President-elect Donald Trump is America’s “second George Washington,” action film star and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone has said.
Stallone praised the president-elect on Thursday when he introduced him at an America First Policy Institute gala at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
“We’re in the presence of a really mythical character,” Stallone said of Trump. “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.”
The actor went on to compare Trump to George Washington, the hero of the war of independence and the first US president.
“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,” Stallone said.
He also compared Trump to Rocky Balboa, the lead character in the ‘Rocky’ film series, who was…
