Sylvester Stallone is the newest Hollywood determine to again President-elect Donald Trump, calling the 2024 election victor the “second George Washington” at an awards gala at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Thursday evening.
Stallone sang the praises of the incoming president at the America First Coverage Institute Gala held in Palm Seaside, evaluating him to the titular character in his Oscar-winning movie Rocky and Jesus Christ earlier than Trump took to the stage. In publicly popping out as a supporter of Trump, the actor joined a quick however rising record of movie star supporters of the incoming president that features Kelsey Grammer, Drea de Matteo and Jack Paul, amongst others. A majority of Hollywood gamers backed the truncated marketing campaign of his rival, Democrat Kamala Harris. Her marketing campaign relied on a number of stars as endorsers and leisure at rallies and enlisted them within the vp’s floor recreation in battleground states.
“We’re in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone advised the group at Mar-a-Lago. “I love mythology. And this individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe.”
Stallone then in contrast Trump to one of many founding fathers of america, drawing a comparability between the intentions and outcomes of the 2 males who’ve led the nation and indicated that each have been essential to the world as we all know it.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world,” the 78-year-old actor mentioned. ”As a result of with out him, you possibly can think about what the world would appear like. Guess what? We acquired the second George Washington.”
Stallone’s Trump-Jesus comparability got here earlier as he evoked the primary few seconds of Rocky, which opens with a shot of a portrait of the Son of God, as he’s named within the New Testomony, that pans over to the title character being pummeled with blows in a boxing ring as he vehemently fights again.
“At that moment, he was a chosen person and that’s how I began the journey — something was gonna happen, this man was gonna go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump,” the star of the Paramount+ crime sequence Tulsa King mentioned.
Trump quickly arrived onstage, and he and the motion star shared an prolonged handshake.
The America First Coverage Institute Gala is an annual occasion that, since 2021 when the far-right think-tank was based, has raised funds to assist Trump’s political agenda. The nonprofit has been described because the president-elect’s “White House in waiting” and has compiled an agenda akin to the Heritage Institute’s controversial Challenge 2025, which proposes coverage strikes together with imposing tariffs on imports, lowering company taxes, defending non secular freedom and reversing local weather change initiatives.
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