Trump announces 100% tariff on foreign-made movies

[edbermac]

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Monday he will be imposing a 100% tariff “on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States.”

Trump did not specify when or how the tariff could be enacted.

If Trump follows through with his threat, it would mark the first time he’s essentially imposed a tariff on a service rather than a raw good.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/29/economy/trump-movie-tariff

[newdeal2]

1. Another poorly thought out idea

So now we can’t watch media from outside the US?

[Irish_Dem]

2. Fascists hate outside influences.

Might contaminate MAGA minds.

[ananda]

9. Tarkovsky did it with sci-fi in the soviet era.

He still had to exile eventually, though.

What left an impression on me is how
oppressive and toxic the country was,
while at the same time producing great
art and artists, some even beyond great..
what Joseph Campbell would call
sublime.

[Irish_Dem]

10. They cannot expose the peons to ideas about freedom, equality, democracy.

Too dangerous.

[ananda]

11. There is a slight difference, though.

Russia has never known democracy and freedom.

We have. All the Trumpers can do is try to destroy
it... but as we've already seen, that is having
unintended consequences and is bound to fail.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I think the idea of freedom is a universal desire.

An innate human dream. To be free.
To be caged, imprisoned, enslaved is abhorrent to humans.

But yes I agree, once experiencing freedom, it is much harder to
lose it.

[ananda]

13. I think that's because of the way the country is set up.

There are many states and many different kinds
of people.

I already see Trump and co struggling to figure out
how to get control over it.... utter failure so far.

He's even trying to get other countries on side,
and this might be the breaking point for Magats.

[lame54]

16. Or American films made elsewhere

[dalton99a]

3. No more kung fu movies

[Tetrachloride]

4. Epstein

[Emile]

5. Make the stupid stop.

[Tetrachloride]

6. photograph is ok

[Renew Deal]

7. How does he plan to enforce that?

And why does he keep creating tariffs when he continuously loses in court?

[FalloutShelter]

8. Will the Felon ever run out of squirrels?

Asking for a friend.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

14. Can't have a film that takes place in Elizabethan England made here.

Talk about STUPID!! Films made in America for Americans only?

Does he think that film studios and producers will absorb the costs to distribute films with International cinematography and themes?CGI goes only so far.

[obamanut2012]

15. Marvel Studios are moving overseas

[haele]

17. Huh? Is he going to start up a State media production studio?

Well, there goes everything but local Indy films and AI slop.

Go to almost any movie, stay to the end of the credits, and there are all sorts of foreign companies and studio locations that are involved with either the filming itself or post production. Even "Americana" movies, filmed exclusively in the US, have foreign based studio or production companies involved.
Not because Americans won't do the work, but for the same reason China has such a large market share in manufacturing; it's cheaper to offshore the "sweat" work.
Movie and media producers know they won't get the seats in theaters if they have to charge enough to make money back for their investors and pay all the artists and production/crafts folk wages for living and working in the US.

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Well, that's the end of the Hallmark Channel

Almost all of their movies are made in Canada.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. How will this work?

Will movie theaters collect this tariff?

[Deep State Witch]

20. Does He Not Understand How the Modern Film Industry Works?

Look at the credits for any modern movie, especially one that's special-effects heavy. Most of them either film or use special effects houses that are outside of the US. Films today are a global enterprise. Even the actors are a mix of nationalities, not just Americans. Look at a big movie like Dune. A movie from an American studio, by an American author, adapted for the screen by an American and a Frenchman, starring American, British, Swedish, Spanish, filmed by a French director filmed in various parts of Africa.

[edbermac]

21. Looks like Mel Gibson's movie will be targeted lol

Trump Announces 100% Tariff on All Movies Made Outside the United States, Presumably Including Mel Gibson’s New Christ Saga

Mel Gibson, Donald Trump’s Hollywood ambassador, will have trouble with his latest movie.

Trump has announced a 100% tariff on all movies made outside the United States.

Gibson is shooting his two part “Passion of the Christ” sequel, and it’s not in Altoona, trust me.

Shooting is set for Rome, other locations in Italy, Morocco, and Israel.

It’s a two part movie that is costing Gibson, a Hollywood pariah, hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://www.showbiz411.com/2025/09/29/trump-announces-100-tariff-on-all-movies-made-outside-the-united-states-presumably-including-mel-gibsons-new-christ-saga

[ecstatic]

22. I watch a lot of shows filmed in the UK and Australia

Through streaming services? How will this be implemented? I'm so sick of his shit.

[LS0999]

23. Now we have a tyrant who can just impose taxes based on how he feels

Isn't this what led up to the American revolution in the first place?