Sylvester Stallone heaped praises on President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and said no other person could pull off what Trump did, almost like a mythical character, like Rocky Balboa, like George Washington. “I am in awe. This individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody could’ve pulled off what he pulled off,” the 78-year-old actor said at the America First Policy conference last night.
Describing the opening scene of Rocky Balboa where the camera moves from a mural of Jesus to Rocky Balboa getting punched by his opponent in a boxing ring, Stallone said, “When I did Rocky, if you remember, the first image was a picture of Jesus, and it says, ‘Resurrection A.C. Club.’ I found a church that had been converted to a boxing ring,” he said. “So the image pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hit.”
“At that moment, he was a chosen person and that’s how I began the journey. Something’s gonna happen, this man is gonna go through a metamorphosis and change lives. Just like President Trump.”
“And I’ll just say this, and I mean it: When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world. ’cause without him, you could imagine what the world would look like.”
“Guess what? We got the second George Washington,” he said.
Then Stallone welcomed Trump on the stage and congratulated him on the November 5 win, though he did not explicitly endorse Trump before the election.
In 2016, Sylvester Stallone said he loved Donald Trump but later revealed that he did not vote in 2016. In 2020, he said he wanted the best person to win. “Even though everyone assumes I am so hardcore right, it’s not true,” he said. “I won’t go to fundraisers. I don’t do anything,” Stallone added. “I’m just an old filmmaker.” Stallone never identified himself as a Republican.
