Trump was facing expulsion from the Screen Actors Guild, so he decided to resign. Photo / AP
Trump was facing expulsion from the Screen Actors Guild, so he decided to resign. Photo / AP
Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the Capitol riot in January.
In a letter dated Thursday and addressed to SAG-AFTRA president Gabrielle Carteris, Trump said he was resigning from the union that he had been a member of since 1989.
"I no longer wish to be associated with your union," wrote Trump in a letter shared by the actors guild. "As such, this letter is to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me."
Trump was facing expulsion from the Screen Actors Guild, so he decided to resign. Photo / AP
The guild responded with a short statement: "Thank you."
Last month, the SAG-AFTRA board voted that there was probable cause that Trump violated its guidelines for membership by his role in the January 6 Capitol siege. Trump, the guild said, had sustained "a reckless campaign of misinformation aimed at discrediting and ultimately threatening the safety of journalists, many of whom are SAG-AFTRA members".
Trump's case was to be weighed by a disciplinary committee. In his letter, the former president said he had no interest in such a hearing. "Who cares?" he wrote.
"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!" wrote Trump.
"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 continued.
