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Sylvester Stallone calls Trump 'second George Washington' and a 'mythical character'

Sylvester Stallone called President-elect Donald Trump the "second George Washington" while introducing the former president at a gala.

The actor, during an America First Policy Gala in Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday compared Trump to his character in "Rocky," saying: "This man was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump."

He added: "We're in the presence of a really mythical character … Nobody in the world could've pulled off what he pulled off, so I'm in awe."

Trump, 78, won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide victory over Democratic nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris and may be the first Republican since George W. Bush in 2004 to secure the popular vote.

This triumph, Stallone suggested, put Trump next to George Washington in terms of safeguarding the United States.

"When George Washington defended his country, he had no idea that he was going to change the world," he said. "'Cause without him, you can imagine what the world would look like. Guess what, we got the second George Washington."

Stallone, 78, has not previously been outspoken about his politics, though he told Variety in 2016: "I love Donald Trump." But added: "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."

The actor joins conservative stars like Jason Aldean, Kid Rock, Caitlyn Jenner, Zachary Levi and Justine Bateman in speaking out about their political leanings.

Bateman, reflecting on the reason for Trump's win, told USA TODAY that people are over cancel cultureand exhausted over political correctness.

"Trying to shut down everybody, even wanting to discuss things that are going on in our society, has had a bad result," she said. "And we saw in the election results that more people than not are done with it. That's why I say it's over."

Bateman referenced COVID as an era where if you had a "wrong" opinion of some kind, society ostracized you. Elon Musk buying Twitter in April 2022 served, in her mind, as a turning point. "The air kind of went out of the Woke Party balloon," she said, "and I was like, 'OK, that's a nice feeling.' And then now with Trump winning, and this particular team that he's got around him right now, I really felt the air go out."

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