This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Donald Trump has announced that a 100% tariff will be put in place on all films made outside of the United States of America. “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he posted on social network TruthSocial. “Other Countries are offering all sorts of incentives to draw our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood, and many other areas within the U.S.A., are being devastated.”
Trump continued by saying that those filmmaking incentives, which would include the New Zealand Screen Production Grant, are “a national security threat” that also amount to “messaging and propaganda”. He then authorised the beginning of a process instituting a 100% tariff on “any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands” concluding with this: “WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
