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Trump’s Insane New Tariffs on… Movies?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

JVL, Sonny Bunch, and Andrew Egger break down Donald Trump's recent Truth Social bleat proposing 100% tariffs on all films "produced in Foreign Lands." The announcement has confused the industry by what it means, how it would work, and why Trump thinks creating more obstacles in an industry still recovering from strikes and COVID would help Hollywood. 

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0:00.0

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0:24.4

recently. He's just getting on true social, all hours of the day and night. Hot new ideas

0:28.7

straight from the dome. Here's one he put up yesterday. Well, we were all finishing up Sunday dinner.

0:33.7

The movie industry in America is dying of very fast death. Other countries are offering

0:38.0

all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood and

0:42.8

many other areas within the USA are being devastated. This is a concerted effort by other nations

0:47.7

and therefore a national security threat. It is in addition to everything else messaging and

0:52.7

propaganda. Therefore, I am

0:54.2

authorizing the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to immediately

0:58.1

begin the process of instituting a 100% tariff on any and all movies coming into our country

1:03.7

that are produced in foreign lands. We want movies made in America again. We had to come on and

1:09.5

talk about this. I am joined by basically our two

1:12.4

movie gurus, Sonny Bunch and JVL. Sunny, you wrote for this in Morning Shots today. This is a lot of

1:19.9

words that as far as we can tell, add up to literally no even imaginable policy, right? Can you just

1:25.9

like walk us through the contours of what smarter minds than me imagine it could in theory mean?

1:31.9

Sure. So let's steal man. I'm in a steel man Donald Trump's argument for him,

1:36.6

because I don't think he has any idea what he's actually talking about.

1:38.9

You know, once upon a time, the movies in America were made largely in Los Angeles, in Hollywood, right? They,

1:46.3

good weather and that's where the talent was. And then as the years went along,

1:50.8

production started moving out into the rest of the country, into, you know, locations where

1:55.6

you could, where you had good spaces, you had wide open vistas or you had industrial plants

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