WATCH: Spike Lee
Directs Anti-Trump Music Video ‘Klown Wit Da Nuclear Code’
by Jerome Hudson 4 Jul 2017
Singer-songwriter
and playwright Stew released the Spike Lee-directed
music video for his “protest song” about President Donald Trump,
entitled “Klown Wit Da Nuclear Code,” on Monday.
Released right before Independence Day, the
four-minute video features the song’s lyrics scrolling across the screen
and a mix of American slave-era photos and anti-Trump newspaper covers
from Trump’s presidency and the election.
“Now come check out the scene, everyday is Halloween/
Dead ideas waltzing from their graves/ Swipe right for information/ Bring back
that old plantation/ Only this time we all get to be slaves/” Stew sings. “‘Cuz
it’s good old boy on a fear run/ Lead by a monkey on a pearl commode/ A
toddler with a handgun bang bang bang/ A klown wit da nuclear code.”
“This song is in the American tradition of protest
songs,” Lee said in a statement, according to Variety. “The
lyrics are self explanatory — there’s a reason the words appear on the picture.
There is no album [attached to the song], it’s one and done (and hopefully not
the end of the world as we know it).”
Stew — real name Mark Stewart — won a Tony
Award in 2008 for Best Book for his semi-autobiographical rock
musical Passing Strange. The California crooner has worked
extensively with the infamous New York Public
Theater, most recently Stew’s musical “The Total Bent” play had
a twice-extended run at the Public Theater.
Public Theater
Faith Elizabeth
Gay is a trustee at the Public Theater,
a board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society, and was an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American
Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
benefactor for the Harlem Children's
Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the
NAACP Legal
Defense & Educational Fund, the Sundance
Institute, the Robin Hood Foundation,
and the Harlem Children's Zone.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike
Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Henry Louis
Gates Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, and a director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, a senior director at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund, a director at the American Friends of
Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Charles J.
Ogletree Jr. is an Oak Bluffs (MA)
homeowner, a
director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and was Barack
Obama’s college mentor.
Barack
Obama’s college mentor was Charles
J. Ogletree Jr, and was an intern at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay was an attorney at Sidley Austin
LLP, is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society, and a trustee at the Public Theater.
Mario M. Cuomo was a board of adviser’s
member for the American Constitution
Society, a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state for the New York state government, and Maria Cuomo Cole’s father.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is Mario M. Cuomo’s daughter, a
trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent
Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Kenneth D. Cole
is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and
a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Henry W. McGee
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and a trustee at the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg was a trustee at the Public
Theater, and is Martin Feinberg’s
son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown (CT) is
the location of the 2012 massacre at
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including gunman.
2011 Tucson
shootings was a mass shootings where
6 were killed & 13 injured.
Gabrielle
Giffords was a shooting victim in the 2011
Tucson shootings, and is a co-founder for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
was a board member for the American
Constitution Society, an intern at the NAACP
Legal Defense & Educational Fund.
Tonya Lewis Lee
is a director at the NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, and married to Spike
Lee.
Spike
Lee is married to Tonya Lewis Lee,
and an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Michael D. Barnes
was a senior of counsel for the Covington
& Burling LLP, and the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is a trustee at the Brady Center to
Prevent Gun Violence, Mario M. Cuomo’s
daughter, and married to Kenneth D. Cole.
Kenneth D. Cole
is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and
a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Henry W. McGee
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and a trustee at the Public Theater.
Stephen A.
Feinberg was a trustee at the Public
Theater, and is Martin Feinberg’s
son.
Martin Feinberg
is Stephen A. Feinberg’s father, and
a Newtown (CT) resident.
Newtown (CT) is
the location of the 2012 massacre at
Sandy Hook Elementary School.
2012
massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a mass shootings where 28 were killed, including gunman.
2011 Tucson
shootings was a mass shootings where
6 were killed & 13 injured.
Gabrielle
Giffords was a shooting victim in the 2011
Tucson shootings, and is a co-founder for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, a New
York (NY) mayor, a donor for the Robin
Hood Foundation, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the founder of Everytown
for Gun Safety.
Gordon J. Davis was
a New York (NY) commissioner of
parks & recreation, and is a trustee at the Public Theater.
Patricia
Fili-Krushel is the vice chair for the Public
Theater, and was a chair, news group for NBCUniversal.
Jeff
Zucker was the president & CEO for NBCUniversal,
and is a director emeritus for the Robin
Hood Foundation.
Robert W. Pittman
is a director at the Robin Hood
Foundation, and was a trustee at the Public
Theater.
Kenneth B. Lerer
was the chairman for the Public Theater,
and is an advisory board member for Everytown
for Gun Safety.
Everytown
for Gun Safety is a “Gun Safety,
Gun Control” group for guns.
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