President Donald Trump’s vowing to slap a whopping 100% tariff on every single movie filmed outside our borders, zeroing in on nations that dangle tax deals to lure away American jobs.
Trump laid out his plan on Truth Social: “Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing ‘candy from a baby,’” he fired off.
Trump didn’t hold back, blasting the state’s governor. “California, with its weak and incompetent Governor [Democrat Gavin Newsom], has been particularly hard hit! Therefore, in order to solve this long time, never ending problem, I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside of the United States,” he declared.
This pledge isn’t some off-the-cuff rant; it’s building on a warning Trump issued back in spring, when he first put the world on notice about protecting the United States’s creative powerhouse.
It’s not just straight-up shoots getting shipped out—Hollywood’s cozying up with foreign partners in Asia and Europe for co-productions that hand over financing, local audiences, and distribution pipelines.
If Trump pulls the trigger, it’ll be a game-changer: the very first tariffs aimed at a service industry, not just widgets and gadgets crossing U.S. ports. But the legal fine print with this situation is fuzzy at the moment.
Wall Street’s already feeling the heat. Shares in Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix tanked hard Monday morning, as investors woke up to the reality of an America First reckoning.
One industry watcher, Paolo Pescatore, laid it out cold to Reuters: “For now, as things stand, costs are likely to increase, and this will inevitably be passed on to consumers.”
In late spring, Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien and Motion Picture Division chief Lindsay Dougherty gave Trump a standing ovation for floating these tariffs. They hailed it as the knockout punch against offshoring.
This film’s tariff salvo is just the opening act in Trump’s tariff blitz. He’s got his sights locked on another American icon getting crushed: furniture. North Carolina has watched its factories shutter as furniture floods in from China and beyond.
Trump’s firing back with “substantial” tariffs on all imported furniture unless it’s made right here on U.S. soil. He spelled it out fiercely on Truth Social: “In order to make North Carolina, which has completely lost its furniture business to China, and other Countries, GREAT again, I will be imposing substantial Tariffs on any Country that does not make its furniture in the United States. Details to follow!!!”
The administration’s also gearing up for a 100% wallop on branded pharmaceuticals—carve-outs for the essentials, of course—to shield U.S. drug makers from predatory imports that undercut innovation and safety.
Heavy trucks? They’re next, facing a 25% hit to bolster American car manufacturers against foreign haulers gobbling market share.
Upholstered goods won’t escape either, with a 30% tariff designed to stuff jobs back into American factories instead of overseas sweatshops.
Stay tuned to the Fairview Gazette.
