‘Who cares!’ Trump brags about roles in ‘Home Alone 2’ and ‘Zoolander’ in bitter union resignation letter

Donald Trump quits — SAG!

He nonetheless cannot tweet, however the former president was fast to sprint off a pointy resignation letter to a union representing actors, broadcasters and performing artists, after the group threatened to take away him.

Trump on Thursday penned the snippy note to say he was quitting SAG-AFTRA after the union took steps to probably revoke his membership for having incited the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“Who cares!” Trump wrote to SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Cateris, who publicly launched the missive quickly after getting it.

“While I’m not familiar with your work, I’m very proud of my work on movies such as Home Alone 2, Zoolander and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name just a few!” Trump wrote.

Trump, who till Jan. 20 was the president of the United States, then bragged that “I’ve also greatly helped the cable news television business (said to be a dying platform with not much time left until I got involved in politics), and created thousands of jobs at networks such as MSDNC and Fake News CNN, among many others.”

Trump’s letter deliberately misspelled the left-leaning MSNBC to hyperlink it to the Democratic National Committee.

Cateris, a former star of “Beverly Hills 90210,” final month initiated charges against Trump with the union’s national board, which found probable cause that he had violated the organization’s constitution.

Carteris accused Trump of sparking the Capitol riot, and of sustaining a misinformation marketing campaign that each discredited and threatened the protection of journalists, “many of whom are SAG-AFTRA members,” the group famous in a press release.

Trump confronted attainable penalties starting from reprimand to expulsion if discovered responsible by the union’s Disciplinary Committee.

That is a small punishment in comparison with the potential lifetime ban Trump faces from federal office — including the presidency — at his upcoming second impeachment trial in the Senate.

As with the union, Trump is accused in the Senate case of inciting the riot, in which hundreds of his supporters invaded the halls of Congress in a violent, however failed, effort to overturn President Joe Biden’s election. Five folks died from the riot, together with a Capitol Police officer crushed to dying by the mob.

In his huffy letter to Cateris, Trump referred to as the union’s motion towards him “your blatant attempt at free media attention to distract from your dismal record as a union.”

“Your organization has done little for its members, and nothing for me – besides collecting dues and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas –as evident by your massive unemployment rates and lawsuits from celebrated actors, who even recorded a video asking, ‘Why isn’t the union fighting for me?’ ” Trump wrote.

“These, however, are policy failures. Your disciplinary failures are even more egregious,” he added.

“I no longer wish to be associated with your union. As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me.”

The letter is likely one of the lengthiest statements by Trump in weeks.

Twitter, which Trump had obsessively used to communicated with supporters, set U.S. policy and fire insults at people and companies that drew his ire, completely banned him final month “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the corporate has mentioned.

Trump had been a member of the actors’ union since 1989, and had appeared as himself in quite a lot of films. His resignation doesn’t stop him from showing in future movie or TV tasks.

Several folks in present enterprise have mentioned that Trump would demand cameos in films that featured his properties.

The director Adam McKay in 2018 mentioned that that he filmed a Trump cameo for his 2010 comedy “The Other Guys” as a result of it featured Trump Tower.

McKay mentioned he reduce the Trump scene as a result of it was “too cheeseball.”

The actors Matt Damon and Chris O’Donnell have beforehand shared anecdotes about an identical quid professional quo by Trump.

Last month, Macaulay Culkin, the star of “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” tweeted “Bravo” when a fan of the film posted an edited version of Culkin’s scene at the Plaza Hotel in which his character Kevin asks Trump for directions to the lobby.

The model posted on Twitter had edited out Trump’s picture.