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.

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.

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.

This guy is playing a board game and losing to a toddler.

For someone that said he explicitly doesn't like losers, he sure can embody one.

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.

Relax. Hell backtrack on them in 3 weeks.

How would that even work? At what point do you charge the tariff?

Explain to me how the fuck does this fix the economy?…

I think this is good. It will help local (outside the US) artistic industries space to flourish without being threatened by Hollywood.

Movies all over the world face inmence pressure form competing from Hollywood, buy without that pressure, they could focus on their local strengths instead.

Yeah USians are probably fucked though, but it's kinda bad to feel bad for the facists and their enablers.

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.

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.

I was under the impression that they film a great deal of movies in Canada because it costs far less than filming anywhere else. We also have places that look very modern while maintaining very gothic cities and all of the land in between that could be filmed to look like many places abroad. So he's costing the film industry the savings that they have gotten used to by filming in Canada. Art of the deal.

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: "Is it where the money comes from? The script, the director, the talent, where it was shot?"

These are the important questions to asking. I imagine there won't be strict definitions of "US made" films instead it will be a "vibes" based criteria used to punish people who go against the Trump Administration's policies.

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?

Unrelated but the "W" in the Hollywood sign is asymmetrical.

Apart from the point that this would be illegal (he won't know or care, but it is), imagine other countries responding in kind? At least our country imports more media from the US than we produce on our own. And the return tarrifs costs and losses caused by that would also hit primarily US companies like Netflix, Disney, Amazon, AplleTV...

There would be retaliation and Hollywood exports far more than the US imports with entertainment. This would cause much more damage for the US film industry.

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.