Sylvester Stallone compared Donald Trump to his famous character Rocky Balboa, saying he's in awe of the president-elect's victory in the 2024 election and labeling him a mythical figure.
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00:00Donald Trump had a big gala at Mar-a-Lago last night,
00:06and there were a lot of people,
00:07there were a lot of people that he wants in his cabinet,
00:11and also a big movie star who actually is his neighbor,
00:15and this surprised me some.
00:18It was Sylvester Stallone,
00:20and Sylvester Stallone gave a 60 second speech
00:26that was just effusive about Donald Trump.
00:30Yeah, and made some comparisons that I'm not sure work,
00:36but this is how Sly sees it, and we'll break it down.
00:40When I did Rocky, if you remember,
00:43the first image was a picture of Jesus.
00:45So the image pans down from Jesus onto Rocky being hit,
00:50and at that moment, he was a chosen person,
00:53and that's how I began the journey.
00:56Something was gonna happen,
00:57this man was gonna go through a metamorphosis
00:59and change lives, just like President Trump.
01:04We are in the presence of a really mythical character.
01:08I love mythology,
01:10and this individual does not exist on this planet.
01:13Nobody in the world could have pulled off
01:15what he pulled off, so I'm in awe.
01:17When George Washington defended his country,
01:21he had no idea that he was gonna change the world,
01:25because without him, you could imagine
01:28what the world would look like.
01:29Guess what?
01:30We got the second George Washington, congratulations!
01:33Wow.
01:36I'm stunned by this, because-
01:37Serious hype right there.
01:39I have never heard him as a political person,
01:44and I've been around a long time.
01:45I've been around as long as Sly,
01:47and he's never ventured into politics this way.
01:50I don't think it's ever been a secret that he's conservative,
01:52but you're right, we've never seen him
01:54campaigning for people.
01:57We knew that he, like Donald Trump,
02:00I know he'd been to visit him at the White House
02:01a couple of times when he was in office,
02:04but we've never seen him out campaigning,
02:07and this was-
02:08By the way, I didn't even remember that
02:10until we showed it, but boy, he is all in.
02:14And by the way, his neighbor,
02:16he and Jennifer Flavin and the kids,
02:18they moved from LA to West Palm Beach
02:21a couple of years ago, so they are literally neighbors.
02:25Yeah, and moving to Florida at the time
02:27was somewhat of a political statement.
02:28A lot of people left California to move to Florida.
02:30They did it for some political reasons,
02:32some other economic reasons as well,
02:34but I was with him on the underdog story,
02:36the rocky comparison makes sense on a certain level.
02:40George Washington is the founding father of this nation.
02:43To call Donald Trump the second George Washington,
02:46they don't really share many qualities.
02:48George Washington didn't tell a lie.
02:50George Washington famously stepped away after a second term.
02:53This guy didn't even wanna leave after his first.
02:55It's a strained comparison.
02:56It is a strained comparison,
02:59but it is just really fascinating how this,
03:03and look, I think part of this,
03:05one of the reasons that it's resonating that way
03:09is because the media was so off in painting a narrative
03:14of how this election was gonna unfold.
03:17Also, what's kind of interesting is,
03:18and now I'm wondering about what Sly Stallone
03:21thought about it, Kamala Harris's last stand,
03:24the last campaign event she had
03:27was on the Rocky Steps in Philly.
03:29So that's just kind of interesting.
03:31You wonder how that landed with him.
03:33I wonder if that's what made him say,
03:34you know what, I am gonna speak out.
03:36That's what I was thinking.
03:36I mean, I actually thought about that.
03:38Hey, it's Nene from Atlanta.
03:40Comparing Donald Trump to Rocky Balboa
03:43or George Washington is really far-fetched.
03:45Both of those men, whether a character or in real life,
03:49fought for the underdog.
03:52They fought for the person that needed them the most.
03:55I don't see Donald Trump in that perspective at all.
03:57And coming to this election,
03:59a lot of people were worried about him winning
04:02because everybody felt like his campaign was longer
04:06and Kamala Harris had a short start to hers.
04:08So I think people are a little delusional
04:11when they try to compare him to characters
04:13or even a president such as George Washington
04:16with such a great history for this country.
04:18Yeah, I think there's gonna be a split
04:20right down the middle on this one.
04:22Speaking of the shindig that they had,
04:25there were two interesting people there.
04:27Exactly, one of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees,
04:30RFK Jr., who has been nominated
04:33for the Health and Human Services Secretary,
04:36but more-
04:37More important.
04:38Well, I don't know if importantly, but-
04:39Well, everybody's talking about this
04:41because everybody thought-
04:42You see Sheryl Hines-
04:43What's going on with the marriage?
04:45Yeah, you see his wife Sheryl Hines was there
04:47and happy and celebrating his nomination.
04:52Seeming like she's all on board.
04:54So you gotta remember,
04:55you gotta remember what's going on here.
04:57We had both of them on TMZ Live a while back
05:02and even asked about, specifically,
05:05when he was being considered for vice president-
05:07For Trump.
05:08Yeah, for his nominee. For Trump.
05:09She seemed very iffy on the whole thing.
05:13I wouldn't say iffy.
05:14Listen to this.
05:16Bobby, I think you had been asked
05:19whether you would accept a position on the ticket
05:25if Trump asked you,
05:26and I think your response was,
05:29that would be devastating to my marriage.
05:31So now we got the two of you here.
05:33So...
05:35I think Bobby knows me very well.
05:39Ah, okay.
05:41I think that's the answer. I think that's the answer.
05:42And that's also why he's not saying anything right now.
05:45Well, that was the answer.
05:47She's all in.
05:48Things have softened a bit.
05:49She is all in. As far as her view on-
05:51Well, this is interesting now
05:52because he's going to be the secretary
05:54of the Department of Health and Human Services-
05:56Well, there's a confirmation hearing, yeah.
05:59There is a confirmation hearing,
05:59but assuming he gets that role,
06:01she's now a part of that administration
06:03that's gonna have real consequences
06:04on her friendships in Hollywood.
06:05It just will.
06:06I think people will turn their back on her.
06:08It's one thing to endorse President Trump
06:10and help him get elected.
06:10It's another thing to be part of his administration.
06:13I think that will have consequences.
06:14Well, I mean, she had not been,
06:16while RFK was campaigning with Trump,
06:19Cheryl wasn't.
06:20Cheryl wasn't.
06:21And so she could have been keeping it at arm's length.
06:23But here's what Cheryl was.
06:25That we found out that the day after the election,
06:29RFK Jr. went to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump
06:33and that's when he offered RFK Jr.
06:37the position.
06:39She was there.
06:40She went with him.
06:41Cheryl was there.
06:42She went with him to Mar-a-Lago on that trip.
06:45So I don't think there is that kind of ambivalence
06:50that we saw before.
06:51It's not a fear, no.
06:52It's not a fear, no.
06:52It's not a fear, no.
06:53It's not a fear, no.
06:54It's not a fear, no.