Pedro Almodóvar used his speech after receiving the 50th Chaplin Award in New York to criticize Donald Trump's transphobia.
In addition to the largest blackout in the history of Spain, the night of April 28 will be remembered for the speech of Pedro Almodóvar after receiving the 50th Chaplin Award in the Lincoln Center de New YorkThe La Mancha native improves with age and refines his words more with each appearance. Almodóvar He has never held back and since his beginnings he has taken a stand on every occasion, his activism is increasingly combative and he is not intimidated by anyone.Mr. TrumpI'm talking to you. You won't go down in history as the world's greatest governor. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence (…) You will go down in history as a catastrophe" he said from the stage to a devoted audience. Direct and without hesitation.
"I have to admit that there have been times when I have hesitated to come and accept this award. In the same way that I would not go to China, Russia or North Korea, I have doubted whether it was appropriate to come to your country, presided over by a authoritarian and narcissistic lunatic", he confessed. "An authoritarian lunatic who disrespects human rights and seems unable to stop anything in his quest to change the fragile global balance.".
Against transphobia
The filmmaker charged against the president of United States and its transphobic policies: «The Immigrants They are not criminals; Zelensky he is not a dictator, Putin yes it is; it was Russia the one who invaded Ukraine; Hunter Schafer, the wonderful co-star with Zendaya de Euphoria, is a woman. Although she was assigned the stigmatizing 'M' of masculine when renewing the passportThat cruel whim of the bureaucrats of Trump The fact that there are only two genders does not change the nature of the human being and the sexual diversity of each one.".
He dedicated the honorary award to the thousands of deportees, to the beautiful Hunter Schafer (the trans actress from Euphoria who has been denied her gender identity when renewing her passport) and the university of Harvard, for not surrendering to the war of Trump "against knowledge and culture with weapons that are lies and misinformation". "Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, want to convince us that the reality we see with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are experiencing. He twists words to give them meanings that are not true. Immigrants are not criminals.”. Paraphrasing Patty Diphusa, farted, and walked off. The audience stood up and gave him a standing ovation.
