Screen Actors Guild (SAG) trouble, that is.
abcnews.go.com/…
The short version:
The Screen Actors Guild said Tuesday that the SAG-AFTRA board voted “overwhelmingly” that there is probable cause that Trump violated its guidelines for membership. The charges, the guild said, are for Trump's role in 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.”
Trump has been a member of the SAG since 1989. If expelled — and the odds are pretty good there — he looses his card. Consequences being:
Losing SAG membership doesn't disqualify anyone from performing. But most major productions abide by union contracts and hire only union actors.
Granted this won’t keep him out of the media completely. He can give interviews up the wazoo, though I have difficulty seeing any major networks wanting to do so, and all the noise he’s making of founding some new network to feed his need for an audience can’t be completely ignored.
OTOH, Trump doesn’t have much appeal outside of the OANN/Fox News ecosystem, and that audience doesn’t look like its broadening any.
This bears watching all the same.