How did Charlie Chaplin use his experience with McCarthyism in A King in New York?

Charlie Chaplin used his personal experiences as a victim of McCarthyism to create his 1957 film, A King in New York. Having been forced into self-imposed exile from the United States due to political pressures and investigations, Chaplin utilized the film as a platform to satirize the anti-communist "witch hunts" that had targeted him and others during the 1950s.12

In the film, Chaplin fashioned a sharp diatribe against the political climate and social foibles of 1950s America. By depicting these events through a satirical lens, he directly addressed the hostility he faced from the U.S. government, which had previously threatened to deny his reentry into the country based on accusations of a political nature and moral turpitude. Although the film was intended as a critique of these American policies, it was not released in the United States until 1973.12