It looks like actor–producer–director Jordan Peele (“Get Out”) isn’t happy with Tiger Woods golfing with President Donald Trump on Friday:
“Now you’re in The Sunken Place” https://t.co/Ndv3Xv8Xya
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) November 24, 2017
Peele was responding to this Golf Digest tweet:
Before @TigerWoods makes his return next week, he's teeing it up (quickly) with President Trump and DJ today: https://t.co/u700uU2z4B pic.twitter.com/xAX8i9wZQS
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) November 24, 2017
The “Sunken Place” is in reference to Peele’s 2017 hit film “Get Out” and in case you didn’t see the film, it’s not a compliment. From The Wrap:
What is the sunken place? Superficially, it’s a brainwashing technique. See, in “Get Out,” a young black man visits the family of his white girlfriend, experiencing an increasingly ominous series of microaggressions, until the reveal comes: He has been lured there to be kidnapped, sold into a form of slavery, and lobotomized so that his body can be hijacked by the white person who purchased him. Part of what makes it possible is a kind of hypnosis, which separates the consciousness of the victim from control of the body.
Earlier this year, Peele explained that the Sunken Place is a metaphor for all African-Americans:
We're all in the Sunken Place.
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 17, 2017
The Sunken Place means we're marginalized. No matter how hard we scream, the system silences us.
— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) March 17, 2017
As for the golf game, the press was kept away but a member of Trump’s Jupiter club shared pics online:
The President with Dustin Johnson, Tiger Woods , Brad Faron, at Trump Jupiter, a great Potus & host pic.twitter.com/MJ3Hr4DNj5
— Dr. Eric Kaplan (@drekaplan) November 24, 2017
The President and Tiger Woods enjoying a moment, both and n great spirits pic.twitter.com/g353Ma4sxS
— Dr. Eric Kaplan (@drekaplan) November 24, 2017
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