New Republic: Here's Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies

[Eugene]

Source: The New Republic

Here’s Where Trump Got His Idiotic Idea to Tariff Foreign Movies

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Mon, May 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM EDT·2 min read

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Days before Trump took office in January, he announced online that he’d be tapping Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, and Jon Voight to be his special envoys to Hollywood, mentioning that he would “get done what they suggest” in order to spark another “Golden Age of Hollywood.”

Months later, it appears that Voight—also known as the film industry’s most ardent conservative—spoke with Trump, and Trump listened.

Voight has reportedly spent weeks talking to the Directors Guild of America, Teamsters, and IATSE, Deadline reported Friday. The fruit of those conversations, according to sources with knowledge of them who spoke to the entertainment publication, was supposed to be a tax incentive that Hollywood has been clamoring for.

Instead, Trump went the way of the tariff, which squares into an administration that has aggressively curtailed spending in order to extend extremely expensive tax breaks for billionaires.

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[Walleye]

1. Looks like Trump has very little respect for our magnificent movie industry.

We have all the talent, the studios, etc. I wouldn’t think we’d need protectionism. People around the world speak English because of Hollywood. It has possibly been one of our most influential industries worldwide. Of course Trump has to kill it.

[pansypoo53219]

2. what a brayn truss.