President-elect Donald Trump has named actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as his “special ambassadors” in Hollywood, calling Hollywood a “great but very troubled place.”
“They will serve as my special envoys to bring back Hollywood, which has lost so much business to foreign countries over the past four years – bigger, better and stronger than ever!” Trump said on “Truth Social” on Thursday wrote. “These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will follow their advice,” he added. “Just like the United States of America, this will once again be the Golden Age of Hollywood!”
These positions are not official government positions, and Hollywood is part of the United States, so it’s unclear what the three will do as “special ambassadors.”
President-elect Donald Trump greets actor Sylvester Stallone at the America First Institute Gala. He is one of three movie stars named Trump’s envoys to Hollywood (Getty Images)
At an event at Mar-a-Lago last month, Gibson called the Biden administration “four years of thinly veiled Marxism.” He added that the new Trump administration would bring a “four-year grace period.”
“We’re going to see how much this administration can take back from the Philistines,” Gibson reportedly said. The Daily Beast.
In November last year, when Stallone introduced Trump at the “America First Policy Gala” held at Mar-a-Lago, he called Trump “the second George Washington.”
Stallone compared his character Rocky to Trump, saying: “This guy is going to undergo a transformation and change his life, just like President Trump.” USA Today.
Jon Voight and Mel Gibson will become Hollywood’s other two “special ambassadors” (Getty)
At an event at Mar-a-Lago last month, Gibson called the Biden administration “four years of thinly veiled Marxism” (Getty)
“We’re dealing with a truly mythical figure… There’s no one in the world who could accomplish what he accomplished, so I’m in awe,” he said more than a week after Trump won the election.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea he would change the world,” Stallone said at the Nov. 14 event. “Because you can imagine what the world would be like without him. Guess what, we got a second George Washington.
Voight has supported many Republican politicians over the past few years, including Trump. After Trump took office enter hollywood In 2016, after comments about grabbing women’s genitals surfaced, Voight defended Trump, saying he didn’t know “too many men who haven’t expressed some similar sexual language to women.”
In 2017, the Oscar-winning actor added that he didn’t know if “God would be able to reverse all the negative lies being leveled against Mr. Trump, and his only desire is to make America great again.”
Two years later, in 2019, Voight called Trump “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.”
Voight also backed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, calling it a “battle between justice and Satan.”
