Making American movies in the US again
The US’s first reality TV star president relies heavily on movies and TV as inspiration for his policy
It seems that US President Donald Trump has had the movies and Hollywood on his mind recently. First, the official White House account on X outraged the large and prickly constituency of global Star Wars fans when it posted an AI-generated image of an uber-buff president brandishing a lightsabre in celebration of the sacred day of May 4th, wishing well to all who celebrated, including “the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy”.
Just as that storm was exploding in its teacup online, the 47th president went on Truth Social to reveal the results of his latest deep ruminations on the state of the American film industry and his plans to destroy it, writing that: “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 US. Hollywood, and many other areas...
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