ble pounding on social media for his bold po- litical stance. But given Voight’s acting gifts and career momentum, even Hollywood’s die-hard liberals couldn’t afford to cancel him. So they continue to work with him. That’s given Voight the platform to serve
as a present-day celebrity speaking Judeo- Christian truths into a prodigal culture. As Hirsen observes, “He’s always talking about faith and family as being integral to freedom, and he does it with such eloquence that he’s become kind of a combination of a statesman and a preacher. “The one person I could compare him a lit-
tle bit to is Charlton Heston, which is why we have to go back to someone who’s left us. But even Heston didn’t have that much of a range. “Heston had a pretty amazing range. But
Jon Voight can play so vast a range of charac- ters. I couldn’t see Heston as a gigolo on the streets of New York, an ex-boxing champion, or Howard Cosell. Jon Voight pulls off every role.” As a university professor and columnist
well versed on Hollywood’s leftward lean, Hirsen notes Voight also continues to be a major influence on aspiring actors as well. “I brush elbows with young actors in my
work,” Hirsen says. “You say Jon Voight’s name and it’s like saying Pavarotti to some- one who’s trying to learn how to sing. “Jon Voight’s a virtuoso. It doesn’t mat-
ter their political views, they just realize he’s someone to aspire to,” he says. Ah, but then Voight dealt the ultimate
shock and awe to Hollywood’s progressives. He declared his ardent support for a business- man/entertainer turned populist politician by the name of Donald J. Trump.
Bedminster, New Jersey, he asked him about the Abraham Accords. Of course he’d met Trump before, most
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notably in 2019 when the then-president pre- sented him with the National Medal of Arts
hen Voight had the opportu- nity to sit down with Trump for an interview for the docu- mentary at his golf club in
PEACE President Donald Trump witnesses the signing of the historic Abraham Accords at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020, with the foreign minister of Bahrain, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, left, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the UAE foreign minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed.
award at the White House. But that was before the historic, land-
mark agreement marking diplomatic recog- nition between Israel and its Sunni neigh- bors, including the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Sudan and Morocco later agreed to recognize Israeli sovereignty as well.
It had been nearly four decades since the
last Middle East peace deal recognizing Is- rael, involving Jordan. Yet at the time, with an election looming and pandemic fears running amok, the legacy media largely seemed to shrug off the achievement. During the interview, Voight and Trump
seemed to recognize each other as kindred souls. Both, after all, had stood firm in the public square against incredible pressure. Both had declared truth to entrenched, powerful interests who would do almost anything to sweep them off the gameboard of American culture and politics. Voight sees Trump as the rare leader who
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