Donald Trump‘s complicated — and nonetheless not altogether clear — plan for bailing out Hollywood was the topic of many a late evening monologue on Monday evening, together with on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”
“Trump’s now aiming his wrecking ball at Hollywood,” Kimmel famous in his monologue, noting Trump’s social media put up this weekend detailing, type of, his plan to rescue the leisure business:
“He wrote… ‘The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death. 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. This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat.’
“’Therefore, I am authorizing the Department of Commerce, and the United States Trade Representative, to immediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands. WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!’”
Kimmel zeroed in on the vagueness of what this actually means.
“We do? Because I don’t care where they’re made. I really don’t,” he stated. “You know what? It’s what the late, nice Hannibal Lecter would’ve wished… Sonic – the unlawful immigrant hedgehog – is a nationwide safety risk and he should be stopped!
“And this wasn’t just another late Sunday night whim for Trump. He said, ‘I have done some very strong research over the last week,’ which means he had brunch with Jon Voight at Mar-A-Lago this weekend.”
When the viewers chuckled, Kimmel famous that it wasn’t a joke — that was very true.
“This is where he reportedly got the tariff, the movies idea – from Angelina Jolie’s 86-year-old father she won’t talk to,” he stated. “What a great idea. Next year, ‘The White Lotus’ is gonna be set at a Hampton Inn.”
Trump’s announcement that he was “authorizing” the Department of Commerce and the United States Trade Representative to impose a 100% tariff on “any and all” motion pictures produced in “foreign lands” sparked loads of skepticism and confusion in Hollywood on Monday, as nobody was fairly positive what Trump was actually targeted on or if his plan was even enforceable, or authorized.
As Variety reported Monday, Trump’s feedback got here after actor Jon Voight and his producing associate, Steven Paul, met with the president over the weekend and stated they shared a “comprehensive” plan to rescue the leisure business. That plan consists of federal incentives for manufacturing and post-production, co-production treaties with overseas nations in addition to infrastructure subsidies for theater house owners and manufacturing corporations, job coaching, and modifications to the tax code, however solely known as for tariffs in “certain limited circumstances.”
Here’s Kimmel’s monologue from Monday evening on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”:
