Sylvester Stallone labeled President-elect Donald Trump the “second George Washington” as the actor invoked his “Rocky” movie series during the star-studded America First Policy Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday night.
The 78-year-old Stallone described the opening scene of the first film where the camera pans down from a mural of Jesus inside an old church converted into a boxing gym as Rocky Balboa gets punched by his opponent, with the word “Resurrection AC Club” shown in the background.
“At that moment, he was a chosen person and that’s how I began the journey,” Stallone told the crowd in West Palm Beach, Florida. “Something’s gonna happen, this man is gonna go through a metamorphosis and change lives.”
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