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President Trump slammed Gavin Newsom connected Tuesday conscionable hours aft the California politician asked for collaboration connected a monolithic movie taxation credit.
"California built the movie manufacture — and we're acceptable to bring adjacent much jobs home. We've proven what beardown authorities incentives tin do," Newsom's post connected X said. "Now it's clip for a existent national concern to Make America Film Again."
His petition came aft the President announced implicit the play that helium would enforce 100% tariffs connected each films produced extracurricular the U.S. In a station connected Truth Social, Mr. Trump said the nation's movie manufacture was "DYING a precise accelerated death."
The movie manufacture has taken aggregate hits successful caller years, notably the COVID pandemic successful 2020 and the Hollywood strikes successful 2023. Production has failed to instrumentality to pre-pandemic levels since experiencing a 22% drop successful the archetypal 4th of 2025 from 2024 levels.
Last year, Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proposed an summation successful California's yearly movie taxation credit from $330 cardinal to $750 million.
President Trump shakes hands with California Governor Gavin Newsom arsenic helium speaks to the property aft arriving astatine Los Angeles International Airport connected January 24, 2025, to sojourn the portion devastated by the Palisades and Eaton wildfires.
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Mr. Trump spoke astir Newsom and galore different topics erstwhile questioned by reporters during an Oval Office gathering with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and others to denote that the NFL draught would beryllium held successful Washington successful 2027.
Mr. Trump said the American movie manufacture has been "decimated" by different countries and the "grossly incompetent" Newsom, which helium said caused the movie manufacture to "abandon" the U.S. But helium vowed that "we'll get it back." He said he'll beryllium gathering with immoderate movie manufacture executives to "make definite they're blessed with" the prospective tariffs.
The president referred to the California High-Speed Rail project, which would tally betwixt San Francisco and Los Angeles.
"A small bid going from San Francisco to Los Angeles that's being tally by Gavin Newscum, the politician of California. Ever heard of Gavin Newscum?" Mr. Trump said. "That bid is the worst outgo overrun happening I've ever seen. ... It's hundreds of billions for a anserine task that should've ne'er been built."
Mr. Trump did person immoderate little but benignant words for Newsom successful the midst of his barrage.
"And Gavin, you know, I ever similar Gavin, had a bully narration with him," helium said.
He besides touched connected the January chaotic fires, claiming that helium gave h2o to California.
"I conscionable got him a batch of water. I sent successful radical to unfastened up that water, due to the fact that helium refused to bash it," Mr. Trump said. "If they would person had that h2o and if they would person done what I said to do, they wouldn't person had the fires successful Los Angeles, those fires would person been enactment retired precise quickly,"
The president visited Los Angeles successful late-January, weeks aft 2 monolithic fires devastated other ends of Los Angeles County.
"I don't deliberation you tin recognize however unsmooth it is, however devastating is until you spot it," Mr. Trump said astatine the time. "I mean, I saw a batch of atrocious things connected television, but the grade of it, the broadside of it, we flew implicit it successful a helicopter. We flew to a fewer of the areas, and it is devastation."
Mr. Trump's comments ended with a situation for the Golden State's governor.
"I'd emotion him to tally for president connected the different side. I'd emotion to spot that, but I don't deliberation he's going to beryllium moving due to the fact that that 1 task alone, well, that and the fires and a batch of different things beauteous overmuch enactment him retired of the race," helium said.
Dean Fioresi is simply a web shaper for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking quality passim Southern California. When he's not penning astir section events, helium enjoys focusing connected sports and entertainment.
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