He blamed a “concerted effort” by other countries that offer incentives to attract filmmakers and studios, which he described as a “National Security threat”.
“WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!”
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick responded to the announcement, saying “We’re on it”.
This is an actual thing. I figured it was made up, but no, Trump is serious. :)
I would find the enforcement of the statute as funny as the next person. But wouldn’t the commerce secretary be initializing the tariff here not the president?
Cabinet is part of POTUS office.
turns out you can in fact do precisely whatever the fuck you want if you can just write a tweet and whoever has the authority just does it unquestioningly