Segueing from the Oscars to Donald Trump — as all topics these days must — the guy in the Oval Office is interpreting Spike Lee's call to "make the moral choice between love versus hate" as a racist attack on Trump. Hey, why miss a chance to fire up your base to think you're fighting off those evil non-white people? As Jonathan Chait notes…
In theory, a president could listen to a call for making the moral choice of love against hate and doing "the right thing" and interpret it as an endorsement — or, at minimum, a nonpartisan statement. Trump processed it as a personal attack.
Chait also notes that bashing Lee from reading from notes was a callback to the claim that Obama was too dumb or ill-informed to not use a TelePrompter, even though of course he often spoke without one. Trump uses one too and he oughta use one more often…but then he doesn't care about getting things right.