EXCLUSIVE: Rocky goes to Washington! Trump taps Sylvester Stallone for top 'arts' role

[brooklynite]

Source: Daily Mail

Donald Trump has drawn ‘first blood’ in the search for his incoming administration's senior arts role - by tapping up Rambo legend Sylvester Stallone.

Sources have told DailyMail.com the president-elect sees Hollywood icon Stallone as the perfect choice to make art great again.

The likely position would be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency that doles out funds to aspiring artists and creative projects.

If Stallone is formally offered that job, his appointment will have to be approved by Congress.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4037802/Donald-Trump-taps-Sylvester-Stallone-arts-role.html

[Javaman]

1. ...

[niyad]

20. elvis had talent.

[Jim__]

2. Eh. Art.

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[msongs]

3. not lbn. daily mail is not a news site to begin with :-)

[Paladin]

4. Yeah, this should go really well.

[elmac]

5. I think he wants Rocky to direct his new movie

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. From now on, weer gonna have only da best peepul in da art gallery. Da best.

For your viewing pleasure:

https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/jon-mcnaughton-1967/

http://jonmcnaughton.com/patriotic/obamanation/

[lunasun]

7. Reagan tried to get rid of it .trump will chip away at it 's integrity . Evangelicals also have a

thing against this agency

[justhanginon]

8. The Evangelicals seem to have something against

virtually anything that does not involve Jeebus 24/7/365.

[silverweb]

18. True to a point.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Did you ever notice, though, how the most hard-core fundamentalist evangelicals (1) rarely, if ever, quote their savior from the Gospels, but revel in the Old Testament's vengeful passages, and (2) ignore his directives of forgiveness, humility, and charity towards all (except, perhaps, among themselves) but prefer those cherry-picked parts of Old Testament law that they like?

[angrychair]

9. Boycott Stallone

And all his business interests and all his "movies".

NBC as well.

It's not that hard. I haven't watched NBC since the new Apprentice show was announced and that Trump would continue being associated with as president.


Twitter: @theslystallone

[Cryptoad]

11. Does anybody watch regular tv anymore?

[angrychair]

13. Enough do

More importantly are sports broadcast and advertising. Viewership and demographics mean everything to a network executive. It means no advertising dollars and smaller paychecks for executives just for a start.

[brooklynite]

14. Remind us which network the SNL Trump parodies are on?

[LanternWaste]

15. Or, be an adult and separate the art from the artist.

Or, be an adult and separate the art from the artist. Carravagio was a murderer... do that detract from his body of work? Aristophanes rationalized a slave-society, do we boycott all his philosophies?

If we judge art solely on the merit of the artist, we become as small-minded as the GOP.

[angrychair]

17. Sorry, no

I will boycott and publicly shame ANYONE that endorses or advocates for trump, to include ANY pick for his cabinet.

I will not allow ANYONE to normalize the past or current behavior or conduct of trump or his cabinet of chaos.

[Cryptoad]

10. Sylvester Who??????

[nolabear]

12. He's like a child who has childlike ideas about what's big and powerful.

God, we are truly on our own.

[SansACause]

16. Isn't that a fake news site?

I thought dailymail was one of the fake ones?

[LuckyLib]

19. Of course! Who else?

This nightmare just goes on and on.

[resistance2016]

22. Could've been worse...

It could've been someone who draws My Little Pony characters in shitty diapers being eaten by Sonic the Hedgehog characters with dicks for mouths.

[niyad]

21. LA times also covering it:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-trump-eyeing-a-sly-figure-for-key-arts-1481904627-htmlstory.html

[blogslut]

23. If this story is true, it's not the worst thing.

Mr. Stallone has long been a painter and was even friendly with Andy Warhol. I know the actor is a Republican and supporter of Cheeto Jesus but this is the least odious appointment so far.