La La Land director Damien Chazelle joins Twitter to denounce Donald Trump across 10 tweets

'I hope the epic moral failure we're witnessing now will inspire a new activism'

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Oscar-winning director Damien Chazelle has signed up to Twitter specifically to call for President Trump's impeachment because he believes "anyone in a position of power who stays silent is complicit".

Chazelle is generally quite reserved in terms of his public utterances, usually keeping his interviews concentrated on film, but he condemned Trump and his recent words and actions in no uncertain terms over 10 tweets.

Here they are stitched together:

"Decided to join Twitter because I feel a responsibility to add my voice to the chorus. The Trump administration is openly endorsing Nazism and white supremacy. It's that simple. We're living a historic moment. Things don't often come this clear-cut. Anyone in a position of power who stays silent is complicit. I hold out hope. That the GOP will come to its senses and call for impeachment. That voters lured by Trump's economic promises will finally wake up. And that we as a country will learn from this. That this moment will do away once and for all with "politics don't affect me", "I don't feel like voting", etc. That the epic moral failure we're witnessing now will inspire a new activism. Might be naive. But in the meantime, I'm gonna try to do whatever I can. I gotta believe every little bit helps. Spread the word. Donate to @Blklivesmatter , to @ACLU , to the @NAACP, to @PPact , to @swingleft. And call on the GOP as passionately as possible: impeach this loathsome misogynist racist."

A few hours later, he mused on the First Amendment:

"Been thinking about free speech. I grew up partly in a country (France) where, for example, it's illegal to publicly deny the Holocaust. That kind of curb on free speech might not be palatable here in the States. Even if it were, might be very much the wrong approach. But let's be clear: we live in a country where right now only white men enjoy the privilege of unfettered free speech. How many white supremacists were arrested in Charlottesville? 4. How many protestors were arrested in Ferguson? 155. THAT is the state of free speech in America today."

A press conference the president held at Trump Tower earlier in the week was perhaps his most incendiary yet, during which he renewed his attack on the press and reiterated that he believes "both sides" were to blame for what happened in Charlottesville.