Jon Voight partially reveals Trump’s roadmap to ‘make Hollywood great again’

Further airy has been shed connected Donald Trump’s tendency to enforce tariffs connected foreign-made films, with Jon Voight reportedly providing the president with a partial roadmap to assistance the Hollywood movie industry.

On Sunday (4 May) Trump took to societal media to marque overseas movie accumulation a “National Security threat”.

Posting connected his ain site, Truth Social, the US president wrote: “The Movie Industry successful America is DYING a precise accelerated death. Other Countries are offering each sorts of incentives to gully our filmmakers and studios distant from the United States. Hollywood, and galore different areas wrong the USA, are being devastated.

“This is simply a concerted effort by different Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, successful summation to everything else, messaging and propaganda! Therefore, I americium authorising the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to instantly statesman the process of instituting a 100 per cent Tariff connected immoderate and each Movies coming into our Country that are produced successful Foreign Lands.

“WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”

Details astir the arguable program person been scarce pursuing Trump’s rant, but Deadline has present reported that a squad comprised of Voight, peculiar advisor Steven Paul, and SP Media Group/Atlas Comics president Scott Karol has submitted a connection to Trump astatine his Mar-A-Lago resort, detailing however movie accumulation successful the US tin beryllium boosted.

Their thought is said to impact national taxation incentives, taxation codification changes, co-production treaties with different countries, arsenic good arsenic infrastructure subsidies for cinema owners, movie and tv accumulation companies and post-production companies. The trio’s program besides includes notes connected occupation training, and “tariffs successful definite constricted circumstances”.

In a video released connected X/Twitter, Voight, who was named arsenic 1 of Trump’s “special ambassadors” to Hollywood, claimed: “Our manufacture precocious has suffered greatly implicit these past fewer years, and galore Americans person mislaid jobs to productions that person gone overseas.”

Highlighting the seriousness of the situation, Voight added that “people person mislaid their homes” and “can’t provender their families”.

“The president loves the amusement concern and this country, and helium volition assistance america marque Hollywood large again,” said Voight, who won an Oscar successful 1979 for his show successful Coming Home.

In summation to Voight’s comments, Deadline reports that Paul said: “The American movie industry, and Hollywood, is simply a beacon for teaching the American Dream to the satellite and is an motor for occupation maturation and vocation opportunity. It’s indispensable that we sphere America’s enactment successful movie and tv production.”

Karol echoed these thoughts, stating: “We’ve spent months gathering with apical leaders crossed the movie and tv industry, and determination is wide statement that runaway accumulation has go a superior contented that needs to beryllium addressed now. This program is astir levelling the playing tract truthful that producing close present successful America is not lone a competitory enactment but the archetypal choice.”

On Sunday, the White House appeared to play down the severity of the tariffs, with spokesperson Kush Desai telling the Hollywood Reporter: “Although nary last decisions connected overseas movie tariffs person been made, the medication is exploring each options to present connected president Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s nationalist and economical information portion Making Hollywood Great Again.”

At the clip of penning nary meetings betwixt Trump and workplace producers person been scheduled. One root told Deadline: “We don’t adjacent cognize erstwhile this is expected to hap – it was sprung connected america this greeting erstwhile Trump made the announcement.”