Monday, May 05, 2025

Trump: Non-US Movies to Be Hit with 100% Tariffs

US President Donald Trump says he plans to hit movies made in foreign countries with 100% tariffs, as he ramps up trade disputes with countries around the world.

Posted by REDIAL at 10:31 PM | 19 COMMENTS | permalink

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President Trump's proposal to impose tariffs on foreign movies has been met with a mix of confusion and fear by the entertainment industry.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) May 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM

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The list of things that are not a "National Security threat" is getting pretty short.

#1 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-04 08:56 PM

Can't wait for the next James Bond film where he globetrots to everywhere from beautiful Ohio to exotic Delaware

#2 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-05 08:17 AM

Trump said on his Truth Social platform: "It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!"

If you believe you're a total loser, everything is a threat.

#3 | Posted by YAV at 2025-05-05 08:22 AM

Did Pres Trump give any specifics on how the tariffs would be levied, or a timetable?


#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-05 02:22 PM

Loonie as ----

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-05 05:03 PM

Trump Ambassador Jon Voight Unveils His Plan to "Make Hollywood Great Again"
www.hollywoodreporter.com

... The Midnight Cowboy' and Heat' actor " also a "special ambassador" to the entertainment industry for the White House -- presented a plan to return more production to U.S. shores after meeting with industry stakeholders. ...

So, Pres Trump's apparent latest BFF has a plan?

Yet Pres Trump has not been able to describe his plan to substantiate the tariffs?


An actor seems to have bested Pres Trump in planning?

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-05 11:48 PM

Killing businesses and industries across America as best we can!

- The White House

#7 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-06 01:05 AM

@#1 ... The list of things that are not a "National Security threat" is getting pretty short. ...

Yup.

Pres Trump seems to be using the "National Security threat" aspect a lot.

But then there is TikTok.

A Chinese company he has said he has a warm spot for. But why?

President Trump vows to extend Tik Tok' ban deadline until a deal is struck
www.foxbusiness.com

... 'Perhaps I shouldn't say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,"'Trump said Sunday ...

So, TikTok, which was said to be a National Security issue for the US by a law passed by Congress and signed by fmr Pres Biden, so, a law in effect now ...

And Pres Trump seems to be ignoring that law because he has a "little warm spot" in his heart?


OK, let me ask this, if I want to ro a bank because I have "a little warm spot" in my heart about robbing that bank.

Does that make my crime of robbing that bank any less illegal?


So, taking a step back and looking at this ...

Pres Trump really does not seem to care one iota about "National Security threat."

He just seems to want to do what he wants to do.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-06 01:52 AM

WASHINGTON: Offering an explanation for his sweeping tariffs on foreign films, on Tuesday Donald J. Trump argued that movies with subtitles "encourage reading."

"Parents think their kids are safely at the movies, not spending two hours reading," he said. "This should never be allowed to happen in our country."

Calling the practice of reading "disgusting, quite frankly," Trump said that the tariffs would cut off reading "at the source."

In his most dire warning, he claimed that reading subtitles could lead Americans to read books, and eventually the Constitution.

(The Borowitz Report)

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-05-06 08:05 AM

Mel Gibson remaking Passion in Italy. No problem.

Wallace and Gromit are national security threats but Putin and Kim are not?
Can any of the magats here explain this?

#10 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-05-06 10:37 AM

The next season of White Lotus will be filmed at the Motel 6 off of exit 8.

#11 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-05-06 10:39 AM

Not a mentally ill psycho AT ALL!

#12 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-05-06 11:44 AM

And suddenly, many sub-categories on Porn sites went dark, rather than pay the tariffs...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-05-06 04:23 PM

But will the cost of the tariffs be made available to the consumers who want to watch these movies from other countries? Is Trump going to put a tariff on "Heartland"? which is filmed in Alberta, Canada?

#14 | Posted by danni at 2025-05-07 07:59 AM

Old Yeller and Voight, yeah, that's the Hollywood rejuvenation ticket!
If you think it's 1955.
Imbeciles.

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-05-07 09:03 AM

Um, yeah ...

" Did you like Raiders of the Lost Ark? Steven Spielberg had to film the desert sequences of that film in Tunisia, because no place in America looked remotely plausible as a stand-in for Egypt. Did you enjoy a little film known as Star Wars? George Lucas also had to film the desert sequences of that movie in Tunisia, because Tatooine was too hard to get to on a mere $11 million budget"

#16 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-07 11:51 AM

Here's the link if anyone wants to read the entire piece ripping this idea

www.nationalreview.com

#17 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-07 11:52 AM

We can tell 100% tariffs on foreign films is dumb just from the headline, blind man Jeff.

We don't need a right-wing fluff piece to figure that out.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-07 11:55 AM

#18. I thought a few here might appreciate hearing the criticism from a right leaning writer.

Apparently not you. You are always combative purely for the sake of being combative in hopes someone will fire back at your lonely ass.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-07 02:42 PM

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