President-elect names actors ‘special ambassadors’ to help bring back business lost to ‘foreign countries’
Donald Trump is planning to make Hollywood “stronger than ever” with a little help from Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight.
“It is my honour to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” Trump, 78, wrote on Truth Social.
“They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”
He also likened Trump to Jesus and his boxer character Rocky, telling the crowd his screen creation was “a chosen person … Something was going to happen. This man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like president Trump.”
He celebrated Trump as a commander-in-chief akin to the first president, whose leadership altered the course of U.S. history.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world. Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington.”
Stallone’s comments echoed praise from Voigt, who has been one of Trump’s most vocal supporters over the years, calling him “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.
“I’m old enough to have touched some years of the Golden Age of Hollywood and I’ve seen its slow deterioration since,” he said. “Today, we are in pretty bad shape. Very few films are made here now, but we are fortunate to have an incoming president who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory and with his help I feel we can get it done.”
Gibson, 69, threw his support behind the former president in last year’s election by hitting out at his Democratic rival Kamala Harris.
“I’m gonna guess Trump. Is that a bad guess?” the cameraman replied, as he trailed the Oscar winner.
“I think that’s a pretty good guess,” Gibson said. “I know what it’ll be like if we let her in. And that ain’t good. Miserable track record. No policies to speak of. She’s got the IQ of a fence post.”
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“I got the tweet at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised. Nevertheless, I heed the call. My duty as a citizen is to give any help and insight I can. Any chance the position comes with an ambassador’s residence?” he quipped.
Amazon (The Boys, Reacher), Paramount (Star Trek: Discovery) and Netflix (The Umbrella Academy) utilize studios in Toronto and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro shoots his feature films in the city.