before you do anything with your well-earned degree. You must do everything you can to defeat the retrograde forces that have invaded our democratic process,” Burns added.
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