The Hollywood Actors Guild has one less member. Before being fired, Donald Trump has signed off. “I am writing to you in relation to the hearing of the so-called disciplinary committee called to revoke my membership in the union. Who cares!”, The former president of the United States responds in an expressive letter to the notification of the opening of a file that, , could have ended with his expulsion from the powerful organization, SAG-AFTRA, which represents actors, presenters, journalists, technicians and other members of the entertainment industry.
Trump, however, seems hurt and in the letter, addressed to the actress and union president Gabrielle Carteris (Melissa, in Feeling of living) can not help but vindicate his career in the world of cinema and the small screen. “I am very proud of my work in films like Home alone 2, Zoolander Y Wall Street: Money never sleeps, in addition to television shows like The prince of Bel Air, Saturday Night Live and, of course, the most successful show in television history, The newbie, just to name a few! ” Trump defends that he has contributed to creating numerous jobs in the sector, including his hated CNN, and proclaims himself savior of the television industry: “It was said that he was dying until I got into politics,” he says.
The Hollywood Actors Union has published the resignation letter of former President Trump
A few weeks ago, the board of the powerful union decided to open a disciplinary file against Trump for “attacking the values” of the union and “inciting the attack on the US Capitol”, the same charge for which he was rejected and the Senate did. he will judge next week, in addition to his “reckless disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting and threatening the safety of journalists.” “There is a direct line between his lack of respect for the truth and the attacks perpetrated by his followers” against the press, defended Carteris.
“I no longer want to be a member of your union. Therefore, with this letter I inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have not done anything for me, “says Trump in the letter, sent from his former president’s office, installed in Palm Beach (Florida), where he moved immediately after leaving the White House. The tone of the text is similar to that of her old messages on Twitter, a social network from which she was expelled in January, also as a result of the assault on the Capitol. It was not his office that spread the letter but the actors’ union itself. His reaction has been no less eloquent than Trump’s, although much more terse: “Thank you,” responded Carteris and David White, the union’s executive director.
With 160,000 members spread across the globe, SAG-AFTRA is the largest trade union organization in the entertainment industry in the world. Trump became a partner in 1989 and, although his relations with Hollywood have been very tense in recent years, until now he has not particularly complained about the union. In his letter, he now accuses them of doing nothing for his partners, taking money from him and, furthermore, “promoting dangerous anti-American ideas.”
Trump maintains that they were after him to try to distract attention and hide their internal problems, in an apparent reference to protests that took place last year over changes in the health insurance offered to its members. Although leaving SAG-AFTRA does not prevent working in the sector, recalls the AP agency, most producers are bound by their contracts with the organization and only hire unionized actors.
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