Screen Actors Guild could self-discipline, expel Donald Trump
After leaving the White House, President Donald Trump could lose his SAG card, too.
The Screen Actors Guild mentioned Tuesday that the SAG-AFTRA board voted “overwhelmingly” that there’s possible trigger that Trump violated its tips for membership. The prices, the guild mentioned, are for Trump’s function within the Capitol riot on January 6, “and in sustaining a reckless campaign of misinformation aimed at discrediting and ultimately threatening the safety of journalists, many of whom are SAG-AFTRA members.”
If discovered responsible by a disciplinary committee, Trump faces expulsion.
Trump has been a SAG member since 1989. His credit embody The Apprentice, Saturday Night Live and lots of cameos in movies and TV collection together with Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Sex in and City.
The SAG board acted in response to a request from Gabrielle Carteris, the guild’s president.
“Donald Trump attacked the values that this union holds most sacred — democracy, truth, respect for our fellow Americans of all races and faiths, and the sanctity of the free press,” mentioned Carteris in a press release. “There’s a straight line from his wanton disregard for the truth to the attacks on journalists perpetrated by his followers.”
A White House spokesman didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark Tuesday.
Losing SAG membership doesn’t disqualify anybody from performing. But most main productions abide by union contracts and rent solely union actors.
Online petitions have lately circulated to have Trump faraway from some movies. One is attempting to rally assist to have President-elect Joe Biden digitally substituted for Trump in Home Alone 2.