Trump Taps Voight, Gibson, Stallone as Special Ambassadors to 'Bring Back' Hollywood
Donald Trump has named Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone "special ambassadors" to bring Hollywood "back" to its golden age.
The Aluminum Age of Hollywood is upon us. In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Donald Trump announced plans to revive Hollywood â which he believes has fallen into disarray over the past four years because of losing business to âforeign countriesâ â with the appointment of âSpecial Ambassadorsâ Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone.
âThey 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, BACKâBIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE,â Trump wrote. âThese 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!â
Voight, who is 86 years old, received a National Medal of the Arts from Trump in 2019. The actor has vocally endorsed the president-elect for years, even going so far as to call him âthe greatest president since Abraham Lincolnâ and support him in claiming that Joe Biden had committed electoral fraud. â[This is] our greatest fight since the Civil War â the battle of righteousness versus Satan, because these leftists are evil, corrupt, and they want to tear down this nation,â he said in 2020. What are the chances heâs seen A24âs dystopian thriller Civil War?
It took a bit longer for Gibson, 69, and Stallone, 78, to come around on Trump. In 2016, Gibson claimed that he didnât vote for him. Five years later, he went viral for saluting Trump at UFC 264 in Las Vegas. This past October, Gibson not only endorsed Trump, but claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris has âthe IQ of a fence post.â Itâs convenient that his first film as a director since 2016 is scheduled to open in theaters next week.
Stallone, meanwhile, has spoken about Trump in terms similar to Voight. During a speech at Mar-a-Lago in November, the actor referred to Trump as the âsecond George Washington.â Then he took it a step further and compared him Rocky Balboa.
Trumpâs gripes with Hollywood probably arenât unrelated to how a new age of directors has portrayed him in film. Last year, his lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to the producers of The Apprentice, Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasiâs brutal biopic starring Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as infamous Trump lawyer Roy Cohn.
âA FAKE and CLASSLESS Movie written about me, called, The Apprentice (Do they even have the right to use that name without approval?), will hopefully âbomb,ââ Trump wrote on Truth Social in October. âItâs a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet jobâŚâ Both Stan and Strong were nominated for Golden Globe awards for their performances with additional nods at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Any Golden Age returning to Hollywood is in fine hands â just not Voight, Gibson, Stallone, or Trumpâs hands.