Watch Trump home movies instead
You have got to be kidding.
Fears Trump’s foreign film tariffs could ‘wipe out’ UK movie industry
Trump’s WHATS???????
Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US could wipe out the UK film industry, ministers have been warned, as they came under immediate pressure to prioritise the issue in trade talks with the White House.
100%! Tariffs! On movies!!!
Well hey, at that rate, how about 100% tariffs on foreign books, too? Retroactive, of course. Make it hurt to buy a copy of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, Lucky Jim, The Needle’s Eye, Alice in Wonderland, The Origin of Species, The Rise Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – just think of all the money to be made!
Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on movies made outside the US could wipe out the UK film industry, ministers have been warned, as they came under immediate pressure to prioritise the issue in trade talks with the White House.
Whatever. Why should anyone but the US be allowed to have a film industry?
In an extraordinary intervention, Trump announced his intention to impose the levy on all movies “produced in foreign lands”, stating that the US film industry was facing a “very fast death” as a result of incentives being offered overseas. The UK is among the countries offering film-makers generous tax incentives.
The US president said he had already ordered the commerce department and the US trade representative to begin instituting such a tariff. He said on his Truth Social platform the issue was a “national security threat” because of the “concerted effort by other nations” to attract productions. “Hollywood is being destroyed,” he later told reporters. “Other nations have stolen our movie industry.”
And Hollywood is relevant to US national security how exactly?
Trump said it is. What more do you need? Like, evidence? What are you, a commie? /s
I thought Trump hated Hollywood with all its loony leftists? Or does he hope to get a heroic bio-pic made for this move against British competitors?
Hmm. I doubt that Trump hates Hollywood, loony leftists or no. He would LOVE to be a movie star. Basically thinks he is one. But that’s Hollywood: foreign movies compete with Hollywood: they are the enemy.
*Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Whoops derp – thank you.
He has at least been in a movie… He makes a cameo appearance in Home Alone 2 in the hotel lobby.
Remember “Where’s My Roy Cohn?”?
Perhaps Trump is asking, “Where’s My Leni Riefenstahl?”.
Does the moron not know that many films made in Australia are made by US companies using US talent and technical staff? We’re just the backdrop and the extras.
More market manipulation, perhaps? Are his friends after cut-price shares in the overseas movie industry? I’ll give it a week – two at tops – before he’s shouting ‘Now is a GOOD time to BUY!’ and an hour later announcing he’s changed his mind on the tariff.
BKiSA, I thought he did a decent job in the Star Wars franchise. Because that was him playing Jabba the Hutt, right?!
No, because Jabba was a talented crime lord, he just happened to have a disgusting fetish. Lord Cheeto *is* a disgusting fetish.
Yeah, but look at him Lose the combover and it is Jabba!