Watch: Out Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar Unloads on Trump at Lincoln Center Honors

Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, the force behind queer favorites like "Strange Way of Life" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown," gave Donald Trump a verbal two-reel takedown at the Lincoln Center Honors on April 28, Variety reported, declaring that the American president would "go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time."

Almodóvar delivered his jeremiad while accepting "the 50th annual Chaplin award from Film at Lincoln Center on Monday evening in Manhattan," the entertainment news outlet detailed.

In his speech, which was delivered in English, Almodóvar took direct aim at the firehose of lies and distortions the White House has used in a strategy known as "flooding the zone" in order to sow chaos and drown out dissent. The 75-year-old filmmaker – whose recent films include "Parallel Mothers," which is in part an allegory for the ongoing repercussions of the Spanish civil war and its atrocities – called out a handful of the president's most jarring narratives, declaring unequivocally that "Immigrants are not criminals" and "It was Russia that invaded Ukraine," despite Trump's assertions that Ukraine had been the aggressor in the ongoing war.

"The director also cited Trump's attacks on transgender rights, citing the case of transgender actress Hunter Schafer, star of HBO's 'Euphoria,'" Deadline detailed. "She has said that her U.S. passport lists her as a male, even though she selected female when filling in the application."

"Almodóvar called such new policies 'cruel.'"

Added Variety: "Growing up under fascism under Francisco Franco, Almodóvar said that movies provided a form of escapism."

Now, as the United States pursues policies that many decry as attacking democracy, the "Pain and Glory" director declared, "I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn't respect human rights." He compared coming to the U.S. with venturing to "China, Russia, or North Korea..."

Under the current administration, immigration authorities have reportedly harassed, denied, and detained visitors from other countries. In a widely reported incident, Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian woman with a visa to work legally in the United States, was taken into custody and remanded to detention facilities run by private contractors for two weeks. In another incident, legal U.S. resident Fabian Schmidt, 34, originally from Germany, was detained and reportedly "violently interrogated" and "put under pressure to give up his green card" when he attempted to return from a trip overseas.

Still, Almodóvar braved the perils of travel to the U.S. to attend the occasion, and while he was there he spoke his mind.

"Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do," the director declared.

The current administration has not only reportedly harassed and detained foreigners entering the U.S., but also mounted a campaign of removing immigrants, with masked law enforcement officers snatching people off the street and students off campuses, bundling them into unmarked vehicles, and deporting them without due process. The Trump administration has claimed that many of those deported are members of a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua, despite such claims not being backed by evidence – and some "evidence" is reportedly suspected to have been manufactured by the administration.

Almodóvar "dedicated his award to the 'thousands deported in recent weeks,' as well as to Schafer and to Harvard University," Deadline relayed. "He recognized the latter institution for not surrendering to Trump's 'war on knowledge and culture.'"

In a daring direct address to America's current head of state, Almodóvar stated, "Mr. Trump, I'm talking to you, and I hope that you hear what I'm going to say to you. You will go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity."

Summarized the director: "You will go down in history as a catastrophe."