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Donald Trump has said he will hit a 100 percent fee in all films produced abroad, expanding his trading struggle in the cinema industry in order to ruin what he described as Hollywood’s “very quick death”.
The US president announced his social platform Sunday at night as he returned to Washington a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, though he did not provide further details.
“The film industry in America is dying very fast death. Other countries are offering all kinds of incentives to attract our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the US are being destroyed,” he wrote.
Los Angeles has watched other US states, as well as countries such as Canada and the United Kingdom, stripping the production of film from California in recent years.
Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Governor of California, has proposed a tax stimulating scheme to support film production in the state, but Trump is watching tariffs instead of stimulating international competition.
Trump added that he would authorize the Department of Trade and the US Trade Representative to “immediately begin the process of creating a 100% tariff in any and all the films coming to our country produced in foreign lands”.
He concluded: “We want movies made in America, again!”
While Trump has banned the comprehensive tariffs he had proposed last month in a wide range of imports by July – giving his officials try to negotiate trade agreements with the world – he has kept taxes affecting specific industries such as cars and pharmaceuticals. It was unclear how taxes would be implemented on films.
The Motion Photo Association refused to comment.
Trump’s plan to apply fees for foreign films came in the midst of a explosion of social media posts in which the US president also called for the reopening of the infamous Alcatraz prison, which has been closed for more than 60 years.
The US president said Alcatraz, who is on an island on the coast of San Francisco, had to “expand and rebuild significantly” to shelter “America’s most ruthless and violent offenders”.
“The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law, order and justice,” Trump wrote about social truth.
The statement withdrew a quick reprimand from Nancy Pelosi, the former chairman of the room and the democratic representative from California.
In a post on X, Pelosi said the president’s proposal was not “a serious”.
“Alcatraz was closed as a federal stop more than sixty years ago. It is now a well -known national park and a great tourist attraction,” she added.
