Trump Riffs ‘Flabby’ Actors Could Never Play ‘Rocky’ Like Sly Stallone

Trump Riffs Hollywood Stars Were Too ‘Flabby’ To Play ‘Rocky’ As He Honors Sylvester Stallone at Kennedy Center Dinner

Sean James Dec 6th, 2025, 9:05 pm

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President Donald Trump took a quick detour while hosting the Kennedy Center awards dinner on Saturday evening to share why honoree Sylvester Stallone was the perfect guy to star in — because he wasn’t fat.

Trump told the crowd that several studios were interested in making the 1976 Oscar winning flick, but they wanted to have a “top” actor in the lead role, not Stallone. A number of Hollywood A-listers at the time were considered, including Burt Reynolds and James Caan, al