Spike Lee tells Trump to stop calling COVID-19 the 'Chinese virus,' says he's putting Asian Americans 'in danger'

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'This is no joke. It's not some movie. People are dying.'

Lee, who also serves as the president of Cannes Film Festival's jury, spoke about how the president should stop calling coronavirus"the Chinese virus" and wondered why no one had asked Trump to stop.

On Thursday, Cannes festival director Thierry Fremaux announced that the annual French film festival was going to be postponed from its planned dates between May 12 and 23. Lee said he supported the decision to postpone the festival to possibly June or July. While Lee said he'd like to appear at the festival when it's rescheduled, he also said to not lose sight of the seriousness of coronavirus and the global pandemic.

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