Donald Trump’s special ambassador, Mel Gibson, has made makes one promise after a number of Hollywood A-listers fled the United States.
It's officially been one week now since the 78-year-old Republican leader was sworn in as president and, since then, he's already signed a flurry of executive orders and made a series of statements regarding various policies he plans on rolling out.
And, just like many other people across the nation, many celebrities have questioned how Trump becoming president will directly affect them, prompting many to leave the States altogether.
Such include the likes of Eva Longoria and America Ferrera.
Gibson, who Trump has selected as one of his 'special envoys' alongside Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight, with the purpose of promoting business in Hollywood, has since revealed why he hasn't jumped ship yet.
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Speaking with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Saturday (25 January), the 69-year-old Mad Max actor said he was 'ready, willing, and able to be of service' to Trump.
"A lot of people have left, and I don’t blame them," Gibson began, adding that many had left for the reasons that Hannity explained pushed me to move out of New York which included crime, schools, high taxes and regulations.
He continued: "It didn’t suit them anymore. Even… people who were liberal, it didn’t suit them anymore. But if everybody leaves, what’s going to happen?"
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Gibson, who recently lost his home in the Los Angeles wildfires, explained that, despite many A-listers fleeing, he's decided to stay in California - claiming that the state needed to 'be competitive' with the rest of the world to keep people from departing.
“[People] are going somewhere else because it’s more cost-effective. There [are] just a lot of prohibitive regulations and things in the way that I think could be lifted… But I think it can be fixed," he said.
Elsewhere in the interview, he said he'd focus on tax incentives in his new role as a 'special envoy', adding that those offered by California Gov. Gavin Newsom may not be 'enough'.
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"I know Newsom gave some tax incentives, but maybe not enough because it's still not working. There are other things that offset that," he continued.
Reflecting on the film industry, Gibson recalled that, on one occasion, it was cheaper for him to fly a whole film crew to Europe, sort accommodation and shoot for three days than it was to 'shoot for one day just down the road'.
"There's something wrong there," the Flight Risk actor added.
Topics: Donald Trump, Celebrity, Politics, US News
Rhiannon Ingle