Sylvester Stallone praised President-elect Donald Trump and hailed him as the “second George Washington” at a speech Thursday night in Palm Beach, Fla.
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Stallone, 78, was introducing Trump at the America First Policy Institute gala, which took place at the President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago Club. The annual event supports Grey Team, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing military suicide.
“We’re in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone said to a roomful of cheers in a video shared on X by C-SPAN. “I love mythology. And this individual does not exist on this planet. Nobody in the world could have pulled off what he pulled off, so I’m in awe.”
He also likened Trump to Jesus and his boxer character Rocky telling the crowd his screen creation was “a chosen person … Something was going to happen. This man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump.”
He continued on by celebrating Trump as a commander-in-chief akin to America’s first president George Washington, whose leadership altered the course of U.S. history.
“When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was gonna change the world. Because without him, you could imagine what the world would look like. Guess what? We got the second George Washington.”
According to the Associated Press, the event featured a live band, white tablecloths, gold chairs and wedge salad. Guests also got copies of Trump’s Save America book on their chairs.
In addition to Stallone, the president-elect’s newly announced choice for secretary of Health and Human Services secretary in his upcoming administration, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was also in attendance.
Other guests included former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who have both been tapped to co-lead the department of government efficiency that Trump had promised to create upon taking office.
At the event, Trump said he will nominate Doug Burgum for interior secretary, which oversees energy development, grazing and other activities on federal waters and some 500 million acres of public land.
“We’re going to do things with energy and with land, interior, that is going to be incredible,” Trump said. “He’s going to head the Department of Interior, and he’s going to be fantastic.”
Stallone has largely stayed quiet about politics, but in an interview with Variety in 2016, the actor told the outlet that he was a fan of The Apprentice alum. “I love Donald Trump. He’s a great Dickensian character. You know what I mean?… There are certain people like Arnold (Schwarzenegger), Babe Ruth, that are bigger than life. But I don’t know how that translates to running the world.”
Back in 2021, Stallone shut down QAnon followers, after some of the adherents believed the actor was signaling the group when he posted a photo of himself sporting a cap with the letter “Q” alongside the caption: “Heading into the Storm…”
“For those incredibly inquisitive individuals, let me state unequivocally that the Q on this hat stands for Quantum of Solace, the name of the boat I was on, not anything else, OK?” he wrote on Instagram.
“Relax…So folks, the moral of the story is…enjoy your lives and let other people enjoy theirs…So keep punching.”
One of the central beliefs of the followers of the anonymous prophet named “Q” is that a cabal of Satanic, cannibalistic pedophiles operate a global child sex trafficking ring and conspired against Trump during his term in office.