Lena Dunham compares President Trump to Dylann Roof

Sep 26, 2017

On Monday, comedian Lena Dunham took to Twitter to compare President Donald Trump to Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

“Not only is he a racist but he’s a racist with untreated mental illness,” the “Girls” star wrote, adding, “So under diff circumstances he’s Dylann Roof.”

Roof was convicted in December of 33 hate crimes after he shot and killed nine people at a black Charleston church in July 2015 with the expressed purpose of causing a race war.

— Trump White House advisers used private email accounts —

Not only is he a racist but he's a racist with untreated mental illness. So under diff circumstances he's Dylann Roof.

— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) September 25, 2017

Dunham also weighed in on the debate raging about NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem, a debate that Trump waded into on Friday during a rally in which he claimed that the NFL should fire anyone protesting and anyone kneeling a “son of a b***h.”

“Do people get how much bravery it takes to stand up to the pres, whether you’re rich or not? These players are black Americans. Along with the president’s ire they get every violent racist who supports him. They are deluged with threats. Have to shield their families,” she tweeted.

“I’m not an NBA player, I’m just some random white girl on cable reruns, and since the election the violence in my feed has been terrifying. Imagine their national stage, the abuse they know they’ll get for doing the right thing and the fact that they do it anyway? True applause.”