President Trump Bashes South Korean Made Film “Parasite”
I think President Trump’s comments show how issues with South Korea are on the top of his mind:
President Donald Trump is apparently not a fan of ”Parasite,” his biggest complaint being that the movie was made in South Korea.
Trump started talking about the Academy Awards during a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday. Parasite was named best picture, becoming the first non-English-language film to get the top honor.
”What the hell was that all about?” Trump said. ”We’ve got enough problems with South Korea with trade. On top of that, they give them best movie of the year. Was it good? I don’t know.”
Neon, the U.S. distributor for the subtitled film, shot back on Twitter. ”Understandable. He can’t read,” Neon tweeted.The audience booed when Trump mentioned the Academy Awards and then cheered when he said: ”Can we get like ”Gone with the Wind’ back please? ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ so many great movies.”
Korea Times
Let me translate Trump for people that don’t understand him. It appears he has not even seen the movie; what he is complaining about is that he believes Hollywood should be making better American made movies instead of promoting foreign made movies during the Academy Awards. This is all consistent with Trump’s America first rhetoric he was been advocating for years on.
If Americans are so upset about this Oscar award to a Korean film, why don’t they just change the rules for the awards to prevent foreign films from winning, so that next time, only American films like the runner up movie, 1917, wins? I don’t think arguing over the rewarding of the film Parasite is worth so much controversy, as well as have so many Americans upset over this. I don’t want to see Americans bashing Koreans over this, so just make sure it doesn’t happen again.
@KoreanMan – I have not seen Parasite, so my comments here will not address the movie. As @GIKorea stated, this is all a part of Trump’s America First campaign coupled with the breakdown in talks with South Korea over defense expense sharing with the Moon administration. It’s a business negotiating tactic that works. Also, liberal lunatic Hollywood has been turning out a lot of crappy films in the past few years. Their goal now seems to be spending the most money on the most dazzling special effects. People used to be excited to tune into the Academy awards but they have so alienated the movie-going public with their social justice and left-leaning political agendas that their viewership is down by more than 50% in the last few years. Socially significant films are fine and Hollywood has always expressed their views through film, but it seems that this is all they can do in the 21st century.
@Tagum City Tim, how does Trump’s criticizing comments on Hollywood for picking Parasite for the Oscars help the US negotiating defense expense agreement? You would think this will turn off more South Koreans into becoming more hardliners towards Trump. I don’t see the connection. Trump just doesn’t like South Korea, or any other countries except Israel and Russia, everyone knows that. If he’s so concerned with US spending so much money propping up the foreign countries, why isn’t he hating Israel which gets so much American economic and military aid?
Korean Man, you sound more like Turkey Man…
All that talk of Trump gonna start a nuke-throwing contest with Kim Fatty didn’t pan out. All the talk of China tariffs turned out different. Krugman was wrong about the economy. Obama was wrong about manufacturing jobs. Etc.
Stickvto something you’re good at and let Trump do the same…
Trump’s whining about Parasite winning included his touting of an extremely racist movie, one that was widely seen as incredibly racist (and thus faced many protests) when it was released. Yeah, Trump isn’t all about “America first”; he’s really about “White first”.
Gone with the Wind had a diverse cast.
Parasite was completely yellow-washed yet was filled with cultural appropriation of so much of the white man’s culture… benevolently introduced to help our little Asian brothers and sisters yet now fully appropriated without gratitude nor credit.
Fortunately, White First Trump sees this clearly… but since he can’t take it out on crafty little Asians, he has punished the blacks and browns by making them work in record numbers… and with higher pay so they can buy more guns and drugs to kill each other.
Gotta admit… Imperial Wizard Trump knows how to play 5D chess!
what an arrogant crusty fart. 😆
@KoreanMan – His tactics of criticism are a proven psychological trick that elicits a certain reaction and shows his opponents he is adamant in what he is saying. As for the rest of your last message, you certainly know all of the liberal talking points. Trump is not a diplomat, he is a businessman whose goal is always to win for his side (which now happens to be the USA), hence his slogan America First. As for South Korea, how long has the USA allowed South Korea to take advantage in trade and other areas that benefited their economy? The USA provides South Korea with a service that has kept them free to be a capitalist nation for nearly 70 years. If the USA had pulled its troops from Korea in the 50s, the whole country would be united under iron-fisted socialist rule of the Kim dynasty.
@Tagum City Tim, like you mean South Korea buys many of the American military equipments for decades, provides military aid to America’s past wars like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and pays for USFK’s free real estate for decades while keeping US mainland safe from North Korean/Chinese ballistic missiles? Let’s not forget it was an originally US plan (along with USSR) to divide the country in half in 1945, they essentially created this geopolitical mess in first place. The whole nonsense that US “saved” South Korea is just half-truth, half bullshit. Also, South Korea wasn’t a “free” country until after late 1980s democratization elections happened. Let’s be clear here, US military was and is only there for their own strategic geopolitical agenda, not for South Korea. Read Bob Woodward’s book “Fear” and you know how important these US bases are.
As for the Dotard, he’s making a big mistake of pissing off South Korea. The whole nonsense that we have trade war with South Korea? lol Of course he won’t say that about Israel and how much aid we give them annually. If South Korea does want US troops out, this would hurt us as this would negatively affect our influence on the region, plus lose our radar feed to monitor NK and China more closely. South Korea would want their own nuclear bomb as a result.
@PhilipSmith – You’re probably not old enough to remember when the South Koreans dumped electronics and cars on the American economy at below market prices (called dumping in international parlance) violating the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, a forerunner to the World Trade Organization) in the 1980s when their economy was just starting to take off. Little was done and America had to absorb all those cheap TVs and VCRs as well as the flood of Hyundai cars, costing the economy millions of dollars in lost trade. South Korea has always had high tariffs on American products, that’s why the black market around USFK bases always thrives so well, even today. As for buying all that American-made military hardware, they bought very little compared to other countries because they had the Americans there to protect them and did not need to expend the money to defend themselves, saving money to boost their economic position. The South Koreans’ benefit from having the U.S. stationed there far outweighs any strategic advantage the U.S. gets. These days we can keep an eye on NK from as far away as Hawaii with only remote equipment placed at strategic points inside South Korea and satellite technology. If the US were to pull all of its troops from South Korea tomorrow, it would not make a bit of difference strategically unless Japan wanted to kick us out too (which is a much better bet than South Korea ever doing it). Also, we could always augment our presence on Guam and still have an effective force for NK deterrence.
If I can put up with eight years of Obama apologizing to the world for America being such a “bad boy” then everyone else can just suck it up and put up with Trump rebuilding America’s position all around the world. His tactics worked well on the Mexicans, Canadians, Chinese, on NATO, and, in some small way, got Great Britain out of the EU, which is a monumental step considering the mess that the EU is in now with all the migration from the Middle East and Africa. So, in the words of a waitress on an old TV show which none of you probably ever heard of, “Kiss my grits!”
So the $5 billion a year demand is a payback for the 1980’s? 🙄
Couldn’t Trump waited a little? Lot of Koreans getting sick and a quite a few will die in the coming days. Economy wrecked, all industries stopped, tourism is dead, no exports, no money. SK now has a national emergency risking its very existence. The first priority is the virus. The 500% wage increase has to wait. In the mean time, why can’t the USFK justify the cost increases, by showing where all the money is going? Show us the document breaking down the costs in detail, where is all the money going? And why does the USFK have over a billion dollars sitting in the bank collecting interest when they’re so desperately short of money?
Turkeyman, During the 625, the proportion of troops fighting communists was 70% US, 23% Korean, and 7% Other Nations.
You’re welcome; but please pipe down while the adults are talking.