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Trump Wants to Tariff the Heck Out of Fast X: Part 2
Any movie produced outside America is a threat to national security, the president argued.
“The Movie Industry in America is DYING,” Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account on Sunday, May 4, citing not the influx of superhero movies, dearth of romantic comedies, or whatever the hell Death of a Unicorn was (to say nothing of the waning tradition of the theatrical experience) but the fact that “other countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw filmmakers and studios away from the United States.” He’s not exactly wrong: A number of studio films are made abroad in Great Britain, Bulgaria, Australia, and New Zealand, to name a few countries that offer tax incentives. Possibly double the cost to bring the movie to theaters here, which means if you thought popcorn was expensive now, just wait until you see the prices of next year’s Imax releases. Well, the same weekend Trump announced that the movie industry is dying, his administration also rescinded a number of National Endowment for the Arts grants given to nonprofit cinemas.
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