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>
>   Voight, with the cash from early success, became
>   a sort of total drunk for 20+ years. 

He's still a drug addicted drunk, just like Hegseth and Trump.

That ignorant queer will keel over and be dead soon along with his queer 
boss Trump.  They're both old sick and unhealthy.   Death awaits.



Fat old Trump has no power over hollywood.   I expect him to be dead by 
2026, dead in a puddle of his own shit.


"The Berman Amendment provided that, apart from materials designed to 
promote terrorism, the president does not have “the authority to regulate 
or prohibit, directly or indirectly ... the importation from any country, 
or the exportation to any country, whether commercial or otherwise, 
regardless of format or medium of transmission, of any information or 
informational materials, including but not limited to publications, films, 
posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, 
compact disks, CD ROMs, artworks, and news wire feeds.”"

Tariffs and Other Governmental Controls on Foreign Films, Movies and Social 
Media

Written by 

John R. Vile
, published on May 13 
 

President Donald Trump has announced that he plans a 100% tariff on all 
movies imported into the United States that are made in "foreign lands." 
The American film industry makes some of its movies in other countries and 
some lawyers have questioned whether such a tariff would infringe on 
freedom of speech. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Pointing to economic problems faced by the film industry and incentives 
that other nations have offered to entice filmmakers to shoot movies 
abroad, on May 4, 2025, President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social 
that he planned to set in motion a 100% tariff on “any and all Movies 
coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands” (Alpert 2025).

In 1917, Congress adopted the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWE), which 
allowed the president during times of national emergencies to embargo 
transactions with hostile nations (Michalec 1992, 813). The International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 further gave the president authority 
over tariffs, an area that is traditionally exercised by Congress under its 
power over foreign commerce and taxation.

While economists and members of the U.S. film industry attempt to assess 
the ultimate impact of such tariffs, how they would be levied, and what 
effect they might have on increasing movie prices (White and Mason 2025; 
Zahn 2025), some lawyers are questioning the constitutionality of the 
tariff. They point out that in 1988 Congress adopted the Berman Amendment 
to the 1977 Emergency Economic Powers Act, which is found in Volume 50, 
Section 1702 of the U.S. Code under “Presidential authorities.” 
Berman Amendment bars president from regulating film imports

The Berman Amendment provided that, apart from materials designed to 
promote terrorism, the president does not have “the authority to regulate 
or prohibit, directly or indirectly ... the importation from any country, 
or the exportation to any country, whether commercial or otherwise, 
regardless of format or medium of transmission, of any information or 
informational materials, including but not limited to publications, films, 
posters, phonograph records, photographs, microfilms, microfiche, tapes, 
compact disks, CD ROMs, artworks, and news wire feeds.”

In Trump’s first administration, the Berman Amendment came into play when 
courts ruled that Trump did not have authority to ban the social media 
platform TikTok from operating in the United States, unless it was sold to 
a non-Chinese owner. (China-based ByteDance, Ltd. owns TikTok.) Congress 
responded by changing the law to provide an exception for TikTok. Relying 
on this change, Trump issued another order directed against TikTok in his 
second administration, which he has, however, subsequently paused.
Film industry generates a trade surplus

Whereas Trump has aimed his highest tariffs on nations that have huge trade 
balances in their favor, the film industry has been quite lucrative for the 
U.S., generating a trade surplus of $15.3 billion a year (Alpert 2025).

Trump’s proposed tariff on foreign-made films may have less to do with 
First Amendment concerns over the free flow of ideas than with preserving 
jobs in the U.S. film industry. That might mean that the tariff would not 
violate traditional First Amendment prohibitions on content or viewpoint 
discrimination. Courts faced with a challenge on such a tariff might focus 
more on interpreting the language of the tariff than on constitutional 
issues.

In the meantime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed that Trump 
support a film tax credit program instead (Ables 2025).

John R. Vile is a political science professor and dean of the Honors 
College at Middle Tennessee State University.
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/tariffs-and-other-governmental-
controls-on-foreign-films-movies-and-social-media/