President-elect tasks the trio with making “very troubled” film industry “BIGGER, BETTER AND STRONGER…”
As he continues to fill out his administration, Donald Trump has appointed Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to serve as “Special Ambassadors” to a “great but very troubled place,” Hollywood, California.
In a statement to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump announced that the trio of longtime supporters and veteran actors/filmmakers 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,” Trump added. “It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”
All three celebrities have buddied up to Trump in recent years. Voight has been a longtime supporter, calling the president-elect “the greatest president since Lincoln” and became the first recipient of the National Medal of the Arts during Trump’s first administration — two years after he took office.
Stallone turned down Trump’s offer to run the National Endowment for the Arts in 2016, but introduced him at a post-election Mar-a-Largo event last year by calling him the “second George Washington.” Gibson, once blacklisted from Hollywood over antisemitic and racist rants, voiced his support of Trump last year while saying Kamala Harris has “got the IQ of a fence post.”
Stallone, 78, currently stars in Tulsa King and his The Family Stallone reality show on Paramount+, and co-wrote the upcoming David Ayer-directed Jason Statham movie A Working Man. Voight, 86, recently appeared in the Reagan biopic starring Dennis Quaid, as well as the mega-flop Megalopolis, for which Francis Ford Coppola intentionally cast “canceled” actors. Gibson, 69, directed Mark Wahlberg in the upcoming trapped-on-a-plane action/thriller Flight Risk, and is working on digitally de-aging Jim Caviezel for a The Passion of the Christ sequel.
Gibson also recently lost his Malibu home in the LA wildfires. Somehow we doubt he’ll be convincing Trump to depoliticize the disaster relief efforts while he’s working to, we assume, return Hollywood to the domineering studio control and exploitative practices of the “golden age.” You know, MHGA.