No, this isn’t the solid of “Expendables 5.”
President-elect Donald Trump tapped three long-time supporters — actors Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight — as “Special Ambassadors to Hollywood” Thursday, ostensibly to assist enhance enterprise in “troubled” Tinseltown.
“[They’ll be] Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” the 78-year-old Trump wrote on Reality 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!”
The celebs’ precise duties weren’t instantly clear, however Trump stated the trio can be his “eyes and ears” within the film trade, “and I’ll get performed what they recommend.
“It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”
Thursday’s announcement — which comes days earlier than Trump takes workplace because the forty seventh president Monday — is an obvious response to the post-COVID-19 stoop in US field workplace receipts, together with a monetary hit from the 2023 writers and actors strike.
Total US TV and film manufacturing is down 26% from 2021, in line with knowledge from the platform ProdPro.
Stallone, Gibson and Voight are all outspoken Trump followers, in contrast to the vast majority of Hollywood celebrities, who overwhelmingly supported Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election.
In November, Stallone, 78, known as Trump the “second George Washington” whereas introducing him on the America First Coverage Institute Gala.
“We are in the presence of a really mythical character. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe,” the “Rocky” star stated on the time.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world because, without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We’ve got the second George Washington. Congratulations!”
Gibson, 69, additionally backed Trump within the 2024 election whereas bashing Harris as unintelligent.
“I know what it’ll be like if we let her in,” the “Braveheart” star informed TMZ in October. “That ain’t good. A miserable track record, an appalling track record, no policies to speak of, and she’s got the IQ of a fence post.”
In the meantime, “Midnight Cowboy” alum Voight, 86, as soon as known as Trump the “greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.”
It’s unclear if the trio of right-leaning celebrities will attend Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC Monday.