Novelist and “Black Bird” creator Dennis Lehane went off script Tuesday to call out Donald Trump’s $45 million military parade Saturday commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary — and, yes, the president’s June 14 birthday. He called the spectacle “the height of performative masculinity.”

Speaking to TheWrap for his new Apple TV+ project, “Smoke,” the acclaimed author (“Gone, Baby, Gone,” “Mystic River,” “Shutter Island”) briefly weighed in on Trump’s antics, calling him a draft dodger and even comparing the president to a “whiny little bitch” character from the new series.

“I usually steer away from politics,” Lehane said, bringing up the topic himself, “but let’s just say, on one very simple issue, to be a draft dodger who’s trying to throw yourself a military birthday parade i

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