Oscar winner Sylvester Stallone invoked both George Washington and Jesus while praising President-elect Donald Trump at a black-tie gala Thursday celebrating the billionaire's landslide election victory at Mar-a-Lago.

Stallone, who previously shared that he sat out the 2016 and 2020 elections, has remained publicly silent about Trump's most recent run for the White House.

Sylvester Stallone welcomed Donald Trump to the stage at the President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago event Thursday evening, praising him as the “second George Washington.” The two shook hands before Trump’s headlining speech for the America First Policy Institute gala,