The Wall Street Journal

Trump’s bad Hollywood trade movie

Trump’s bad Hollywood trade movie
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The Wall Street Journal
By Holman W Jenkins JrThe stock market was apparently recovering too much confidence in the Donald Trump administration. He fixed that with his spontaneous 100% tariff on foreign movies.No, it wouldn’t land on Americans the way some of his other tariff acts would. But his Sunday social-media post was an especially shimmering, Technicolor example of Mr. Trump messing with the economy and people’s livelihoods on whim, to satisfy his daily need of attention.It isn’t what industry representatives were seeking to put US production...

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