President Trump boasted Monday of the support of a pop-culture figure, this time the reclusive art-house director David Lynch.
The director, whose works include the television show “Twin Peaks” and films “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” has long cultivated the image of the Hollywood enigma, a chain-smoking transcendental mediation buff whose esoteric works can be as elusive as the interviews he occasionally gives.
Because of that, he may seem like an unlikely candidate to be mentioned at a Trump rally in a high school gym in South Carolina.
But Lynch gave a discursive interview to the British newspaper The Guardian on Saturday — part of a media blitz to mark the release of a memoir, if you could call it that — in which the subject of politics and Donald Trump came up over the course of a morning chatting with a reporter at a studio in one of the three adjacent homes Lynch owns in the Hollywood Hills.
Lynch said Trump had the potential to be “one of the greatest presidents in history,” a statement that was quickly picked up and turned into a story on the right-wing website Breitbart.
So there Trump…
