Letting loose with a barrage of social media postings this morning on subjects ranging from furniture production in North Carolina to the NFL and more, Donald Trump is back on attacking Gavin Newsom and promising big tariffs on overseas movies — really big tariffs.
“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing “candy from a baby.” California, with its weak and incompetent Governor, has been particularly hard hit,” Trump said Monday on his Truth Sociall platform. “Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
if you are experiencing déjà vu reading those lines, yes that is almost exactly what the former Apprentice host said back in May.
Calling runaway production a “national security threat,” Trump’s threats of a “!00% tariff” earlier this year came after reports that one of his “special ambassadors” to Hollywood, Jon Voight, was a devising a plan to save the entertainment industry. A plan that, as of today, has yet to bear fruition.
The Motion Picture Association today had no comment on Trump’s latest post.
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