President-elect Donald Trump announced the appointment of actors Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as ambassadors to help make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger.”
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Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood “bigger, better and stronger” and has chosen Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone to star in what he calls his “special ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.”
The president-elect announced on his social media site that the three actors would be his eyes and ears in the film city.
“It will once again be, like the United States of America itself, the golden age of Hollywood,” he wrote on Truth Social.
He added: “They will serve as my special envoys in an effort to bring Hollywood, which has lost a lot of business over the past four years to foreign countries, back BIGGER, BETTER AND STRONGER THAN EVER!”
The future American president stressed that the actors “will be my eyes and my ears, and I will do as they suggest.”
Ambassadors and special envoys are generally chosen to intervene in sensitive areas like the Middle East, not California.
Donald Trump’s decision to choose actors as “ambassadors” underscores his concerns for the 1980s and 1990s, when he was a rising tabloid star in New York and Gibson and Stallone were among the world’s biggest movie stars .
Stallone is a frequent guest at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club and introduced him at a gala in November, shortly after the election.
-“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he would change the world. Without him, we could imagine what the world would be like”Stallone told the crowd. “Guess what? We have the second George Washington. Congratulations!”
As for Mel Gibson, he said in a statement that he had heard the news “at the same time as all of you and he was just as surprised. Nevertheless, I answered the call. My duty as a citizen is to provide whatever help and advice I can.”
Gibson, who lost his home in the Palisades fire, added: “Is there any chance the position comes with an ambassadorial residency?”
“I’m old enough to have seen a few years of Hollywood’s golden age and have watched its slow deterioration ever since. Today we’re in pretty bad shape,” declared Jon Voight. “Very few films are made here now, but we are fortunate to have a new president, who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory, and with his help, I think we can achieve that.”
The decision also reflects Donald Trump’s desire to ignore the most controversial statements of his supporters. Gibson’s reputation has been damaged in Hollywood since 2006, when he launched into an anti-Semitic rant while being arrested for allegedly driving drunk. But he continued to work in mainstream films and directed Mark Wahlberg’s upcoming thriller, Flight Risk.
Jon Voight is a longtime supporter of Donald Trump, whom he called the best president since Abraham Lincoln.
American film and television production has been hampered in recent years by the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2023 Hollywood guild strikes and, last week, the Los Angeles wildfires. According to ProdPro data, overall production in the United States was down 26% compared to 2021.
In the Los Angeles metropolitan area, productions fell by 5.6% compared to 2023, according to FilmLA, the lowest level since 2020.
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