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Donald Trump has tapped three of his longstanding celebrity supporters – Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone – to purportedly make Hollywood “stronger than ever before” as “special ambassadors” to the movie capital.

The president-elect announced the new appointments, whose duties remain unclear, on Truth Social on Thursday, four days before his inauguration. “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” he wrote.

“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! These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!”

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I thought that Stallone was a pretty decent guy, did I miss anything?

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, everything about Stallone

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

I wish mell would have stayed home.

[–] oyo@lemm.ee 5 points 14 hours ago

Voight is still alive? Huh.

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago

Mel Gibson is mostly known these days for being super racist, which is why this announcement is not surprising at all.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Trump has the Midas touch, for pointing out shitty people.

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

The Mierdas touch, as some day

[–] Zier@fedia.io 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's off to a great start pretending to be a 'president' again. He has no idea what a President does or how to manage an entire country. America voted for an idiot 2 times. The con man will do nothing to make america 'great'.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Technically he still didn't win a majority of the vote a single time.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago

They didn't vote for him the first time, and they didn't vote the second time.

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 25 points 1 day ago

Gibson, who recently lost his home in the Los Angeles wildfires, told Variety that he had learned of his new position through Trump’s social media. “I got the tweet at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised.

LOL what?! So Gibson didn't even know this was going to be a thing?

[–] kromem@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yay, McCarthyism is coming back too!

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

When exactly did it leave? Communist just got replaced with something else

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It got replaced with wokeism

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Isn't it kinda wild that we went from "wake up sheeple" being a pretty universal meme used across the political spectrum, to today where "being woke" which basically grew out of that meme is essentially considered a political ideology?

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m just pointing out what the Right hate nowadays or at least what they call it.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net -1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

It wasn’t sarcastic. I am just stating what they call the thing they hate as.

I'm expecting him to announce they're bringing Seagal back from Russia.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago

Holy shit... this isn't an Onion article?

[–] FiremanEdsRevenge@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sounds to me like they want to make propaganda films.

[–] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

It sounds to me like the dying gasp of a cocaine-fueled homerotic roadtrip in California somewhere.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I think he wanted Goebbels too

[–] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Yep that will definitely bring down the price of eggs.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I don't think the biggest problem of Hollywood is the lack of Republican meddling.

And it shows that only Hollywoods has-beens are rooting for Donald.

[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Trump is consistent if nothing else. He really loves stupid and crazy people.

[–] goodthanks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stupid? Would a stupid man star in Baby Geniuses 2? I'll just leave this here. youtube.com/watch?v=sT3coep3EW0

[–] _wizard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

There was a moment they normalized the ass hat. I really think Vic intentionally (or unknowingly) it.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

They make him look good and normal.

Well. Not exactly.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago

.... is this just for optics or some sort of play at media control?

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew Gibson was shitty but these two are news to me

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

Voight has been famously shitty for a long time. I'm surprised James Woods wasn't on this list.

I hope Gibson ends up in a rack, Voight in a K car, and Stallone in an F1 car he can't drive.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I saw this earlier and thought it was satire. What in the fuck!?

[–] ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

yeesh, this doom hole keeps getting deeper