Helena Lindblad: Did Trump sleep in front of the « Escape from Alcatraz »?
Being forced to follow Donald’s Trump’s smoking curtain-like plays feels increasingly like being locked up in fiction. This past weekend was extreme. First the AI-Generated image of Trump in Pope outfit. Then a totally confused threat to Hollywood in the form of customs 100 percent on films recorded outside the US borders. On his platform Truth Social, the president wrote that « foreign productions » is a « national security threat » against the American film industry and it brings « messages and propaganda ».
In the real world, for many years it has become too expensive to record in Los Angeles and therefore both films and television productions have moved partly states with tax relief and partly to other parts of the world. California governor Gavin Newsom, is currently trying to push through a sharp increase in the so -called production incentives – from $ 330 million to $ 750 million – just to keep the film jobs in the region. Something that is probably too complicated to understand for the 47th president to understand. But this equation is probably too complicated for the 47th president to understand it.
Maybe Trump had A TV night on the couch this weekend instead of studying tax discounts. According to information in social media, the Miamibas-based TV channel WBPT in Palm Beach on Saturday showed the « Escape from Alcatraz » (1979). Was that what gave birth to the idea? That is reopen Alcatraz as part of law enforcement. In the real world, the notorious prison, which among other things housed Al Capone and has become the subject of countless films, has been a well -attended museum and part of a national park for the past 60 (!)
But the question is whether Trump did not fall asleep right immediately in front of the TV. The Don Siegel-directed Clintan adventure is about the three bank robbers who in 1962 actually managed to escape from the inaccessible prisoner. Maybe not the world’s best symbol for safe storage of criminals? But a pretty good picture of what you dream of right now; The escape from this C-roll that is Trump’s regime.
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