Trump Names Mel Gibson, Jon Voight, and Sylvester Stallone as His ‘Special Ambassadors’ to Fix ‘Troubled’ Hollywood

Together, they can bring Hollywood back to a "golden age," the incoming president posted on Truth Social.

Incoming president Donald Trump wants to Make Hollywood Great Again and return it to another “Golden Age.”

The POTUS-elect has appointed Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone as “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood. Their job description will be to bring jobs back to what he says is a “great but very troubled place,” after seeing business leave to “Foreign Countries” over the past four years.

“It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! 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!”

Trump isn’t wrong that Hollywood has seen productions heading overseas more and more in recent years as the cost of doing business here has increased. California Governor Gavin Newsom (whom Trump recently labeled “Newscum” over his response to the Los Angeles wildfires) has proposed additional tax incentives, up to $750 million, to lure production back to his home state. IndieWire has reported on how other states have gotten creative beyond just tax breaks.

It’s unclear what Voight, Gibson, and Stallone will be asked specifically to do, but all three actors have been vocal advocates of Trump. Stallone called Trump the “second George Washington” at an event at Mar-a-Lago in November; Gibson has endorsed Trump and attacked the intelligence of his election opponent Kamala Harris; and Voight shared his love of Trump in a Variety cover story last July.

Gibson has a new film in theaters soon: “Flight Risk” starring Mark Wahlberg. It marks his first work as a director since 2016. Voight just starred in Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” and Stallone stars in the Paramount+ series “Tulsa King” and in a new film opening this weekend called “Alarum.”

Trump will be re-inaugurated into office on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.