Sylvester Stallone celebrates Trump by calling him the ‘second George Washington’

Sylvester Stallone has described US president-elect Donald Trump arsenic the ‘second George Washington.’

While introducing the Republican Party person astatine the America First Policy Institute Gala held astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida connected Thursday, the Rocky histrion praised Trump’s win implicit Democratic Party campaigner Kamala Harris successful the predetermination earlier this month.

The 78-year-old besides compared the person to Washington, the Founding Father who served arsenic the archetypal president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.

‘I’ll conscionable accidental this – and I mean it,’ helium began. ‘When George Washington defended his country, helium had nary thought that helium was going to alteration the world.

‘Because without him, you could ideate what the satellite would look like. Guess what? We got the 2nd George Washington. Congratulations!’

Elsewhere, Stallone likened Trump to his iconic character, Rocky Balboa, from the boxing movie franchise.

To emphasise the point, helium recalled the opening framework successful the 1976 movie, which pans retired from a coating of Jesus Christ to Rocky being deed successful the gym.

‘At that moment, helium was a chosen idiosyncratic and that’s however I began the travel – thing was gonna happen, this antheral was gonna spell done a metamorphosis and alteration lives, conscionable similar President Trump,’ the 78-year-old continued.

‘We’re successful the beingness of a truly mythical character. I emotion mythology. And this idiosyncratic does not beryllium connected this planet.

‘Nobody successful the satellite could person pulled disconnected what helium pulled off, truthful I’m successful awe.’

Following the introduction, Trump walked onto the signifier and shared a long-held handshake with Stallone.

Previously, the Tulsa King prima has remained quiescent astir his governmental affiliations.

In a 2016 interrogation with Variety, helium revealed that helium ‘loves’ Trump and considers him to beryllium a ‘great Dickensian character.’

‘There are definite radical similar Arnold, Babe Ruth, that are bigger than life. But I don’t cognize however that translates to moving the world,’ helium added.

In the aforesaid year, Trump reportedly asked him to beryllium liable for managing an agency which gives retired backing to artists and originative projects successful his administration.

In 2021, the Expendables histrion denied being a subordinate of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club but confirmed helium had been invited there.

A connection obtained by the PA quality bureau astatine the clip read: ‘Sylvester Stallone has ne'er been and is not present a subordinate of Mar-a-Lago arsenic has been falsely reported.

‘He was an invited meal impermanent astatine the Club but is not himself a subordinate there.’

A connection in The Hollywood Reporter added: ‘He did not articulation the organisation, helium did not wage initiation dues.’

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