Uh, ok, what?
Are we trying to drown out foreign influence now? Like, idk, China? North Korea?
Media is our biggest GDP dollar. Donnie is playing with fire here. I'd bet my life savings he backs down, like he has on everything else.
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Unrelated but the "W" in the Hollywood sign is asymmetrical.
The US being by far the biggest exporter of movies, the only way this makes sense is that Trump is not seeing enough ass-kissing (and ~~bribes~~ campaign donations) from the US movie industry, so he's actively trying to damage them.
Claim foreign movies are a threat, wait for other countries to retaliate against US movies, sit back and watch ~~bribes~~ sales of $TRUMP grow as the major studios seek his political favor.
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On some level this is a good thing. Many American movies are low level oligarch propaganda (e.g. The "Tony Stark" character in Iron Man).
We shouldn't be funding what is essentially a proto-fascist state. While there are many sane Americans, they have yet to prove that they have the risk tolerance to fight back effectively. From my experience living in the US, American culture isn't really suited for that kind of thing.
Is the "we" in this Canada or Mexico or something?
I'm not following. If Trump's incoherent ramblings are to be generously interpreted, he wants all production to move back to the states. Currently many countries, and states, have huge tax incentives and other government handouts to encourage filming on their ground. If they all go back to that states, the American Companies lose that free foreign money, and depending on how it all shakes out, states will still be paying out tax incentives. At least for awhile as the industry finds a new home.
That's all extremely hypothetical to try and understand Trump.
The We refers to the rest of the world.
What Trump is saying is irrelevant. Best to not pay for American media. Subscribe to your local streaming companies that offer content in your local language, watch movies and series from other countries. A dollar to America is a dollar to supporting fascism.
And not all of it works on a tax incentive basis. Here in Ukraine the cost differential alone was enough to attract film productions (pre-full scale russian invasion of course).
If sane Americans get their house in order (not Biden or Harris style bullshit, but real anti-corruption programs that decapitate the US oligarchy), then that's another discussion. But that is a big if.
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China and many countries are huge consumers of American movies and entertainment.
Let them retaliate up the wazoo. We deserve everything we get. It just sucks that us non-magas have to suffer for their idiocy.
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Another "Trump said" that should be ignored.
How would this even work? Tariffs function by holding the physical items in customs, until the tax is paid. But a licensing deal on a digital good, that can be transfered undetected over the internet, is impossible to teriff. You could tax it other ways, but 100% of what. The distribution license? The copyright?
I guarantee he hasn't thought about any of this, and as such this mindless utterance a can be safely ignored.
The more logical choice would be to tax the distribution license sold by non American entities.
The thing that makes this unenforceable is that what he means is that he wants to tax movies not filmed fully in the US even if they are American movies.
Sure I'll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn't really matter to my point.
My point is that this is another example of him saying something so stupid, that it shouldn't get any media coverage.
Sure I'll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn't really matter to my point.
This made me chuckle.
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Good thing the Lord of the Rings has been done for years. I dont actually understand qhat this tariffs is. If a movie has ro be filmed on site in say Italy, but everything else is done in America, is that ok? 🫤 I am lost.
Can we make sure that we define non-US movies as any movie that's got a primary non-US investor? So that, given the amount of money China has poured into Disney, it makes them non-US? And all the Chinese film companies that have been sniffing around and snapping up productions that should be US based?
For someone that said he explicitly doesn't like losers, he sure can embody one.
Movies and TV shows are the US's cultural export. It helps keep us front of mind. They are essentially asking for retaliation where the US is erased from all foreign screens.
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Relax. Hell backtrack on them in 3 weeks.
After destroying the USs reputation (even further), but before collecting any meaningful value/revenue.
And other countries to add American movies to the list of things to retaliate with.
Hell can keep him ;)
Beg to differ, Hell has standards. They wouldn't want the orange dumpster.
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Which will result in retaliation against US movies, thus further undermining the US's unparalleled soft power.
This man is doing literally everything Putin could ever want.
And probably demanded
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