American
actor-director
Sean
Penn
is
making
headlines
because
of
his
comments
about
former
US
President
Donal
Trump.
Sean
recently
attended
the
Cannes
Film
Festival
Competition
for
the
premiere
of
his
film
Flag
Day,
which
received
much
love
like
his
previous
five
directorial
projects.
During
the
press
conference
that
follows
the
film's
screen,
Sean
opened
up
about
Donal
Trump.
The
director
compared
Trump's
response
to
the
coronavirus
pandemic
to
"someone
with
a
machine
gun" spreading
misinformation.
He
said,
"We
were
-
not
only
as
a
country,
but
as
a
world
-
let
down
and
openly
neglected,
misinformed.
We
had
truth
and
reason
assaulted
under
what
was
in
all
terms
an
obscene
administration.
When
my
team
and
I
would
come
home
from
test
and
vaccinations
sites
at
night,
particularly
during
testing
under
Trump,
to
maddening
news
-
it
felt
like
someone
with
a
machine
gun
gunning
down
communities
that
were
most
vulnerable
from
a
turret
at
the
White
House."
Meanwhile,
he
also
opened
up
about
contrast
in
the
administration
of
President
Biden
and
said,
it's
"like
a
sunrise." He
praised
that
the
task
force
put
together
by
President
Biden
is
"really
that
feeling
like
a
sun
was
rising.
There
was
no
effort
of
integrity
coming
from
the
federal
government
until
the
Trump
administration
was
dismissed."
Coming
back
to
the
film,
Flag
Day
reportedly
narrates
the
touching
and
troubled
relationship
between
a
father
(Sean)
and
his
daughter
(the
actor's
own,
Dylan
Penn).
The
film,
based
on
Jennifer
Vogel's
2004
memoir,
Flim-Flam
Man:
The
True
Story
of
My
Father's
Counterfeit
Lie,
is
about
a
girl
growing
up
with
a
father
who
is
sneaky,
a
compulsive
liar
and
a
petty
thief.