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Donald Trump’s stupidity continues to hit new highs. For his subsequent ridiculous act, Trump is ordering a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies, and in response to reporting, it’s all due to one among his loyal Hollywood supporters.
Out of nowhere, Trump, who greater than possible was sitting on his gaudy Mar-A-Lago sofa, watching TV, as an alternative of doing his job as President of america, posted on his trash social media platform his newest dumb a** concept to hit foreign-made movies with a 100% tariff, as a result of in his phrases it’s a “nationwide risk.”
We wished we had been making this up, however he’s lifeless critical.
“The Film Trade in America is DYING a really quick dying,” Trump wrote on Fact Social. “Different International locations are providing all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from america. Hollywood, and lots of different areas inside the usA., are being devastated. It is a concerted effort by different Nations and, subsequently, a Nationwide Safety risk.”
“It’s, along with all the pieces else, messaging and propaganda! Subsequently, I’m authorizing the Division of Commerce, and america Commerce Consultant, to instantly start the method of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Films coming into our Nation which are produced in International Lands,” Trump continued. “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
Lol, what?
It’s unclear how Trump plans to implement these newest abuse tariffs. Nonetheless, in response to The Guardian, he could possibly be attempting to focus on a system of tax subsidies that enables Hollywood producers to obtain massive sums of cash in the event that they shoot films in studios in accredited nations.
So, the place did he get this concept from?
In response to TNR, he might have gotten the thought from actor Jon Voight, who’s a staunch supporter of Felon 47.
Per TNR:
Months later, it seems that Voight—also referred to as the movie business’s most ardent conservative—spoke with Trump, and Trump listened.
Voight has reportedly spent weeks speaking to the Administrators Guild of America, Teamsters, and IATSE, Deadline reported Friday. The fruit of these conversations, in response to sources with information of them who spoke to the leisure publication, was imagined to be a tax incentive that Hollywood has been clamoring for.
As an alternative, Trump went the way in which of the tariff, which squares into an administration that has aggressively curtailed spending so as to lengthen extraordinarily costly tax breaks for billionaires.
Social media had loads of jokes, together with some including that the following season of The White Lotus might find yourself in Cleveland.
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