Trump names Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as Hollywood ‘special ambassadors’
Donald Trump has tapped three of his longstanding celebrity supporters – Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone – to purportedly make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” as “special ambassadors” to the movie capital.
The president-elect announced the new appointments, whose duties remain unclear, on Truth Social on Thursday, four days before his inauguration. “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” he wrote.
“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!”
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He's off to a great start pretending to be a 'president' again. He has no idea what a President does or how to manage an entire country. America voted for an idiot 2 times. The con man will do nothing to make america 'great'.
Technically he still didn't win a majority of the vote a single time.
They didn't vote for him the first time, and they didn't vote the second time.
Sounds to me like they want to make propaganda films.
I think he wanted Goebbels too
It sounds to me like the dying gasp of a cocaine-fueled homerotic roadtrip in California somewhere.
LOL what?! So Gibson didn't even know this was going to be a thing?
Trump is consistent if nothing else. He really loves stupid and crazy people.
They make him look good and normal.
Well. Not exactly.
There was a moment they normalized the ass hat. I really think Vic intentionally (or unknowingly) it.
Mel Gibson is mostly known these days for being super racist, which is why this announcement is not surprising at all.
I'm expecting him to announce they're bringing Seagal back from Russia.
Yep that will definitely bring down the price of eggs.
Oh yay, McCarthyism is coming back too!
When exactly did it leave? Communist just got replaced with something else
It got replaced with wokeism
I’m just pointing out what the Right hate nowadays or at least what they call it.
It wasn’t sarcastic. I am just stating what they call the thing they hate as.
Isn't it kinda wild that we went from "wake up sheeple" being a pretty universal meme used across the political spectrum, to today where "being woke" which basically grew out of that meme is essentially considered a political ideology?
Trump has the Midas touch, for pointing out shitty people.
The Mierdas touch, as some day
He really does, I was 0/2 and then saw Stallone and thought "oh shit, I missed something".
I don't think the biggest problem of Hollywood is the lack of Republican meddling.
And it shows that only Hollywoods has-beens are rooting for Donald.
I thought that Stallone was a pretty decent guy, did I miss anything?
Yeah, everything about Stallone
I'm out of the loop on pretty much everything to do with celebrities. Was there something big?
He loves Trump.... Whether that is "big" or not depends on you, i guess.
Everything...? That is not helpful
He called Trump "the second George Washington", otherwise spent years "staying out of politics" but also making sure to pretend he isn't Republican by saying "people think I'm Republican because of Rocky and Rambo."
Surprise. Was Republican.
You get to decide if supporting Trump is a deal breaker. It sure should be. (Unless you are an enemy of the USA or a Billionaire)
Source: Googled it just now. Feel free to add or correct.
I knew Gibson was shitty but these two are news to me
Voight has been famously shitty for a long time. I'm surprised James Woods wasn't on this list.
I wish mell would have stayed home.
.... is this just for optics or some sort of play at media control?
Cant wait for the US government to subsidize the production of The Expendables 2025 starring Donald Trump and a band of old fuckers nobody cares about anymore saving an election from being stolen by some racist charicature.
I hope Gibson ends up in a rack, Voight in a K car, and Stallone in an F1 car he can't drive.
Voight is still alive? Huh.
I saw this earlier and thought it was satire. What in the fuck!?
NO! Not the three most talented and in demand actors in the world! These guys just ooze charisma, audiences will be lining up to agree with the important and valid opinions illustrated in their well produced and even WELLER written films!!! The kids are gonna be doing flossing to this now!
yeesh, this doom hole keeps getting deeper
Huh, mcCarthyism 2.0.
This time, it's even DUMBER
Scraping the bottom of the barrel of has-beens to find someone willing to work for him. I think that says a lot about Donald the Jester (of King Elon).