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Trump names Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Jon Voight as ambassadors to ‘troubled’ Hollywood
NY Post ^ | 1/16/25 | Natalie O'Neill

Posted on 01/17/2025 5:47:31 AM PST by Libloather

No, this is not the cast 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 help boost business in “troubled” Tinseltown.

“[They’ll be] Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” the 78-year-old Trump wrote on Truth 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 stars’ actual duties weren’t immediately clear, but Trump said the trio would be his “eyes and ears” in the movie industry, “and I will get done what they suggest.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: california; gibson; hollywood; jonvoight; melgibson; stallone; sylvesterstallone; tinseltown; voight
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So, he's got friends.
1 posted on 01/17/2025 5:47:31 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather
For Jon Voight, it's a step down from the coal mines "somewhere in New Jersey".



2 posted on 01/17/2025 5:51:39 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Libloather
Would have liked to have seen James Woods in that line-up!

This should be categorized as a "hardship post." Will they be eligible for extra pay?

Regards,

3 posted on 01/17/2025 5:51:47 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Libloather

I don’t know why Gibson, when discussing biden and Trump on laura ingraham’s show a few days ago he said he didn’t care for either one.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 5:55:08 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: alexander_busek

Agreed, I’d rather see Woods over gibson.....of course Gibson probably has more sway out there.

Woods is an outspoken conservative and there’s no telling what that has cost him in acting jobs over the years.


5 posted on 01/17/2025 5:58:00 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Larry Lucido; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
[singing] everybody's talkin' at me, I can't hear a word they're sayin', I'm just drivin' 'round in Jon Voight's car...

6 posted on 01/17/2025 6:01:07 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: V_TWIN

Either one meaning what? Repub and lib?


7 posted on 01/17/2025 6:01:20 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

Gibson said he didn’t care for biden OR Trump


8 posted on 01/17/2025 6:02:58 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Libloather

I would have thought Schwarzenegger would also be invited to join this group...


9 posted on 01/17/2025 6:23:08 AM PST by Deaf and Discerning (als)
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To: V_TWIN

Gibson said he didn’t care for biden OR Trump


It is not always about personalities. Sometimes the agreement is on the mission.

What would you think the mission is to these three?


10 posted on 01/17/2025 6:34:41 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“What would you think the mission is to these three?”

Probably to convince the left wing nuts in hollyweird that Trump and his administration arn’t actually hitler and a threat to democracy.....at least in part anyway.

And good luck to them with that cuz if that’s the mission they have their work cut out for ‘em.


11 posted on 01/17/2025 6:53:22 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Libloather

I thought this was Babylon Bee!!


12 posted on 01/17/2025 6:59:45 AM PST by goodnesswins (Don’t be REALITY PHOBIC!)
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To: Libloather

Trump is a genius. Probably at the level of Einstein or nearly so. Right now, Hollywood has been severely damaged by the mismanagement of the politicians they have incubated and supported. This is when they go from actors in movies straight into reality and reality is going to scare them. It’s almost as if God was working on it.


13 posted on 01/17/2025 7:11:00 AM PST by webheart (S)
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To: alexander_busek

I think Woods likes to be TOTALLY independent.


14 posted on 01/17/2025 7:13:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Libloather

Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries.

China calls many shots there or they never get to show the them in China.


15 posted on 01/17/2025 7:14:36 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Vaduz

It seems like all the movies are now made somewhere other than California. Ga, BC, Ontario, NC, eastern Europe.


16 posted on 01/17/2025 7:25:35 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

Cost is to high to do them here in California like everything else is.


17 posted on 01/17/2025 7:36:02 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: T.B. Yoits

Trump is a winner, CA is a loser.


18 posted on 01/17/2025 7:42:37 AM PST by cnsmom
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I don't want to be ugly but I am. Why would you send anyone to pull them out of their holes they dug for themselves?

We've spent more than four years of sweat to bring that evil place to bankruptcy.

It seems to me that we finally got them to a place where they were going broke from their woke and in rides the calvary.

I won't lie. This pisses me off.
19 posted on 01/17/2025 8:21:31 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: Libloather

Trump could have added Dennis Quaid.


20 posted on 01/17/2025 8:45:49 AM PST by chrisinoc
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