Frustrated Auteur Trump Declares 100% Tariff On Movies Made Elsewhere

You may not know this, but the young Trump wanted to produce films, applied to film school at USC and didn't make it. So this has overtones of young Adolph not being accepted in art school, only with dementia.

El Cheeto said yesterday that he is authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to start the process for enacting a 100 percent tariff on American films that are produced in “foreign lands,” also known as runaway productions. Via Rolling Stone:

Trump called runaway productions “a national security threat” and claimed it’s causing the movie industry to die “a very fast death” in a post on his social media platform Truth Social, adding that Hollywood and other areas of the country “are being devastated” over films produced in “foreign lands.”

“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.

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