Trump’s talk of film tariffs makes no sense, but it’s already doing damage – to Hollywood | Peter Bradshaw

The US president's bizarre talk of 100% levies on films from foreign lands' combines trolling with a hazy grasp of facts

Another day, another bizarre, mischievous, headline-hogging pronouncement from the US president.

Steve Bannon famously advised him to flood the zone with shit - a Maga-Maoist permanent revolution of provocative, toxic nonsense. Trump is flooding the zone with tariffs, then he pauses, walks back and climbs down on tariffs, and then adds more tariffs. The latest is his bizarre plan to hit movies made in foreign lands" with 100% tariffs. He has solemnly announced his grave concern that Hollywood was dying" at the hands of foreigners like the UK, who give tax breaks to multinationals.