Donald Trump is appointing three washed-up actors to serve as “special ambassadors” to Hollywood, including the notoriously racist and antisemitic Mel Gibson.
“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 in a Thursday post on Truth Social. “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!”
Choosing Gibson to serve as whatever this is … is certainly a choice.
In 2004, Gibson’s movie “The Passion of the Christ” was panned as antisemitic for depicting Jews as responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion.
Then in 2006, Gibson went on an antisemitic tirade during a drunk driving arrest in Los Angeles.
According to a police report, “Gibson blurted out a barrage of anti-semitic remarks about ‘fucking Jews’. Gibson yelled out: ‘The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.’ Gibson then asked: ‘Are you a Jew?'”
Gibson later apologized, saying, “I am not an anti-Semite. I am not a bigot. Hatred of any kind goes against my faith.”
But as the saying goes: in vino veritas.
Crazycat