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Posted: 2020-02-21T01:58:29Z | Updated: 2020-02-21T13:12:21Z

President Donald Trump complained during a rambling rally in Colorado Springs about the South Korean blockbuster Parasite winning the Academy Award for Best Picture earlier this month, saying he wished an English-language movie akin to Gone with the Wind had won instead.

How bad were the Academy Awards this year? Trump asked the crowd on Thursday. And the winner is a movie from South Korea. What the hell was that all about?

Weve got enough problems with South Korea with trade, he continued. On top of it, they give them the best movie of the year? Was it good? I dont know.

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Trump goes off on the Oscars for giving Best Picture to Parasite because it's a South Korean movie pic.twitter.com/GUGKdExTbw

Claudia Koerner (@ClaudiaKoerner) February 21, 2020

The president went on to say that when the Best Picture award went to Parasite a history-making decision in which it became the first non-English-language movie to nab the honor he thought it was merely for best foreign film. (Parasite did win the award for International Feature Film as well.)

Im looking for like lets get Gone with the Wind, can we get Gone with the Wind back, please? Trump rambled, naming the 1939 epic that romanticizes slavery . Sunset Boulevard. So many great movies. The winner from South Korea, I thought it was best foreign film. Best foreign movie. No did this ever happen before?

It hadnt.

Director Bong Joon Hos film shattered expectations , nabbing four Oscars and bringing praise to South Koreas long-overlooked film industry . Bong has been hailed as a hometown hero in Seoul.

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Neon, the U.S. distributor of the film, responded to Trumps comments with a terse statement of its own on Thursday.

Understandable, Neon wrote on Twitter , he cant read.

Trump spent his time in Colorado touting his accomplishments in office, lambasting the recently concluded impeachment inquiry and reflecting on why he hasnt earned more praise. He said he was disappointed not to have been made Times Person of the Year (the honor went to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg), and said he and his supporters deserved the honor in perpetuity.

When the world revolves around all of us, we should be chosen; theres nothing wrong with it, Trump told his supporters. I mean, weve won it, but we should win it every single year.

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