Teamsters Boss Praises Trump Foreign Film Tariff, Condemns Hollywood's 'un-american Addiction To Outsourcing'

Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien and Teamsters Motion Picture Division Director Lindsay Dougherty praised President Donald Trump’s telephone to spot a 100% tariff connected films produced successful different countries.

In a Truth Social station connected Sunday, Trump wrote that nan "Movie Industry successful America is DYING a very accelerated death." He went connected to warn, "Other Countries are offering each sorts of incentives to tie our filmmakers and studios distant from nan United States," and that, "Hollywood, and galore different areas wrong nan U.S.A., are being devastated." 

Trump added that plans to institute a tariff are successful nan works, and he authorized nan Department of Commerce and nan United States Trade Representative "to instantly statesman nan process of instituting a 100% Tariff connected immoderate and each Movies coming into our Country that are produced successful Foreign Lands."

The 2 representatives of nan Teamsters national praised Trump for this successful a statement, saying, "For years, Hollywood studios person hollowed retired nan manufacture by pursuing Corporate America’s crooked playbook of outsourcing bully national jobs. Studios pursuit inexpensive accumulation costs overseas while gutting nan American workforce that built nan movie and TV industry."

The Teamsters president praised Trump for nan caller tariff he proposed, suggesting that Democrats are reflexively against immoderate schedule he embraces.

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"These gigantic corporations statement their pockets by recklessly cutting corners, abandoning American crews, and exploiting taxation loopholes abroad," nan connection added. "While these companies get rich | fleeing to different countries and gaming nan system, our members person gotten screwed over. The Teamsters Union has been sounding nan siren for years. If studios want to use from American container offices, they must put successful American workers. 

The connection included an definitive connection of praise for Trump himself, declaring, "We convey President Trump for boldly supporting bully national jobs erstwhile others person turned their heads. This is simply a beardown measurement toward yet reining successful nan studios’ un-American addiction to outsourcing our members’ work."

The national clarified that they are consenting to praise representatives of immoderate statement for embracing specified an agenda.

"The Teamsters applaud immoderate elected charismatic — Republican, Democrat, Independent — who’s consenting to conflict for American workers," nan connection read. "We look guardant to continuing to activity pinch nan management to build a waste and acquisition schedule that benefits our members and workers passim nan American mobility image and TV industry."

It concluded, "It’s clip to create bully movie jobs present astatine location by bringing accumulation backmost to America."

Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien praised president Trump's projected tariff, arguing that Hollywood has tons its measurement by putting profit complete creativity.

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O’Brien said astir nan union's connection connected Fox News’ "America Reports" Tuesday, reaffirming his support for Trump’s policy. He based on that America has nan astir imaginative workforce and actors, but shredded Hollywood leaders for being much focused connected "the bottommost statement of a equilibrium sheet" than creativity.

At 1 constituent successful nan interview, Fox News big John Roberts asked nan national leader what he thinks astir really Democrats are "demonizing" nan president. O’Brien suggested that nan Democratic Party is reflexively against thing Trump wants. 

"I deliberation I’ve said this before, immoderate President Trump does, moreover if it’s bully for this country, conscionable because his sanction is Trump, he’s not gonna get nan support," O’Brien said of nan Democratic Party. "We are looking beyond immoderate differences of opinions that we person had pinch anybody."

President of nan International Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien speaks connected shape connected nan first time of nan Republican National Convention astatine nan Fiserv Forum connected July 15, 2024 successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)  (Getty Images)

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"We want to bring manufacturing backmost to nan country. We want to bring jobs, put group to activity at, person a profession path. Not everybody has nan expertise to spell to a 4-year college. There is an expertise to bring manufacturing back, put group to work, person careers and unrecorded a middle-class life. I deliberation sloppy of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, aliases an Independent, we should beryllium realists and want to promote group to create and manufacture successful this country," he concluded. 

Fox News’ Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.