Preventing Hollywood's "very fast death" could become Trump's 9th national emergency

President Trump offered an unexpected turn in his trade on Sunday evening by performing a 100% tariff for foreign films, but he did this in a familiar way by connecting that a national emergency declaration could be outdoors to achieve his goals.

“This is a concerted effort of other nations and thus a national security threat,” he posted through the social administration of the truth. He later added reporters that part of his problem is other countries that offer incentives for film production. “So this is a kind of threat to our country in a sense.”

Trump used a similar language before other formal explanations. His focus on emergency actions is a strategy that his team has been closely examining for years to help him move quickly and avoid congress.

It is also still possible that the Hollywood campaign will not be an emergency. Trump discussed emergencies, but refused to follow in some cases.

If he actually does this with Hollywood, according to Brennan Center for Justice, eight formal national emergencies that Trump has declared since taking office.

These proclamations extend to a large number of questions from energy to border to its mutual tariffs “liberation day”.

President Donald Trump when he returned to the White House after the weekend on May 4 (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images) · Saul Loeb about Getty Images

Trump tirelessly uses the emergency language, even if it is not supported by formal actions. In January, he placed “under emergency powers” in claims that were refuted by the California government through the detour of water in California.

Details remain just about what he has to do with films.

The White House refused to offer formal plans in the hours after his statement that goes beyond Trump's message that it authorizes the Ministry of Commerce and its sales representative “to start the process of introducing a 100% tariff on all films that are produced in our country that are produced in foreign countries”.

It is unclear whether an order would also apply to television or what exactly makes a film that is produced in overseas.

The move was quickly felt, with shares in companies such as Netflix (NFLX), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Walt Disney (Disney (Disney) in early trade on Monday.

Trump's focus on Hollywood is also a factor in two controversial personal relationships that have been in the first and the focus in the past few weeks.

Canada is an important goal for Hollywood film and television productions (whereby the nation actually offers generous incentives), and Trump's post comes because the President will meet the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the White House on Tuesday.

Topshot - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 2, 2025. US President Donald Trump said on April 30 that Carney would visit Washington in the coming week and greet him as greeted as — Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on May 2 at a press conference in Ottawa that he would visit Washington in the coming week. (Patrick Doyle/AFP via Getty Images) · Patrick Doyle about Getty Images

It is also just the latest in a long -term feud with the Californian governor Gavin Newsom.

Trump again hit reporters in the comments of the Sunday evening and called the California governor “roughly competent” and easily played down the Canadian connection by saying: “Canada is only one of many countries” that he threatens as Hollywood.

Trump is far from the only president of national emergencies, a characteristic of the US political landscape since the National Emergency Act of 1976, but he has stretched these powers to new heights.

According to the Brennan Center, 88 national emergencies have been called up over the years. And dozens remain technically from previous years.

Trump went on and called three emergencies on his first day of office. He also claimed comprehensive powers with his “liberation day” tariffs by declaring a national economic emergency using a law on the law of the international emergency management powers of 1977.

It is the power that made it possible Trump to take 10% tariffs on almost the whole world and achieve billions. Additional tasks are currently being carried out, but a summer period is threatened.

Ceres, California - April 16: The California governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference in the Gemperle Orchard on April 16, 2025 in Ceres, California. Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, have filed a lawsuit in front of a federal court that has questioned the use of emergency powers by the Trump administration in order to take extensive tariffs that violate states, consumers and companies. The tariffs have disturbed the supply chains, increased the costs for the state and the Californian and the Californian economy, the fifth largest in the world, causes billions of damages. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) — The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, speaks during a press conference in which he announced a lawsuit before the Federal Supreme Court, in which the use of emergency powers was questioned by the Trump administration to issue comprehensive tariffs. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) · Justin Sullivan about Getty Images

The President also said this weekend that free trade shops could be outdoors, but repeatedly added that he – derived from this emergency room – added to him as one that gives him almost unlimited width.

“We are negotiating with many countries, but in the end I will determine my own offers,” he said on Sunday and added that news on this front could come “at some point in the next two or three weeks”.

It is an approach from Trump that raised a number of legal questions, with Newsom in the center of the pushback and currently a lawsuit to remove Trump's emergency tariff powers.

“The President of the United States simply does not have the legal authority under the law on emergency economic powers to impose tariffs.” Newsom offered in a recent television appearance.

The case of Newsom is that the vagueness in 1977 does not directly allow a president to use tariffs as a means to combat an emergency.

Newsom, which also drives a plan to increase California film and television tax incentives, did not immediately answer Trump's latest push.

However, the governor's high -ranking communication consultant offered a message similar to the deadline in which he said possible Hollywood tariffs: “We believe that he has no authority to impose tariffs under the law on international economic needs, since the tariffs are not listed as legal remedies in accordance with this law.”

Ben Werschkul is a Washington correspondent at Yahoo Finance.

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