White House says 'no final decisions' made on foreign moviemaking tariffs as Trump weighs 'national security'

The White House said Monday "no last decisions" person been made regarding the Trump administration's planned tariffs connected foreign moviemaking, arsenic 1 adept welcomed the imaginable enactment arsenic a reprieve for the American movie industry. 

"Although nary last decisions connected overseas movie tariffs person been made, the Administration is exploring each options to present connected President Trump’s directive to safeguard our country’s nationalist and economical information portion Making Hollywood Great Again," White House spokesperson Kush Desai said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

President Donald Trump archetypal announced successful a Truth Social station connected Sunday that helium was authorizing the Department of Commerce and the U.S. commercialized typical "to instantly statesman the process of instituting a 100% Tariff connected immoderate and each Movies coming into our Country that are produced successful Foreign Lands." Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick responded connected X, "We're connected it." 

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"The elite successful Hollywood volition mostly hatred this due to the fact that they’ve sold retired their workers successful favour of maximum profits portion shooting successful insanely inexpensive labour environments," Robby Starbuck, a erstwhile Hollywood shaper and blimpish activist, told Fox News Digital. "American workers who are referred to arsenic ‘below the line’ successful filmmaking are implicit the satellite astir getting much jobs backmost present and rental houses couldn’t beryllium happier."

"Overall, portion determination volition beryllium short-term symptom for studios, successful the agelong tally this volition fortify the American movie business," Starbuck said. "Also, communist China’s propaganda efforts instrumentality a large deed with this move."

On-location accumulation successful the greater Los Angeles country dropped by 22.4% successful the archetypal 4th of 2025 compared to the aforesaid clip past year, according to FilmLA, a nonprofit that organizes movie permits for the metropolis and county. 

One movie shaper told the New York Times past period that the Hollywood movie manufacture is undergoing an "existential crisis," arsenic the paper noted that world shows, indie films and adjacent blockbuster films are progressively making concern decisions to movie overseas to the detriment of the middle-class workers successful the Los Angeles-area, specified arsenic camera operators, acceptable decorators and lighting technicians. 

The paper noted that contempt Hollywood’s galore disposable studios, the crippled amusement "The Floor" chose to alert big Rob Lowe and 100 American contestants to Dublin, Ireland, alternatively than sprout the amusement domestically.

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The BBC reported that respective caller large films produced by U.S. studios were recorded overseas, including "Deadpool & Wolverine," "Wicked" and "Gladiator II." "Mission Impossible" besides was changeable extracurricular the United States. 

In his Truth Social post, Trump said the movie manufacture successful America is "DYING a precise accelerated death," arguing that different countries "are offering each sorts of incentives to gully our filmmakers and studios distant from the United States." 

"This is simply a concerted effort by different Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, successful summation to everything else, messaging and propaganda!" Trump wrote. "WE WANT MOVIES MADE IN AMERICA, AGAIN!" 

Trump told reporters Sunday that different countries person been "stealing" the moviemaking capabilities from the United States, saying that helium had done "some precise beardown probe implicit the past week." 

The president said the U.S. is "making precise fewer movies now" and that Hollywood is "being destroyed." 

Actor Jon Voight (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"You person an incompetent, grossly incompetent politician that allowed that to happen, truthful I’m not conscionable blaming different nations," Trump said, making a excavation astatine Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom. 

"But different nations person stolen our movie industry. They’re not consenting to marque a movie wrong the United States and we should person a tariff connected movies that travel in," Trump added. "Governments are really giving large money. I mean they’re supporting them financially, truthful that’s benignant of a menace to our state successful a sense. And it’s been a precise fashionable thing.… Moviemakers emotion it."

In January, Trump appointed stars Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone arsenic "special ambassadors" to Hollywood. 

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Voight – who is Angelina Jolie's begetter – reportedly has precocious been gathering with movie executives and national representatives successful Los Angeles portion crafting a program to revive the American moviemaking industry, Deadline reported. 

Trump's Hollywood ambassador has met with the Directors Guild of America, Teamsters and the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees truthful far, sources told the outlet.