Donald Trump Says He’s Pursuing 100% Tariffs On Movies Produced Outside U.S., Calling Runaway Production “A National Security Threat”

https://deadline.com/2025/05/trump-movie-tariffs-hollywood-1236384980/

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  1. >Calling runaway production a “national security threat,” Trump’s comments follow reporters that one of his special envoys to Hollywood, Jon Voight, was a devising a plan to save the entertainment industry.

    >Trump wrote on Truth Social, “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

  2. LITERALLY FUCKING WHY. THERE’S ALREADY STATE-BY-STATE INCENTIVES TO MAKE MOVIES IN THE US. IT GENERATES MILLIONS.

    I’m so tired of this orange piece of shit.

  3. MAGA would be outraged if only they could read subtitles.

  4. His administration is literally destroying what was not broken…they run by cruelty

  5. Try to mess with Disney, it didn’t end well for Desantis

  8. How do you place a tariff on a movie? Just curious

  9. Hmmm, I wonder if it has anything to do with Hollywood’s obsession with the tax incentives of filming a lot of shows and movies in Canada more so in recent years, perhaps…?

  10. He’s a Russian asset intent on doing as much damage to the US as possible. You cant tell me any different.

  11. Man this guy really wants to fuck my city we make cars and movies in Canada…

  13. Fuck these Nazis and their Nazi dipshit supporters.

  15. This is so dumb. He’ll want to tariff the air next

  16. Trying to control the film industry is some Goebbels level shit

  17. Apparently everyone and everything he doesn’t like is a national security threat

  18. Alrighty then, guess I’ll support more international cinema and less Marvel and Star Wars. Bye!

  19. How?!?

    It’s not like the movies are *imported* in any traditional sense.

    Is it just going to be a higher ticket price for movies made outside the US? How will that be enforced?

  20. What does this even mean?

    What do you even tariff? Film equipment being exported and imported? Actors and directors for going to other countries?

  22. Good luck dipshit. There are richer more powerful people than you in Hollywood 

  24. Time to see American Sniper ripoffs and cheesy Christian family movies only in theatres 🥰😍🥰😌 so fun 😵‍💫🤮

  25. I guarantee this is going to have the opposite effect. Watch the entire industry just leave the US all together.

  27. Wouldn’t this just effectively kill the movie industry? And most likely theaters as well?

  28. Is this supposed to curtail production being outsourced? Or just to piss off Bollywood?

  29. Just when you thought he couldn’t be stupider or more of a jerk, he surprises you.

  30. What fucking security threat, bro? Ohhhh my goodness. OK, look. I’m just SERIOUSLY gonna need Mr. Trump to stop with all of these nonsensical tariffs and just outright hold himself back from issuing any more UNTIL he has just FINALLY learned how tariffs ACTUALLY work. Like……c’mon now, man. Is he really serious or what? That motherfucker right there really needs to motherfucking chill, got damn it.

  31. LOL there goes every blockbuster ever made.

    Looks like those Europe scenes would need to get shot in butt fuck Alabama.

  32. He’s not happy unless he is destroying people and causing chaos.

  33. I agree The Chipmunks Go To Paris is a clear and present danger

  34. I don’t think the words “national security risk” means what he thinks they mean.

    This is getting absurd

  35. Doesn’t even understand Star Wars. One of the most dissected and well known film IP franchises in existence.

  36. So a french indie film will now cost $14.99 on prime amazon instead of $7.99? What if they’re stored on servers in France, will he tariff my data?

  37. Can’t wait for the next Bond movie where a desert in Nevada with fake pyramids gets subbed in for Egypt.

    Or even better. More CGI.

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