Ken Burns Suspends 'Longstanding Attempt At Neutrality' to Utterly Torch Trump
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"There is no real choice this November," the documentarian warned in a commencement address in which he also ripped Trump as the"opioid of all opioids."
Filmmaker Ken Burns ditched his trademark political neutrality during an undergraduate commencement address at Massachusetts’ Brandies University to warn what will happen to the U.S. if former President Donald Trump wins back the White House.
“For nearly 50 years now, I have diligently practiced and rigorously tried to maintain a conscious neutrality in my work, avoiding advocacy if I could, trying to speak to all of my fellow citizens,” the documentarian explained to the audience in the May 19 ceremony, footage from which is gaining attention online.
Burns later acknowledged he’d been forced “to suspend my longstanding attempt at neutrality” because “there is no real choice this November.”
Watch Burns’ full address here:
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