Whoopi Goldberg would love President Donald Trump and his administration to get their priorities so as — ideally earlier than tackling Hollywood.
Goldberg’s seen disdain for Trump stays on full show on “The View” because the president has as soon as once more zeroed in on what she deems to be a spectacular misuse of time.
On Tuesday’s episode, the EGOT winner sounded off on the administration’s proposed 100% tariffs on American movies produced abroad.
“The trade war waged by you-know-who, is now targeting Hollywood, with threats to impose a 100% tariff on American movies made overseas,” Goldberg mentioned.
On Sunday, Trump took intention on the movie trade for shifting productions abroad resulting from different nations’ tax incentives, saying it’s a “national security threat.”
“The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” Trump wrote in a publish on Fact Social. He continued to say that “Hollywood and many areas within the U.S.A are being devastated.”
Enter actor Jon Voight — considered one of Trump’s self-declared “special ambassadors” to Hollywood — who, in a video posted Monday on X, previously Twitter, praised the president’s supposed love for showbiz.
“I recently met with our president, Donald J. Trump, who loves the entertainment business, wants to see Hollywood thrive and make films bigger and greater than ever before, as he says, and see productions come back to American Hollywood,” the actor mentioned.
After the clip performed on this system, a visibly exasperated Goldberg struggled to comprise her disbelief.
She then snapped and mentioned, “Could you please lower the price of eggs before you start this?”
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The actor went on to elucidate: “When you go over to another country to work, you work with the people who are there. We don’t import our folks to go over there. So, who are you going to put this tariff on? Is it on the production? Is it on the studio? What are you talking about?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in with a extra measured evaluation: “I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about.”
She added that “the 10 highest grossing movies in the world last year were all released by U.S. studios, and so, we export that to other countries, giving us, in the United States, more income.”
