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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Trump nominates special envoys to... Hollywood 🎬 Three actors will be ambassadors "to a great but very troubled place, H
WTF is this shit? and i bet you can guess who those 3 actors are...
Trump nominates special envoys to Hollywood 🎬
Three actors will be ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California, Trump said.
Ali Bianco
01/16/2025, 2:23pm ET
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped three new special ambassadors but not to a foreign nation or policy area.
Actors Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone will serve as Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California, Trump said in a post on Truth Social, with the aim of boosting the American filmmaking capital after it has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries.
In this seemingly unprecedented role, the stars will serve as Trumps eyes and ears.
I will get done what they suggest, he wrote.
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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/16/congress/trump-special-envoys-hollywood-00198727
is he planning his new "reality" show
Walleye
(36,870 posts)orleans
(35,434 posts)(1 for each "actor" )
keep_left
(2,590 posts)(She was actually saying this about Trump's ridiculous "External Revenue Service"--Trump is apparently unaware that tariffs are already collected by US Customs--but the point still stands).
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/yellen-says-trumps-plan-new-revenue-agency-wont-save-money-taxpayers-2025-01-16/
LSparkle
(11,868 posts)SAG AFTRA watch out ... at the top of their agenda is union busting. GRRRRR ... fuck!
thebigidea
(13,413 posts)Klarkashton
(2,420 posts)Trump is running out of crazy shit to spam the public with.
underpants
(187,773 posts)Most of Hollywood wants nothing to do with him.
He seems to understand the movie industry like he understood the casino industry.
HAB911
(9,407 posts)thebigidea
(13,413 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,814 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,315 posts)And these "ambassadors" will be compiling lists of anti-Americans disloyal to the regime.
Except this time instead of rooting out Commies the Congressional hearings will be investigating "wokeness" in Hollywood... And yes, as far as Trumpers are concerned they're both one and the same thing.
thebigidea
(13,413 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,315 posts)to be prepared for the worst case scenario... Because he's no longer tethered to institution, convention, the rule of law, and neither Congress nor the Supreme Court are going to check his enhanced powers.
The only reason why we still have some semblance of a country is because of Donnie's utter incompetence, ignorance, ineptitude, short-sightedness and complete lack of imagination.... But how much longer are we going to rely on that, or hoping that he magically drops dead?
Biophilic
(5,115 posts)I never could watch scary movies. Damn, now my life is one.
DBoon
(23,262 posts)So any opposition to Trump will be reported immediately for purposes of retribution
thebigidea
(13,413 posts)orleans
(35,434 posts)the three muska-hasbeens
DBoon
(23,262 posts)montanacowboy
(6,372 posts)the three stooges?
Basso8vb
(554 posts)Cosmocat
(15,074 posts)nm
moondust
(20,592 posts)Did Hollywood deny him a big film starring role or something? (because they recognized him for what he isn't?)
Surely taxpayers will not have to pay anything for this.
Attilatheblond
(4,855 posts)The Clown King made Mark Burnett a Special Envoy to the United Kingdom but that didn't get rid of the evidence so maybe special 'envoys' to LA/Hollywood will clean up some things. Maybe Trump even wants a new reality show about HIS White House. That ego just never gets enough. And staging things would make the propaganda even more potent.
Raven123
(6,188 posts)What happened? Did Trumps sharpie redraw the border?
Retrograde
(10,791 posts)We're the state with Pelosi, Schiff, Harris, Newsom, and a few dozen more in Congress who thwart his desires. And with people who vote against him - although he does come here with his hand out if there's a GOP fundraiser involved.
Anyway, don't those three live in California to begin with? Did Hollywood snub him at some time in the past?
keep_left
(2,590 posts)...that we've seen going back decades. How many of their moronic TV and radio shows regularly tee off on "woke coastal elites", etc. while conspicuously advertising that only they are the real Americans! Even the show titles carry that message. Some of them even plagiarize each other: both Hannity's America and Janet Parshall's America existed at about the same time (I have no idea which came first). John Kasich was on the Fox "News" show From the Heartland, and OANN has Real America (the word "Real" appearing in bright red). I'm probably also forgetting at least a few additional examples.
SheilaAnn
(10,260 posts)orleans
(35,434 posts)TRUMP: okay, you can be part of the envoy
ricky schroder: WHAT ABOUT ME???
trump: fine. you too. and i'll toss chachi in there.
james: who?
scott baio: me!
hasbeen losers. just like trump
UTUSN
(72,921 posts)thebigidea
(13,413 posts)Traildogbob
(10,306 posts)I have refused to watch a damn thing those three are in since 2016 and forever more.
No Tim Allen and Clint Eastwood? No Rosanne Barr?
Oh right, female, not blonde, not hot.
Paladin
(29,100 posts)lapfog_1
(30,297 posts)I vote for Mel.
BTW, two of the 3 are definitely certifiable...
Paladin
(29,100 posts)I wouldn't ever want to hurt the feelings of mortal enemies. That wouldn't be nice of me.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,171 posts)has lost much business over the last four years to foreign countries. What an asshole
Dave Bowman
(4,082 posts)GoCubsGo
(33,269 posts)More distraction from the other shit that's going on, as well as the fact that Trump's cheese has not only slid off his cracker, it dropped to the floor,and he licked it up.
Paladin
(29,100 posts)Cha
(306,199 posts)Mump's & the 3 Traitors; to the USA's Fucking Colective FACE
Get your MF noses Out of our Democracy Loving HOLLYWOD! MF Rat POS.
Can you imagine how the Best of Holly wood feels about his?!
choie
(4,803 posts)a Triumph of the Will type documentary. Where's our Leni Riefenstahl?
LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)WFT. It's on their Wikipedia page....
madinmaryland
(65,237 posts)LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(156,451 posts)JoseBalow
(5,943 posts)JI7
(91,057 posts)He made some comment about how he didn't know health care policies were so complicated.