Careening from tangent to tangent, Trump went from praising “the late great Hannibal Lecter” to falsely claiming offshore windmills are slaughtering whales. The late great Hannibal Lecter. “The late, great Hannibal Lecter is a wonderful man. ‘I’m about to have a friend for dinner.’ But Hannibal Lecter. The late, great Hannibal Lecter,” he said, apparently rooting for the villain played by Anthony Hopkins in the 1991 film.