James Gunn Trashes MAGA, Praises Communist China

Far-Left 'Superman' director's fawning overseas speech falls on deaf ears

“Superman” director James Gunn knows where his bread is buttered. Or, at least he thinks he does.

Gunn capped a furious marketing blitz for his Man of Steel reboot by attacking Trump supporters in The Times of London. He described his new film as an ode to immigration – conflating the legal and illegal varieties as dishonest liberals do.

Gunn took it a step further. He said, “screw” those who don’t agree with his worldview. The comments swiftly went viral. He must have anticipated that reaction.

[...] Yet the same Gunn went out of his way to praise Communist China during the press push in the Middle Kingdom.

“Superman is a movie for everybody across the world, and it’s especially for the people of China,” Gunn said during his visit to the country. “China is the most important place for me in terms of where I learned to make movies and how I love to make movies.”

It got even more embarrassing.

“Even though I’ve only been to China once before, it’s like coming home to me,” Gunn gushed. “These are the movies that fueled this — it does not exist without this.”

Gunn wouldn’t describe his own country that way. He’s gone on record as comparing President Donald Trump to Hitler – multiple times. Heck, he didn’t even deploy Superman’s signature line, “Truth, justice and the American way” in his film.

[...] Why would Gunn praise China, a country rife with human rights abuses, and attack MAGA? He wanted more Chinese citizens to see his film and fewer right-leaning Americans to do the same.

Is there any other answer that makes sense?

More importantly, Gunn is less offended by Chinese officials holding Uyghur citizens in concentration camp-like centers and crushing speech than Trump voters clamoring for sealed borders and energy independence.