Trump picks three movie legends to be his 'eyes and ears' in Hollywood

They alone have ten Oscar nominations and three statuettes. Longtime supporters of Donald Trump, Sylvester Stallone, Jon Voight and Mel Gibson were dubbed by the new president who appointed them this Thursday “special ambassadors” on the Hollywood side. An obviously honorary and deliberately provocative position in a largely pro-democratic film industry that the Republican billionaire describes as“great place but very troubled”.

“Make Hollywood Great Again”

Ils “will serve as my special emissaries with the goal of making Hollywood — which has lost a lot in four years to foreign countries — a BIGGER, BETTER AND STRONGER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN a place! “he insists in a message posted on his social network Truth Social (new window). “These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will do as they suggest. It will be, like the United States of America, the golden age of Hollywood once again!”concludes the man who, on January 20, will become the first president in the history of the country to have been criminally convicted.

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Popular actors of Hollywood cinema, these three stars have never hidden their special bond with Donald Trump which reflects it well on them. Sylvester Stallone, 78 years old and also a New Yorker, inaugurated a gala for the president-elect in mid-November in his stronghold of Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “We are in the presence of a mythical character”had notably declared the interpreter of Rocky and Rambo.

Angelina Jolie's father, Jon Voight, 86, was awarded the National Medal of Arts during Donald Trump's first term. As for the actor and director Mel Gibson, at 69 years old he has been an unapologetic ultra-conservative for decades. Just last week, he assured in the podcast of the controversial Joe Rogan that anti-parasitic drugs could cure cancer.