🇺🇸 Donald Trump Orders 100 Per Cent Tariff On Movies Produced Outside Of The USA

US President Donald Trump has announced a 100 per cent tariff on movies "produced in foreign lands".

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam nation Trump, what's he up to? I
read something yesterday that said, that's a thing that said
Trump officially has entered the psychotic emperor phase. He's not
coming back the Pope image?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Was it?

Speaker 1 (00:15):
That was the line. He's crossed it and he's just
kept walking. He's not trolling anymore. This is clinical delusion,
the tariffs on movies, reopening Alcatraz, saying these aren't policies.
This is a man psychotics wants to reopen Alcatraz as
a federal prison.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Right, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
So and he said they say here, look, this is
what the same thing went on to say. Margat is
clapping along like it's a church revival. No one is
driving the bus anymore. He's just throwing They're throwing gasoline
in the air and screaming Kumbaya and Hallelujah. The latest
thing we hear is that Donald Trump is announced one
hundred percent tariffs on movies produced in foreign lands. And
Australia makes a lot of American movies. So remind me,

(00:54):
Brendan how the tariffs would work on films that aren't
made in America.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Four Guy, for example, was a film made here and
it was pretending to be in America, yes, and then
actually anyway, so they make that movie here. Everyone comes
over here, makes the movie, and then when it goes
back to America to be screen there will be a
tariff of one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
The cinema goers would pay.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
That would be all pastime company yea, the film company
would pay it. So they would incentive.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Therefore being make your own films in America.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
And they make the movies here because it's cheaper to
make it here.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Because in America Hollywood has become such that it's quite
expensive to make a movie.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
We have huge incentives here in Australia. There's a thirty
percent location offset offered by the federal government, thirty percent
offset for post production for digital and visual effects, and
many state governments within that also have their own incentives.
So many American companies make films here, employ Australians. It's
a big industry for Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
People like Rebel Wilson, for example, wouldn't have had her
international career if it wasn't for Hollywood making movies over here.
Ghost Rider, remember her star turned She was just the
woman in the alley. Could you tell us about.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
The good Samaritan.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Well, I'll never forgetting that for sure. He was tall,
broad shoulders and thin, really thin, like bloney.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Oh, and his face was a skull.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
And it was on fire. There was that Nicholas Cage film.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, but it started off well, some big films.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
For example, when I was living in Cujie. I still
live in Culjie, But when we first moved to Cudjie
and Lim was a newborn baby, the woman from them
who was carry Anne Moss from the Matrix was living
downstairs and she was having night shoots all kind of things.
I was so anxious that I had a crying baby,
and I kept looking out to see if Keanu would

(02:44):
ever drop in. I went up to visit my mum
and dad with my newborn baby and Harley phone and said,
listen to this, and he put the phone out the
window and I heard happy birthday, dear Kianu, birthday part
of him in the backyard.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
And where are you but with your son, with your
mom's son and my mom and my dad.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
But it's a huge industry. It generates about one point
three to eight billion dollars in box office revenue. The
Australian Cinema industry. This is what's been targeted, and our
government has said we're not going to take this lying down.
We are going to fight back. I think they're saying
that because they got excited, as you did, to see
Sidney Sweeney on the front page of the paper because
she made a film here in Australia.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
No, any time that they put Sydney Sweeney on the
front page of the newspaper's a good time.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
But I wonder if we do our own personal protest,
that we just refuse to interview international guests when they
come out here. Sidney Sweeney, I'm sorry, No, that's personal. No,
I think you said that it mattered a lot to
you that we stand up for our industry.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
No, I think any exceptions anyway, But Donald he makes exceptions,
and surely we can do the same.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Surely