By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-17 17:53:19 | Updated at 2025-01-17 22:10:46
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CV NEWS FEED // President-elect Donald Trump announced Jan. 16 that Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, and Jon Voight will be special ambassadors to the “great but very troubled” Hollywood.
In a Jan. 16 post on Truth Social, Trump said the ambassadors’ task is “bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!”
“Rocky” movie star Stallone previously praised Trump as the “second George Washington” at an awards gala in Mar-a-Largo post-election in November 2024. Gibson expressed support for Trump in October 2024 during an impromptu TMZ interview at an airport. In 2019, Trump awarded Voight, a longtime supporter of the president-elect, with the National Medal of Arts.
Trump stated Jan. 16, “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!”
Longtime movie star Voight told FOX News Digital in a statement that Hollywood today is “in pretty bad shape.”
“I’m old enough to have touched some years of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and I’ve seen its slow deterioration since. Today, we are in pretty bad shape,” Voight said. “Very few films are made here now, but we are fortunate to have an incoming President, who wants to restore Hollywood to its former glory, and with his help, I feel we can get done.”
Gibson, who recently starred as a retired police detective in David Henrie’s ’90s-nostalgic film “Monster Summer,” told FOX News Digital that he learned about his appointment as a “special ambassador” when the rest of the public did.
“I got the tweet at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised,” Gibson said. “Nevertheless, I heed the call. My duty as a citizen is to give any help and insight I can. Any chance the position comes with an Ambassador’s residence?”
Gibson’s home was among the many in Malibu completely destroyed by the Palisades Fire last week. He was away from the residence at the time to appear as a guest on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, where he spoke in part about how hostile Hollywood is to Christianity, and talked as well as about why the Gospels are historically verifiable.
Gibson, director of the 2004 “Passion of the Christ” movie, has been working on a sequel that will focus on the Resurrection of Jesus, though filming likely won’t begin until at least 2026.
