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Is Hollywood Self-Censoring to Please Trump?

40 min · 14 de jun de 2026
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Tara Palmeri sits down with producer Chris Fenton — dubbed "Hollywood's MAGA whisperer" — to unpack how an entire industry is learning to speak Donald Trump's language. With LA hemorrhaging jobs (50,000 lost in recent years) and production fleeing to the UK, Canada, and 80-plus countries offering national tax incentives, Hollywood is pushing for a federal film incentive to bring shoots back to America. The catch: getting it passed runs through a president who rewards allies and punishes critics. Fenton lays out the economics — state-by-state rebates, why Marvel left Georgia for Britain, and why the real beneficiaries are middle-class "below the line" crews in red states, not the Hollywood elite the public loves to hate. But Tara presses on the harder question lurking underneath the talking points: where does lobbying end and self-censorship begin? She and Fenton spar over whether studios are quietly shelving politically risky projects to avoid angering Trump, the payouts ABC and CBS have made, the firing of late-night hosts, and the broadcast networks afraid of losing their licenses. Fenton concedes the biggest tell of all: a film about Jeffrey Epstein that actually examined Donald Trump's role would "never get a full release" from a major studio. Tara argues it's the biggest corruption story of our time and 80% of the country would watch it — yet Hollywood won't touch it. Along the way: the China problem (why James Bond never has a Chinese villain), Steve Bannon's surprising openness to the idea, Fenton's own story of being shut out of left-leaning platforms, and his new faith-tinged comedy "Bad Counselors." 0:00 – Has Hollywood flipped? The new Trump-era dynamic 3:18 – What does a "MAGA translator" actually do? 5:31 – How the federal film incentive works: tax rebates, explained 7:20 – Do the studios just want to wait Trump out? 9:40 – Who wrote the talking points? "Everybody's on board" 11:11 – A charm campaign for Trump's attention — and promoting his own movie 13:14 – Importing foreign actors and trading talent like H-1B visas 16:43 – Tara's take: the quiet suppression campaign across news and entertainment 19:31 – Has Hollywood actually shifted scripts and hiring under Trump 2.0? 21:23 – Escapism vs. censorship: studios afraid to offend Trump 22:53 – Is this a push to make Americans more conservative? 28:04 – Networks afraid of losing their broadcast licenses 31:31 – The everyday Americans hurting beneath the political storm 36:06 – Will the subsidies pass? Midterms and Republican support 37:39 – The faith element in his film and its cross-political appeal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]

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