Let's make ourselves ignorant-er? — Trump's foreign films tariffs

© 2025 Peter Free

 

05 May 2025

 

 

It is in the nature of fools not to consider consequences

 

Donald Trump, arguably the most ignorant of modern US presidents ever, struck another blow for sealing the United States off from Reality:

 

 

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a 100% tariff on movies produced outside the country, saying the American movie industry was dying a "very fast death" due to the incentives that other countries were offering to lure filmmakers.

 

"This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda," Trump said on Truth Social.

 

© 2025 Andrea Shalal and Tim Reid, Trump orders 100% tariff on foreign-made movies to save 'dying' Hollywood, Reuters (05 May 2025)

 

 

So . . .

 

Y'all Americans will believe our Oligarchy's incoherent, deadly narratives.

 

Or none at all.

 

At which point, we will arrest and jail you for silently exhibiting a lack of patriotism.

 

 

The moral? — Both poles of American politics are fascist

 

But at least we agree that (mind-destroying) autocracy is a splendid thing.

 

And notice — interminably so, again — that neither party in Congress will unify to oppose the president's usurpation of that body's constitutionally assigned tax, war and legislative governance functions.

 

Glory to the King.