Former President Donald Trump basically just told the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) to kick rocks after they threatened him with expulsion from their union after the events at the Capitol building in Washington D.C. on January 6.
In a letter to SAG-AFRTA President and former “Beverly Hills 90210” actress Gabrielle Carteris, Trump prefaced his resignation from the union by writing “Who cares!”
“I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership,” Trump wrote in a letter obtained by Fox News. “Who cares!”
Trump also wrote about his film and television credits while pointing out what he felt were policy failures on the part of Carteris and the SAG-AFTRA union in general. That’s when Trump announced that he was preemptively resigning from the union before they even had a chance to make a decision on whether to revoke his membership or not.
“I no longer wish to be associated with your union," Trump said in the letter. "As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resigning from SAG-AFTRA.”
For the full transcript of Trump’s letter to SAG-AFTRA and Carteris, read below:
Ms. Carteris:
I write to you today regarding the so-called Disciplinary Committee hearing aimed at revoking my union membership. Who cares!
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!
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.
Which brings me to 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?”
These, however, are policy failures. Your disciplinary failures are even more egregious.
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.
Regards,
President Donald Trump
The sad part is that whether the points Trump raises about the union in his letter are accurate or not, knowing the Hollywood cult’s tendencies, they’ll just think that Trump saved them the headache of getting rid of him instead of possibly examining whether or not said points have any merit and need to be remedied.