Mel Gibson Says He Was ‘Just as Surprised’ As Everyone Else By Trump’s Post Naming Him a ‘Special Ambassador’
Alex GriffingJan 16th, 2025, 5:42 pm
Actor Mel Gibson said on Thursday that he “was just as surprised” as everyone else by President-elect Donald Trump naming and two other pro-MAGA actors “Special Ambassadors” to Hollywood.
“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 his Truth Social platform earlier in the day.
“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 added.
Gibson told Variety how he found out about Trump’s “hiring” him. “I got the tweet at the same time as all of you and was just as surprised. Nevertheless, I heed the call. My duty as a citizen is to give any help and insight I can.Any chance the position comes with an Ambassador’s residence?” Gibson said in a statement.
Trump famously has surprised people in the past with his posts on Twitter. During his first term, Trump fired multiple top officials by tweet, including his first chief of staff Reince Priebus, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Gibson lost his home in the devastating Los Angeles area fires in recent days and suggested on Fox News the fires may have been “commissioned.” Along with Voight and other actors like James Woods, Gibson has long been one of Hollywood’s most well-known conservatives and devout Christians.
Gibson raised eyebrows last week with an appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast in which he claimed alternative medicines had cured his friends of stage-4 cancer.
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