Sean Penn rips Trump’s coronavirus response during Cannes Film Festival press conference

“We were — not only as a country, but as a world – let down and openly neglected, misinformed,” he said of Trump and the task force he put together, according to Variety. “We had truth and reason assaulted under what was in all terms an obscene administration. When my team and I would come home from test and vaccinations sites at night, particularly during testing under Trump, to maddening news — it felt like someone with a machine gun gunning down communities that were most vulnerable from a turret at the White House.”