Trump is now mad at movies: 'Hollywood is racist'

President Trump on Friday decided to randomly attack Hollywood as "racist" and movies as "dangerous for our country" in response to an unrelated question.

Trump while speaking to reporters on the South Lawn was asked a question about conservatives being banned on Twitter, which, for whatever reason, inspired the president to try his hand at film criticism.

"Hollywood is racist," Trump decided. "What they're doing with the kind of movies they're putting out, it's actually very dangerous to our country. What Hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country."

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Trump, who previously went after violent video games in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, provided no further explanation for these comments and immediately began talking about social media again when he referenced having representatives for these companies at the White House.

It's possible Trump's sudden hatred for movies was sparked by reports, including from Fox News, about Universal's upcoming film The Hunt, a horror-satire in which liberal elites hunt "deplorables" for sport, ads for which were pulled in the wake of the recent mass shootings. But Trump didn't clarify that, making it equally possible he's actually upset about Bruce Lee's depiction in Once Upon a Time in ... Hollywood or is a massive Roma fan just now catching up on the Oscars six months late. Brendan Morrow