Kristen Stewart has slammed Donald Trump’s ‘terrifying’ tariff proposals targeting the movie industry, admitting she can’t ‘work freely’ in the US anymore.
The actress achieved global stardom as Bella Swan in the Twilight saga and has since turned her attention to indie projects, including her directorial debut, The Chronology of Water, which releases this February.
Having grown up in the entertainment industry – both her parents work behind-the-scenes in Hollywood – Kristen has seen the world of movies evolve and explained why, under Trump, the industry is no longer viable.
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Speaking to The Times, the 35-year-old explained that she shot her upcoming feature film in Latvia because it would have been ‘impossible’ to do in the US.
« Reality is breaking completely under Trump, » she said. « But we should take a page out of his book and create the reality we want to live in. »She also took aim at Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on movies made outside the US, calling it ‘terrifying’.
In a post on Truth Social, the President said that these tariffs were the result of the movie-making business being ‘stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries’, as he claimed it was ‘DYING a very fast death’.
Trump’s suggestion, made in September, has not yet come to fruition.
Currently, the Spencer star splits her time between Los Angeles and New York, but admits that might not be the case for much longer.
She told the publication she’s ‘probably not’ going to remain in the US, adding: « I can’t work freely there. But I don’t want to give up completely. »
Instead, she’s hatched another plan: « I’d like to make movies in Europe and then shove them down the throat of the American people, » she added.
This isn’t the first time Kristen and Trump have had beef. In fact, they go way back, long before Trump had ever set foot in the White House.
In 2012, while Kristen was dating her Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson, the actress became embroiled in a highly publicized cheating scandal involving her then-married Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
Both Stewart and Sanders apologized in separate statements, with her and Pattinson’s relationship temporarily ending before the pair rekindled in 2012. However, the two called it quits for good in 2013.
At the height of the fallout, Trump – who was still a reality TV star at the time – weighed in on the drama, posting a string of tweets about the couple. He urged Pattinson to end the relationship, writing that the Batman actor ‘should not take back Kristen Stewart’ and claiming she had ‘cheated on him like a dog’.
Trump then doubled down with further posts insisting Pattinson would be better off without her.
“Everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart,” he wrote, adding that Robert would ‘thank me’ in the future.
Years later, the Mickey 17 star would dismiss the episode as ‘weird,’ admitting he was confused as to why Trump appeared so invested in the situation.
Meanwhile, in 2024, Kristen said that Trump had to ‘weigh in on my tarring and feathering’, adding: « It’s like, ‘What is this 20-year-old who has no idea about life doing to this man?’ »
The US president has been called out over conflicting stock market claims as the economy shrunk for the first time in three years.
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, he’s vowed to ‘make America rich again’.
And with Elon Musk in tow, the government has been slashing federal budgets left, right, and center.
Yet Trump has managed to reign havoc on the stock market, causing $2 trillion to be lost in just 25 seconds earlier this month.
On Wednesday (April 30), the Commerce Department revealed the US economy shrunk by 0.3 percent between January and March, ending a three-year growth streak.
It pushes the country to the brink of a technical recession, defined by two quarters of negative growth. The last recession was a two-month period during 2020’s Coronavirus pandemic.
But Trump’s ruthless tariff war has been worrying economists – while the President claims these very tariffs will see soon the US markets ‘boom.’
China, one of the hardest-hit nations, faced a dramatic escalation as tariffs soared to 245 percent before Trump temporarily paused duty for all countries for 90 days.
In response, China, home of the world’s largest manufacturing sector, has retaliated in kind.
Meanwhile, Canada, is navigating a 25 percent tariff on all exports to the US, leaving newly appointed Prime Minister Mark Carney with the urgent task of redefining trade relations.
As expected, Trump took to social media to address the struggling economy, shifting the blame to Biden.
Posting to Truth Social on Wednesday (April 30), he wrote: « This is Biden’s Stock Market, not Trump’s. »
He continued in part: « I didn’t take over until January 20th. Tariffs will soon start kicking in, and companies are starting to move into the USA in record numbers.
« Our Country will boom, but we have to get rid of the Biden ‘Overhang’. »
Trump added the economic situation had ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH TARIFFS,’ only that Biden ‘left us with bad numbers.’
Yet, just 15 months prior, Trump claimed responsibility for the country’s thriving economy – while Biden was in power.
On January 29, 2024, Trump declared, in part: « THIS IS THE TRUMP STOCK MARKET BECAUSE MY POLLS AGAINST BIDEN ARE SO GOOD THAT INVESTORS ARE PROJECTING THAT I WILL WIN, AND THAT WILL DRIVE THE MARKET UP… MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! »
« Just incredible, » one person wrote, comparing the posts – and their dates – side by side.
« So according to Trump the stock market when Biden was president was Trump’s stock market, but the stock market while Trump is president is Biden’s? « Makes sense, » a second quipped.
A third joked: « TRUMP: ‘Stock market up, Trump. Stock market down, Biden. Sky blue, Trump, sky grey, Biden.' »
While at the podium, he insisted that Europe and NATO had to make a choice regarding the US’ desire to annex the Denmark-owned nation.
During his speech he said: « We want a piece of ice for world protection, and they [Denmark] won’t give it. We’ve never asked for anything else.
« We could have kept that piece of land and we didn’t. »
Speaking of Europe and NATO specifically he said: « They have a choice – you can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no, and we will remember. »
Seemingly confusing Iceland with Greenland, Trump said: “I’m helping Europe. I’m helping NATO, and until the last few days when I told them about Iceland.
“When I told them about Iceland, they loved me.
“They called me ‘daddy’ right, last time, a very smart man said ‘he is our daddy’, ‘he is out running it’. I was stuck running it, I went from running it to being a terrible human being.
“But now what I’m asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located.”
This appeared to be in reference to comments made by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte last year.
His ‘daddy’ comment followed on from Trump using expletives when discussing Iran and Israel violating a ceasefire agreement in June last year.
Interjecting, following Trump’s comments about the two nations, Rutte said: “Daddy has to sometimes use strong language to get them to stop. »However, following raised eyebrows across the political landscape, Rutte spoke to Reuters and clarified his comments.
He said he was using the term metaphorically to describe the relationship between the US and Iran and Israel in that situation, as well as the US’ relations with other nations.
He explained: “The ‘daddy’ thing — I didn’t call him ‘daddy’. In Europe, I hear sometimes countries saying, ‘Hey, Mark, will the U.S. stay with us?’ And I said that sounds a little bit like a small child asking his daddy, ‘Hey, are you still staying with the family?’
“So in that sense, I used ‘daddy’, not that I was calling President Trump ‘daddy.’”
