Posted on 08/09/2019 9:52:34 AM PDT by EdnaMode
President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on Hollywood on Friday, telling reporters on the White House lawn, “Hollywood is racist.”
When asked by reporters whether he felt recent acts of violence in the country had anything to do with his own often provocative rhetoric, Trump turned the tables: “You talk about ‘racist.’ Hollywood is racist,” he said. “What they’re doing, with the kind of movies they’re putting out, it’s actually very dangerous for our country. What Hollywood is doing is a tremendous disservice to our country.”
He offered no specifics about what movies or programming he felt were “dangerous.”
Picking up on a theme of his re-election campaign, which repeatedly has referenced “Hollywood megadonors” to his Democratic challengers, the president also criticized what he felt was a political bias by Hollywood companies.
“They treat conservatives, Republicans, totally different than they treat others,” he said, again offering no specifics.
Trump’s remarks come amid continued questioning of his rhetoric following the mass shootings over the weekend that claimed more than 30 lives. The suspected gunman behind the El Paso, Texas, massacre posted a white-supremacist manifesto to 8chan before the attack took place Saturday.
That manifesto described a Hispanic “invasion” of the country. Trump frequently uses that word when discussing immigration.
Watch below via CBS:
He offered no specifics? Oh please! Their movies are even racist against blacks half the time. Violence and racism are their trademarks. And every movie mentions repression or cops killing innocent people.
‘Very Dangerous for Our Country’
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Like ‘The Hunt. A movie focusing on hunting Deplorable Trump Supporters.
Good to see Trump hit Hollywood where it hurts. I am more interested in the fact that actors and directors are hypocrites (throwing rocks and living in glass houses).
The revenues from violent action movies have to be pretty high.
OTOH, I don’t want the feds regulating them. Actually, they should self regulate. Just my opinion.
Has that manifesto been proven to be from him? Most writers would use "allegedly" in that sentence...except now. Hmmmm....kinda makes Trump's point.
Hollywood does turn out some films that are just AWFUL
in both the attitudes and roles portrayed
and in the extremes of violence (and sicko sex) they screen
.....
Hollywood did clean up a long time ago, and it took Congressional concern to get them to do it. They did a fairly good job of cleaning up...but since... have thrown all that progress away. Many of the movies are more rotten than ever. And Congress will do nothing now... since Congress is now just as depraved and greedy and corrupted as Hollywood
Exactly, they avoid targeting true enemies of the US (RE: the remake of Red Dawn), and are just fine with attacking fellow Americans — “Trump supporters.”
Hollywood is not “racist”. Hollywood is certainly anti-white. Trying to turn “racist” around on the Left is useless. It convinces no one at all. They have a different definition of the word. It’s their word. They invented it. They defined it. They weaponized it.
“They also do a poor job writing interesting roles for blacks, hispanics and Asians, and instead have them play roles that were previously played by white actors.”
They really are out of ideas. Space Crap and Cape Crap has kept Hollywood going for a while, along with endless reboots (Charlie’s Angels incoming!). It’s far too much to ask for a role that’s a female, black, or Asian villain; how about just a female, black, or Asian character that has to actually overcome a struggle as part of a character arc? How about Rey (Bella, Arya, whatever the name is) makes even a minor mistake in the next Star Wars movie? Unlikely.
On one hand you don't want to give the unhinged, radical leftists any ideas.
On the other hand, Hollywood is openly showing us their murder-fantasy endgame so this works as a warning.
Also, as I understand it, Deplorables eventually gain the upper-hand and strike back.
What does Trump think a future Eric Holt will do with Trump’s Red Flag Law?
Yup. Some of the public has become desensitized to violence from watching movie and tv blood and guts shows and video games that they believe it’s acceptable to commit crime. The PG and MA classifications are about as useful as the silly 911 color-coded alerts.
I just saw one.
“The intruder”.
Nice black couple buy a house from an evil stalker white dude that seems nice at first. Complete with the ONLY other white character as an friend that is a jerk...and gets killed.
If you can remember back to 1968, mildly violent TV shows and movies were the things blamed for causing the murder of Bobby Kennedy by a Palestinian immigrant.
In the anti-gun anti-violence hysteria that followed...
TV shows immediately dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Movies on TV were butchered to remove “violence”.
But the movie industry claimed they would “police themselves” with a joke of a ratings system.
The Fox was guarding the henhouse.
They then reshot scenes adding more blood, guts and explicit sex to get the then covented “R” rating.
Now movie and TV violence are worse than they ever was.
I love it. A President with a backbone.
Racist! Racist! Racist!
I bet it’s driving them crazy. :)
Ping
Any theater that shows that movie will be bankrupt by the end of the year.
James Bond,
Now a black female!!!!
Yes. The Wild Wild West was summarily cancelled. Space Ghost and the like were replaced by Scooby Doo.
Gunsmoke, at a 9PM time for adults, went to a 7PM and dumbed down to a kiddie show. There were so many kids running around on the set that Milburn Stone (Doc) complained of them.
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