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Trump’s Kneejerk Hollywood Fix Is No Tariff-ic Idea: Bill Mechanic Examines The Pitfalls & Tells How The Town Really Feels – Guest Column
Trump's Kneejerk Hollywood Fix Is No Tarrif-ic Idea: Bill Mechanic Tells How The Town Really Feels
Mechanic takes it a step further, questioning Trump’s motives behind a power play that puts Hollywood on its heels, a feeling familiar to many other industries and segments of the economy struggling in this tariff moment. Maybe he’s doing that, but there isn’t a kernel of the truth in the concept that shooting overseas can lead to embedding code or revealing war plans (for those, all you have to do is log into his Cabinet’s chat groups). Like so many other harebrained ideas coming out of Washington these days, this one seems spewed out rather than thought through, and presents a solution that doesn’t solve anything but aims to create headlines and noise as opposed to making things better.
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