Jimmy Kimmel on the Hollywood rate plan of Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s confusing – and still not entirely clear – plan for saving Hollywood was the subject of many late night monologues on Monday evening, including on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
“Trump now sets up his scrap ball at Hollywood,” Kimmel noted in his monologue and this weekend noted that Trump’s social media post details, kind of his plan to save the entertainment industry:
“He wrote …” The film industry in America dies a very fast death. Other countries offer all kinds of incentives to pull our filmmakers and studios away from the United States. Hollywood and many other areas in the US are being destroyed. This is a joint effort from other nations and, therefore, a national security threat. ”
“That is why I authorize the Ministry of Trade, and the trade representative of the United States, to immediately start setting up a 100% rate on all films that come in our country produced in foreign countries. We want to make films again in America!”
Kimmel was on the vagueness of what this really means.
“We do that? Because I don’t care where they are being made. I really don’t do that,” he said. “Do you know what? It is what the late, large Hannibal Lecter had wanted … Sonic – the illegal immigrant redend – is a threat of national security and he must be stopped!
“And this wasn’t just a late Sunday evening for Trump. He said,” I did very strong research last week, “which means that he had a brunch with Jon Voight this weekend on Mar-A-Lago.”
When the audience chuckled, Kimmel noticed that it was not a joke – that was very true.
“This is where he reportedly received the rate, the idea of the films of the 86-year-old father of Angelina Jolie who she won’t talk to,” he said. “What a great idea. Next year ‘The White Lotus’ will take place in a Hampton Inn.”
The announcement of Trump that he ‘authorized the Ministry of Commerce and the trade representative of the United States to impose a rate of 100% on’ all ‘films produced in’ Foreign Lands’, led to a lot of skepticism and confusion in Hollywood on Monday, because nobody was really sure, or legally was on.
When Variety Money Monday, Trump’s comments came after actor Jon Voight and his producing partner, Steven Paul, met the president at the weekend and said they shared an “extensive” plan to save the entertainment industry. This plan includes federal stimuli for production and post -production, co -production behavior with abroad and infrastructure subsidies for theater owners and production companies, job education and changes in the tax code, but only called for rates in “certain limited circumstances”.
Here is the monologue of Kimmel from Monday evening on “Jimmy Kimmel Live”:
