President Donald Trump extended his trade war to the cinema. Trump, in an evening post on his social media platform Truth Social, said he has instructed the Commerce Department and US Trade Representative to place a 100% tariff on films that are produced outside the US and imported into America.
Just wait until foreign countries retaliate with tariffs on the financial services we export. We’re already tanking…that would push us over the cliff.
tariff this .. tariff that ... pretty soon he's going to tariff domestic items!! we aren't going to afford to live anymore!!! fu k you Trump!!!
He is mad. Completely mad. youtu.be/wQgJBMcywdA
So American are going to pay this tariff how? Double the price of movie tickets, all streaming services… how. Also you voted for a moron literally to run your country.
이제 대한민국 스크린쿼터 복구해도 되는건가...?
Next Trump will put tariffs on rain and sunshine or maybe items shipped from state to state. Trump is grasping at straws to makeup the 2 trillion for his billionaire tax cut. The problem is the waste and fraud was never there in the quantities suggested, so now they have to tax us to death.
Stupid
Over 70% of Hollywood’s turnover is from overseas earnings. Such a tariff if reciprocated means Hollywood would be decimated. Tens of thousands of jobs lost.
He picked foreign films because he can’t understand them
No! I want to SEE the actual locations when I watch films and shows. I bet Tom Cruise has an opinion on this! Think of Argo, Casablanca, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Lost in Translation, Apocalypse Now, An American in Paris, Outlander, Killing Eve, Moon Knight, Ted Lasso only being filmed in the US!
If other countries imposed reciprocal tariffs, it could devastate Hollywood studios, since most big-budget event films earn the majority of their revenue overseas. www.wsj.com/business/med...
This pretty much tells us who he had dinner with last night.
US is a net exporter of services. Guess who has all the cards in that equation? Fking brilliant
This man is completely out of his mind.
What mind?
apnews.com/article/trum... To avoid CNN
Soon he will be showing propaganda films like the Nazis did
He is making tariff against Orbán like he would be his biggest enemy. Hungarian government must be furious. First cars now this.
Did he confuse cinema with Crimea? I mean they kinda close. Lol
Trump is not well. He is mentally ill and intellectually deficient. He is a threat to the entire world. 25th Amendment. Impeachment. Use whatever Constitutional device for removal that best fits the security needs of our nation now.
I understand your point. But I'm not convinced President Vance wouldn't be a greater threat.
Probs true. Trump 2 no worse than Trump 1, only back then his team restrained him. This time.. not
T2 is worse than T1: T1 was learning what the bounds of possibilities were &, as you say, had a team restraining him. He learned, for T2, to pick team that wouldn't challenge him, but rather would support him. Add to that his desire for personal revenge, inc J6 & legal, & obvious mental decline ...
Each President fills their cabinet with loyal people so the only time the 25th is ever going to be used is when a President is incapacitated like in a coma or something. That's what Impeachment is for but we have never removed a president from office.
Stroke while the iron is hot (strike him with a hot iron?) and write solid letter about removal using the 25th amendment. Post a version for everyone to use and let’s flood Congress both the House and Senate, with requests. It’s better than just fetching on the Internet. 😊
Was, and has always been.
I give him another 18 months before he's 6ft under. Look at him, he is crumbling and rotting before our eyes
Its for the best really. If he had a genuine appreciation for accurate information he would be vastly more dangerous for the world. He's basically an illiterate version of Hitler with no Himmler to help him.
Except for MILLER.
The only way miller fits that is that he is capable of cruelty & creepyness. No literary or technical understanding of really anything. Straight of of college into being a press secretary. Nothing else other than school bus asshxle
Where is our Congress? Seriously, this is all insane.
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Priorities 🤪
How’s he plan to put a tariff on non trade material 🤣🤣 A tariff on Netflix? Given the fact that soooo many movies are made on location (abroad), it would mean Americans would have to pay more to watch them. It wouldn’t affect anyone else in the world 😂
So, if you want to make a film about the Amazon, you film it in the desert south west?
Movies are already struggling.....
He saw what Kim Jung-Un was doing and thought it was a great idea
Omg something filmed in Canada might corrupt young minds. I feel like that older woman in Toronto right now " sorry but he is an asshole".
I wonder if there is a direct effect on people who have too much money, and the loss of logic, common sense, and sanity?
* The religious right is responsibly at fault for president grifter’s deconstruction of social safety nets & rule of law because of their obsession with abortion & LGBTQ to reassure themselves of a dead letter literal interpretation of the Bible Christian Nation. *
So how is the tariff going to apply to digital platforms making their own movies? And what about VPNs or movies that are made in more than one country including the US lmaoo. Goddamn he's so insane lmao
Since when are movies a national security threat? He's said this for just about everything. The national security threat at this time seems to be him and his corrupt administration.
The fuck does that even mean?
damn this sucks
What about music? I guess he hadn't thought of that yet.
So a recession in movie industry this time as US doesn't have all appropriate movie sets and scenes needed for some titles like Pirates Of Caribbean, Star Wars or Casablanca???? 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣🤣
An attempt to silence outside media?
even though Congress passed a law that says a president can not do this does not seem to matter to this administration www.marketwatch.com/story/can-pr...
“We hire all these foreign actors…but our poor Kevin Sorbo and Chachi can’t even get an audition!”
I don't think this is part of the trade war. I think it's a shot in the war to control the narrative. If he gets away with this, it won't be long before the administration insists on seeing scripts before a movie gets made.
Come on Congress, you have to stop the madness of this idiot.
He's insane. Can't wait for him to put a 100% tariff on tithing.
Does importing a movie mean showing or watching a movie that was filmed “in a foreign land”? What’s the emergency that this tariff is addressing?
Where do you begin? Lord of The Rings filmed mostly in New Zealand. Star Wars saga, location filming all over the planet, Bond Movies...
He's a security risk.
Funny thing is he's playing a game ,will he's robing the bank pay close attention to his felonies and bullshit.
Will the EU and Asia counter with a similar tariff on Netflix and other streaming services?
Weird. From the number of movies that have that Georgia tax incentive logo in the credits you'd think that almost every movie was made in the US.
A great deal of films are shot in Vancouver. Cheaper then LA and just as Coastal
Oh I know. Hell, I live in a Toronto, the stand in city for NY, Chicago, Boston, or basically any US city they want 😂 But you can't tax people filming, so I can't see how they could expect to manage this? There's no moving product. I imagine most stuff is immediately backed up online anyway.
But doesn't streaming services buy the rights to certain movies so they can air them? Maybe rights isn't the correct word. But I'm guessing they pay something to someone.
They must do, but most of the streaming services are owned by the production company. And even if they're not, they're all American companies anyway, so unless they're going to try and tack a fee onto "the concept of creation" for stuff filmed overseas it's all utter nonsense.
You guys need to stop focusing on this dumb shit. They are doing it so that you aren’t focused on ten bigger stories out there. This man is a puppet for a group of people that are working to destroy any chance anyone has that isn’t part of that group. Stay focused.
This 100%. And stop screen grabbing and resharing his posts.
Can’t fix stupid.
Big impact on Netflix and Amazon prime
I hear that Al Qaida, ISIS and enemies of America have a new plan for the destruction of the MUSK/trump USA. Sit back, have a cup of tea, do nothing and watch.
Studios will just stop showing movies in USA Hope you weren’t planning on watching the new #MissionImpossible Made in #UK and #Europe
Sad little old man behaving like a toddler who’s not getting his way. So pitiful
Wtf?
I am still waiting for a tariff on ice hockey goals. With canadian teams needing to do 100% more goals to win a game when they travel in the US
The parasite is eating himself
Knowing Trump's Story, it's difficult to understand why US voted to him as POTUS.
Trolling so you dont talk about him sending military to US cities www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
This is the attempt to tariff individual purchases. Collection will become the framework for a national sales tax.
God this guy is such a hapless idiot.
Dude is gonna destroy the U.S. economy. The empire is falling. The 🌏 can move on...
"... they're not willing to make movies inside the United States. "That's a threat to our country." 😟🥴
So a French production of a French language film should be filmed in Omaha, Nebraska? 🤣🤪
Maybe Papillion?
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
He hates Hollywood, and this will be a major blow when foreign countries reciprocate. Never mind that the film industry is an enormous source of overseas income. Vengeance must be served, even at the cost of the shambles he calls a trade policy.
STOP TREATING HIS POSTS LIKE LEGITIMATE POLICY. Point, laugh and call them stupid.
But at least half of them are in effect. And many people have been negatively affected by them.
So are my $5,000 hearing aids going to be $7500 now?
What exactly are the customs agents applying the tariff on? The 'movies' that pass through the ports? This further shows how Trump has no idea how tariffs work.
This is the next thing😱‼️ Please report on it www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
So he is running out of things to tariff. His plan is going downhill.
Does he think they are still only prints on reels and shipped over like it’s 1977? He does, right?
He absolutely must. The process involved of which movies get tariffs or collecting the tariffs make no sense otherwise
So, who paid?
High time to purge some #American #films from my collection then...
For those of you that don't study history, Mussolini did this
Blackmail
The movie, 'The Apprentice" about Donald Trump's life not only super pissed him off and it was very difficult to find a company even willing to distribute it in the US and that movie was fillmed....in CANADA. 😁 That's probably why he hates Canada.
Ignorant Trump doesn’t think of these things himself. He needs to expire.
Books are next. Fascism and tyranny are here, in the craziest forms imaginable, and if you haven’t yet protested in the street, you might consider why not. What are you waiting for?
It sounds like Trump is getting bored.
Workers: It’s time to fight back. Soaring #prices, falling #wages, and deeper billionaire rule. But the crisis goes beyond any one politician. We need a new system—built by #workers, led by workers, international in scope, democratic in structure, and rooted in power at the point of production.
Yeah, this won't work and will be dropped shortly.
Wow. What a hero. 🤦♀️
😳😳😳🤬🤬🤬🤬
we are waiting when cartoons will illegal here, like in russia dictatorship “Russian Court Bans ‘Akira,’ Other Popular Anime” www.vice.com/en/article/r...
Trump's insane claim of 'national security threat' is just so he has power to tariff very very very obvious abuse of power he fabricated Alien Enemies Act qualifications, & doing it for tariffs w/ these absurd claims (why he pretends fentanyl a major problem w/ Canada) #impeach this unfit idiot
Speaking of cinema, after this absurd executive order one can't ignore the parallels to Doctor Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Satire has become reality, reality is that Trump is insane. Criminally insane.
We'll take Bluey back, thank you.
Oh, no, what shall my and my sister's tiny granddaughters do? Even though my granddaughter's new bubble Bluey terrifies her.
Guess they will have to play with their 2 dolls.
They have dolls but Bluey and Bingo are their heros.
So what does the internet and streaming do exactly? Does he think movies are on VHS or Blu Ray? Is he brining back the golden age of MGM? I have so many questions. My biggest and most pressing question is-Where are the psychiatrists and neurologists? And exorcists? Someone has to step in.
Thats what I said lol. How does this work with movies made for digital platforms and what if you use a VPN lol.
Movies are still being made on Bluray (4k specifically) that said this tariff nonsense has gotten out of hand.
Well Vance did kill the pope for the poop…
It's probably to keep the porn films his wife was in from being sent here. 😊
What an idiot.
I can’t believe this isn’t an Onion post
How making Hallmark movies in Ontario amounts to a "national security emergency" seems a bit of a stretch.
How do impose tariffs on movies? Especially these days when movies really aren’t tangible things anymore but are transmitted digitally for the most part. And even if it is film being imported, what is the value being taxed? Seems to me the physical film isn’t worth that much.
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He definitely paid attention for the first part of Econ class, but didn’t bother to focus on the second half of the lecture where everyone’s prices go up. youtu.be/guC5U9cqCu0?...
Demented turd's goal is to shrink down the US to the smallest denominator as possible. Take away education, science, arts. That's it, in a nutshell. Keep us stupid, unaware and uninformed. Kinda like N. Korea. Next, our food filled with worms cuz Rfkjr thinks fertilizer causes autism.
Fertilizer causes autism? 🤫 Not so loud, or he'll believe it!
Cinema’s are struggling now, mainly do to streaming and pricing. This will the lock closer to their doors.
Trumps needs to be removed from power immediately. There has been no leader in world history that has acted so immature as Trump. A 5 year old has more knowledge than Trump.
….the WH bozo has a reason for this… has someone or some country has made him look bad in a movie and this is his retribution?…
Or maybe it's supposed to stop the porn films his wife made from coming here. 😂
….excellent point….🤣
The Iron Dome
Why not? They're no different!
They can shoot the liberation of Paris at the Las Vegas casino
Trump needs to be dragged out of the WH in handcuffs and shackles
Tariff = trump tax
Those are called foreign films for that very reason
You know that’s not really a thing, right, @cnn.com?
His next target for tariffs could be the clouds drifting into US airspace
So what if the rest of the world stop showing America films and TV shows, how long would it be before Hollywood would close down, and billions or even trillions lost to the American economy and how many jobs would be lost in the process, now I know Trump is absolutely nuts,
Yeah. The Donvict hasn't figured that part out yet. He's a moron.
He has. His mission is to destrpy the USA, economically , politically and culturally. All to help his puppetmaster Putin. And the Republicans just help him do it..
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
He clearly has NO clue how the film industry works.
Not one bit lol.
Maybe he should go see Sinners. 100% American film.
Fucking piece of shit idiot.
Demented fool.
Apparently he doesn’t realize some people watch films via the internet; fancy that
Which will only hurt the United States as film is a significant American export
Was Escape From Alcatraz on cable last night?
What a total fuck,…can’t he just explode right now? Oh,…, now we know where Baron’s fucked up genes came from.
Ready for him to back out in 3 days to manipulate the stock some more
What emergency is this trying to curb?
America’s power and prestige - it must be destroyed. Literally everything he does harms America.
He's a Russian asset. His mission is to destroy the U.S.
“The simplest explanation is usually the best one.” It is the only explanation that really makes sense.
I’m also convinced that’s the case. People say he’s stupid - sure, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. So how is it that everything this man does is so harmful to America?
Trump rejects all competition: one of the main foundations of the development of civilizations. The United States will be the loser. In fact, he proves that he is impotent.
This is one way to keep cinema domestically sourced! Wonder how Hollywood will react—maybe we’ll see a surge in ‘Made in America’ blockbusters. But can we expect a Tariff Awards Ceremony next?
What's that thing you carry babies in?🇨🇦
So… how do you tariff a movie?
This week, he's shaking down the studio heads. They'll come groveling with their million-dollar payments and a reminder of how they eliminated Biden from the race.
How? How does this work? Seizing half of all ticket sales? Invading Pinewood?
Exactly lol. And what about VPNs? How is the tariff going to work on Netflix and other digital platforms. So if you switch on your VPN does the made in America tariff button go away lol. He's so insane.
Trump will go after the internets too. America is being isolated. Expect a filtered internet soon.
When will a doctor step in and admit this mentally unstable individual. He thinks it's New World Order of himself Maybe the 34 time convicted felon can be first prisoner of his Alcatraz re opening
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