Steven Soderbergh misses the Previous Hitler.

The “Intercourse, Lies and Videotape” auteur instructed Selection how a lot he pines for President George W. Bush.

God, the George W. Bush-era looks as if the golden age now. Who would have thought we’d discover ourselves wishing that issues had been that straightforward?

The 2-term Republican president was slammed as Hitler all through his White Home days. Kanye West even instructed a telethon viewers that Bush didn’t “care about black folks.”

That was information to African nations that acquired billions in assist from the forty third president.

Soderbergh shared that thought and extra throughout a Selection Q&A tied to his newest movie, “Black Bag.” The thriller stars Michael Fassbender as an intelligence officer tasked with investigating his spouse for treasonous ties. The movie co-stars Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, Pierce Brosnan and Regé-Jean Web page.

Soderbergh shared particulars in regards to the movie till the interviewer nudged the dialog into modern-day politics.

It’s all of the excuse he wanted to tee off on President Donald Trump.

…we’re in a spot proper now the place our concepts of what that workplace means are evolving. Now we have to ask ourselves if these conventional tropes of “good man, dangerous man” are actual anymore. Now we have anyone in that workplace whose habits principally aligns with the habits we’d name villainous in a film, proper? And but, he was elected by lots of people. It makes you marvel if we acquired this fallacious. Are folks going to the flicks and rooting for the villain, and we’ve simply been pretending that that’s not true? 

Soderbergh didn’t weigh in on the earlier president, who hid his dementia from the general public, handed Afghanistan over to the Taliban and waged struggle in opposition to free speech on a number of fronts.

Maybe his subsequent Selection chat will deal with these points.