Trump resigns from Screen Actors Guild in rant-filled letter after they threatened to expel him
Source: The Independent
The former president said "who cares" to the group's threat, and followed SAG-AFTRA's board voting "overwhelmingly" that Mr Trump violated the union's guidelines by inciting the Capitol insurrection.
Fox News received Mr Trump's letter, which was addressed to the president of SAG-AFTRA.
"I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!" Mr Trump wrote in the letter. "While Im not familiar with your work, Im very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Lives, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprenticeto name just a few!"
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-screen-actors-guild-expel-b1797785.html
Aviation Pro
(12,052 posts).....
Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)Harker
(13,870 posts)trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)MY GOSH, HE'S THE UGLIEST MAN ALIVE.
LeftInTX
(24,541 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Not sure if there are exemptions they can make to the rule, but when I worked briefly in the film industry, you HAD to join the union to even be hired as a prop painter.
Roy Rolling
(6,853 posts)Nobody will work with Trump on any SAG-AFTRA projects. Except James Woods and Chaichi. Good luck with that.
DinahMoeHum
(21,737 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)malaise
(267,798 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)MontanaMama
(23,238 posts)he probably can't afford the dues any more.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,694 posts)not fooled
(5,791 posts)I quit!"
says the psycho baby.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)He's cutting expenses.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)elevator in "Home Alone 2" as "work" is a strong indicator that he doesn't know what "work" is.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)Same way he worked in the presidency, he had to be there.
wnylib
(21,146 posts)His "work" as president was to make money for himself through grifting. Not much work at all for him since he is so practiced at it.
PatSeg
(46,781 posts)as if he was responsible for the movie's success. What a pathetic little man.
SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)It's not like he was hired for his acting talent. He forced himself on them.
FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)That flick woulda been a MAJOR flop if his majesty weren't in it.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)as to what an actor actually does.
dbonds
(4,793 posts)He is always brand building, even when he is 'acting'.
NJCher
(35,422 posts)was to gain attention. Michael Goldhaber is the scholar who came up with the concept of the "attention economy," which basically says that in an age of limitless media, the new game is to command attention. That is why you see all those nutcases risking their lives to get a picture of themselves grandstanding on a cliff somewhere.
Here's how trump's brazen, obnoxious insensitivity actually served him well:
Its impossible to understand the rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA wing of the far right or, really, modern American politics without understanding attention hijacking and how it is used to wield power.
snip
Mr. Goldhaber warned of the attention economys destabilizing effects, including how it has disproportionate benefits for the most shameless among us. Our abilities to pay attention are limited. Not so our abilities to receive it, he wrote in the journal First Monday.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/opinion/michael-goldhaber-internet.html
procon
(15,805 posts)Make him an A list star. How pathetic and weak can he get?
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)He didn't reckon that she would get the last laugh when she won the Oscar for "Iron Lady" that year. She was on to him before he ran for prez.
OldBaldy1701E
(4,967 posts)I was never able to afford to lobby to get in either SAG or EQUITY. I was never able to meet the criteria to get in to either group because it was a 'pay to play' situation. I was a failure as an actor anyway, just as I was in any performing attempt. But to have to watch as someone like that orange child just waltzed into being handed a membership while real actors struggled, tried, and failed to garner a glance from those same groups... well, this was just one of the many episodes that made me the cynical grump I am today. That some idiot could get into the organization that I needed to assure me of proper income protection, as well as getting me to the next level when it came to offers and what should come with those offers, was just part of that last straw that showed me just how unfair, how biased, how idiotic and how crappy Hollywood is, and by extension how crappy society in general is. Sigh.
SharonClark
(10,005 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Nothing more.
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)Sad!
wnylib
(21,146 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,023 posts)SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)FrodosNewPet
(495 posts)SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Marcuse
(7,391 posts)🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
LudwigPastorius
(8,943 posts)It shows disrespect to the current officeholder.
...except, of course, that insecure, little, whiny, titty-baby Trump.
LaMouffette
(2,010 posts)LakeArenal
(28,713 posts)King_Klonopin
(1,305 posts)He is the walking, talking poster boy for "egregious".
He was never going to be asked to set foot in front of another camera.
A steaming dog turd has a better chance of being on TV.
Nitram
(22,663 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)Nitram
(22,663 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,874 posts)Is that a new cable network for the Democratic National Committee? 👍
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)you have always been a scab.............FU............
MineralMan
(146,190 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)For four long miserable embarrassing and internationally humiliating years.
bucolic_frolic
(42,661 posts)rurallib
(62,343 posts)Aristus
(66,075 posts)"VERY UNFAIR!"
in the text of the letter.
PatrickforO
(14,514 posts)old movies to a LEAD ROLE in a federal prison cell.
Lock him up.
(6,873 posts)3catwoman3
(23,812 posts)...bit parts, and only because he forced his way in?
He has such a high opinion of himself, with absolutely nothing to support it.
Total attention seeker.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,593 posts)Quite obviously, Mr. Trump, YOU DO. Otherwise you never would have penned the next 3 paragraphs.
benld74
(9,888 posts)Ive never seen
Saturday Night Lives
Anyone seen it??
Traildogbob
(8,567 posts)Well, we really dont care, do you? I think they make a billboard coat with that on it.
Javaman
(62,439 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,485 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,485 posts)oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)Marthe48
(16,690 posts)Hope he is dragged before the Senate and blabs till he foams at the mouth.
CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)I remember those "Zoolander and Wall Street" movies.
Nobody thought a movie that combined the zaniness of Zoolander with the financial intrigue of Wall Street would be a hit, but it was surprisingly good.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Your alleged contributions to motion picture and television arts were minimal at best and no longer needed.
whopis01
(3,467 posts)Trump cares. Otherwise he would have just ignored this.
niyad
(112,429 posts)proof.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)not the utter FAILURE of Trump INC to contain the fucking virus
FUCK him
torius
(1,652 posts)Who taught him English? Melania?
C Moon
(12,188 posts)SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,715 posts)How could they DO this, to one of "The Greats of Acting?"
Initech
(99,909 posts)I like this meme I found:
colorado_ufo
(5,715 posts)Maybe he should keep his union status; he may need it for his performance during the impeachment trial, when he has to testify under oath.
TNNurse
(6,911 posts)Sure, Trump thought that on his own.
Who is helping him write sentences???
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)You wanna be a dick? Hollywood could give a rats ass, theyre relieved. Your sorry ass letter absolved them of any fucks they had left to give!
Good riddance!
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)John and Bo Derek's very-softcore-porn adventure Ghosts Can't Do It earned him a Razzie for Worst Supporting Actor.
https://news.avclub.com/read-this-never-forget-donald-trump-s-razzie-winning-r-1798247025
Favorite (sarcastic) comment from the AVClub article (censored by me): "Sure, you'll make fun of him for this, but you libt@$ds always want to conveniently forget about Shrillary's cameo in Emmanuelle Goes to Dinosaur Land."
EDIT: Hey, maybe he can inspire others to quit! Jon Voight, Kevin Sorbo, James Woods, etc...after all, it wasn't that long ago that Convicted Felon Dinesh D'sousa tweeted that conservative he-men like himself (snerk) were "abandoning liberal Hollywood" to create their own Galt's Gulch version.
SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)way to gen up some support from everybody, try to get a favorable impression from all of you. Instead, you painted a picture of you ranting and raving, spitting all over everything. Are we a little touchy?
madaboutharry
(40,149 posts)I really do think he has dementia.
PirateRo
(933 posts)He was outclasses, outgunned, shown up on every point and on every category and even with a sea of sycophants surrounding him. Youd think hed have realized the sad clown he played and just left.
jeffreyi
(1,934 posts)"Hollywood" and all...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215054189
Initech
(99,909 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)Now, they can cast Donnie in their productions without having to pay union scale. Do you think he'll be willing to perform for the usual terms of free on-set food and a copy of the resulting movie?
Oldem
(833 posts)ban him from ever appearing on TV, again.
japple
(9,773 posts)was a quitter and a loser.
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