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orleans

(35,835 posts)
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:16 PM Jan 16

"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 Trump’s “eyes and ears.”

“I will get done what they suggest,” he wrote.

(more)

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/16/congress/trump-special-envoys-hollywood-00198727



is he planning his new "reality" show
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"Trump nominates special envoys to... Hollywood 🎬 Three actors will be ambassadors "to a great but very troubled place, H (Original Post) orleans Jan 16 OP
Shouldn't this be brought to the attention of the department of government efficiency? Walleye Jan 16 #1
!!! LOL!!! orleans Jan 16 #2
Yeah, as Janet Yellen said last night on the Colbert show... keep_left Jan 16 #35
WTF??????? We do NOT need their "help" out here ... LSparkle Jan 16 #3
as if SAG/AFTRA doesn't hold the cards there. thebigidea Jan 16 #24
3 stooges. Klarkashton Jan 16 #4
Not hobknobbing with celebrities really bothers Trump underpants Jan 16 #5
McCarthyism blacklists in 3...2... HAB911 Jan 16 #6
you would need way bigger names than these used condoms thebigidea Jan 16 #23
Expecting another Hollywood Blacklist? keithbvadu2 Jan 16 #7
This sounds an awful lot like the Red Scare Blue_Tires Jan 16 #8
these three are not going to be doing paperwork or much of anything but shooting their mouths off on twitter thebigidea Jan 16 #22
Possibly... But with King Donnie we ALWAYS need Blue_Tires Jan 16 #28
It just gets weirder and weirder and it hasn't really started yet. Biophilic Jan 16 #9
the stars will serve as Trump's "eyes and ears." DBoon Jan 16 #10
it's not like they leave their little rich boy hidey holes, so what are they gonna see? thebigidea Jan 16 #21
when you said the "stars" you were being sarcastic, right? orleans Jan 16 #42
No, I was quoting the OP you posted word-for-word DBoon Jan 16 #46
You have got to be kidding montanacowboy Jan 16 #11
Fuck MAGA Basso8vb Jan 16 #12
We are ... Idiocracy! Cosmocat Jan 16 #13
Somebody got a grudge? moondust Jan 16 #14
May be to find & destroy 'the tapes' people kept asking Mark Burnett to make public re TCF's racist remarks Attilatheblond Jan 16 #15
Ambassadors to one of the United States? Raven123 Jan 16 #16
He doesn't consider us part of the US Retrograde Jan 16 #17
It's all part of the dehumanization and "other-izing"... keep_left Jan 16 #39
Quite a snub to James Wood..LOL. n/t SheilaAnn Jan 16 #18
james: "what about me? i thought my house burned down! WAHHHHH" orleans Jan 16 #43
Hah! Their own fuhrer agrees that they are inferior in talent. - SORBO, BAIO, WOODS UTUSN Jan 16 #19
maybe they can give us tips on alienating your family or shooting steroids thebigidea Jan 16 #20
Fuck all three Traildogbob Jan 16 #25
Combined IQ of 14...... (nt) Paladin Jan 16 #26
so which one has an IQ of 4? lapfog_1 Jan 16 #29
Hey, I'm a life-long Democrat. Paladin Jan 16 #32
He just can't stop with needling. SammyWinstonJack Jan 16 #27
Lol, three pathetic has-been. Dave Bowman Jan 16 #30
Look! Squirrel! GoCubsGo Jan 16 #31
Well said, GCG. My compliments. (nt) Paladin Jan 16 #44
I Want This to Blow BACK IN Cha Jan 16 #33
He must want Hollywood to produce choie Jan 16 #34
Ambassador of Booze and Racism, Ambassador of Steroids, Ambassador of Jilted Fathers LeftInTX Jan 16 #36
What about Kevin Sorbo and Scott Baio?? madinmaryland Jan 16 #37
Does this mean Hollywood will now be it's own country? Has it been expelled from the US? LeftInTX Jan 16 #38
Who in Hollywood is going to care about these idiots and has-beens? LetMyPeopleVote Jan 16 #40
Part of the Ministry of Propaganda JoseBalow Jan 16 #41
He is bored and has no interest in actual policy matters to address real issues JI7 Jan 16 #45
"Let's find the most racist, misogynist washed up old assfucks we can find and inflict them on the libs lol." LetMyPeopleVote Jan 16 #47

keep_left

(2,812 posts)
35. Yeah, as Janet Yellen said last night on the Colbert show...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:29 PM
Jan 16
"...If they're looking to save money for American taxpayers, setting up a duplicative agency doesn't seem like a good first step."

(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

(11,993 posts)
3. WTF??????? We do NOT need their "help" out here ...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:19 PM
Jan 16

SAG AFTRA watch out ... at the top of their agenda is union busting. GRRRRR ... fuck!

underpants

(189,659 posts)
5. Not hobknobbing with celebrities really bothers Trump
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:22 PM
Jan 16

Most of “Hollywood” wants nothing to do with him.

He seems to understand the movie industry like he understood the casino industry.

 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
8. This sounds an awful lot like the Red Scare
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:26 PM
Jan 16

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

(13,489 posts)
22. these three are not going to be doing paperwork or much of anything but shooting their mouths off on twitter
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:46 PM
Jan 16
 

Blue_Tires

(57,596 posts)
28. Possibly... But with King Donnie we ALWAYS need
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jan 16

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

(5,442 posts)
9. It just gets weirder and weirder and it hasn't really started yet.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:26 PM
Jan 16

I never could watch scary movies. Damn, now my life is one.

DBoon

(23,622 posts)
10. the stars will serve as Trump's "eyes and ears."
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:28 PM
Jan 16

So any opposition to Trump will be reported immediately for purposes of retribution

thebigidea

(13,489 posts)
21. it's not like they leave their little rich boy hidey holes, so what are they gonna see?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:46 PM
Jan 16

moondust

(20,833 posts)
14. Somebody got a grudge?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jan 16

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

(5,562 posts)
15. May be to find & destroy 'the tapes' people kept asking Mark Burnett to make public re TCF's racist remarks
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:31 PM
Jan 16

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

(6,515 posts)
16. Ambassadors to one of the United States?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:35 PM
Jan 16

What happened? Did Trump’s sharpie redraw the border?

Retrograde

(11,014 posts)
17. He doesn't consider us part of the US
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:35 PM
Jan 16

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

(2,812 posts)
39. It's all part of the dehumanization and "other-izing"...
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:57 PM
Jan 16

...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.

orleans

(35,835 posts)
43. james: "what about me? i thought my house burned down! WAHHHHH"
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 06:52 PM
Jan 16

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

Traildogbob

(10,851 posts)
25. Fuck all three
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:50 PM
Jan 16

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.

lapfog_1

(30,737 posts)
29. so which one has an IQ of 4?
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:57 PM
Jan 16

I vote for Mel.

BTW, two of the 3 are definitely certifiable...

Paladin

(29,952 posts)
32. Hey, I'm a life-long Democrat.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:03 PM
Jan 16

I wouldn't ever want to hurt the feelings of mortal enemies. That wouldn't be nice of me.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,261 posts)
27. He just can't stop with needling.
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 04:53 PM
Jan 16

has lost much business over the last four years to foreign countries. What an asshole

GoCubsGo

(33,676 posts)
31. Look! Squirrel!
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:01 PM
Jan 16

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.

Cha

(309,197 posts)
33. I Want This to Blow BACK IN
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:07 PM
Jan 16

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

(5,293 posts)
34. He must want Hollywood to produce
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:23 PM
Jan 16

a Triumph of the Will type documentary. Where's our Leni Riefenstahl?

LeftInTX

(32,761 posts)
36. Ambassador of Booze and Racism, Ambassador of Steroids, Ambassador of Jilted Fathers
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 05:36 PM
Jan 16

WFT. It's on their Wikipedia page....

JI7

(91,653 posts)
45. He is bored and has no interest in actual policy matters to address real issues
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 07:43 PM
Jan 16

He made some comment about how he didn't know health care policies were so complicated.



LetMyPeopleVote

(160,817 posts)
47. "Let's find the most racist, misogynist washed up old assfucks we can find and inflict them on the libs lol."
Thu Jan 16, 2025, 08:25 PM
Jan 16
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