Donald Trump quits Screen Actors Guild after expulsion threat, saying ‘who cares?’
- ‘You have done nothing for me,’ the ex-president says in a letter, as union weighs his removal over his role in the US Capitol attack
- The guild responded with a short statement: ‘Thank you.’
Donald Trump has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild after the union threatened to expel him for his role in the US Capitol attack 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.”
The guild responded with a short statement: “Thank you.”
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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.”