Trump Tariffs Come for the Movies

Let's all go to the lobby....and pay a tariff for all your treats

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I don’t know about you, but I’m personally sick to death of hearing about the giant Orange Person in the White House and how he and his merry band of sycophants are destroying everything. The movies are, as Nicole Kidman continues to remind me, “where we come for magic” and they’ve been bearing a fair amount of weight in my life, something I don’t see changing over the next three years. But, Trump finally made it to the film industry and thinks, yet again, he’s the only one who can save it destroy it.