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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
(46,053 posts)orleans
(37,634 posts)(1 for each "actor" )
keep_left
(3,253 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
(12,264 posts)SAG AFTRA watch out ... at the top of their agenda is union busting. GRRRRR ... fuck!
thebigidea
(13,599 posts)Klarkashton
(5,598 posts)Trump is running out of crazy shit to spam the public with.
underpants
(198,112 posts)Most of Hollywood wants nothing to do with him.
He seems to understand the movie industry like he understood the casino industry.
HAB911
(10,792 posts)thebigidea
(13,599 posts)keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 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
(13,599 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 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
(6,868 posts)I never could watch scary movies. Damn, now my life is one.
DBoon
(25,335 posts)So any opposition to Trump will be reported immediately for purposes of retribution
thebigidea
(13,599 posts)orleans
(37,634 posts)the three muska-hasbeens
DBoon
(25,335 posts)montanacowboy
(6,751 posts)the three stooges?
Basso8vb
(1,230 posts)Cosmocat
(15,539 posts)nm
moondust
(21,400 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
(9,592 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
(8,112 posts)What happened? Did Trumps sharpie redraw the border?
Retrograde
(11,499 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
(3,253 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
(10,833 posts)orleans
(37,634 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
(77,795 posts)thebigidea
(13,599 posts)Traildogbob
(13,350 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
(32,354 posts)lapfog_1
(32,104 posts)I vote for Mel.
BTW, two of the 3 are definitely certifiable...
Paladin
(32,354 posts)I wouldn't ever want to hurt the feelings of mortal enemies. That wouldn't be nice of me.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,320 posts)has lost much business over the last four years to foreign countries. What an asshole
Dave Bowman
(7,650 posts)GoCubsGo
(35,117 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
(32,354 posts)Cha
(321,868 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
(7,140 posts)a Triumph of the Will type documentary. Where's our Leni Riefenstahl?
LeftInTX
(35,336 posts)WFT. It's on their Wikipedia page....

madinmaryland
(65,849 posts)LeftInTX
(35,336 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(185,015 posts)JoseBalow
(10,033 posts)JI7
(93,908 posts)He made some comment about how he didn't know health care policies were so complicated.