Donald Trump on Monday reiterated his plans to levy tariffs as high as 100% on movies filmed outside of the United States, whether they are produced by foreign-owned film companies or Americans.
The president wrote on Truth Social that the fault of America’s supposedly “stolen” movie business lay with California’s Democratic governor, whom he frequently targets for scorn.
He added that the would be imposing a 100% tariff to stop what he called a “never ending problem”, though it was not stated when those tariffs would be put into place.
This “never ending problem” is that he knows he can’t control the contents of the movies from abroad, like he will be able with domestic movies. This is a way to make them inaccessible to Americans.
China is doing something similar with their censoring of American movies for their domestic market, they have a little bit of a different approach but the goal is the same.
Its honestly scary to see what is being unfolded.