Actor Jon Voight, 80, posts glowing tribute videos to Trump

Oscar-winning actor and staunch conservative Jon Voight, 80, calls Trump ‘the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln’ and urges Americans to ‘stand with him’ in a glowing social media tribute

  • Actor Jon Voight has paid glowing tribute to Donald Trump in a video message 
  • Voight, 80, an outspoken conservative and Academy Award winner, posted a directly to Twitter hoping to galvanize and unite Republican Party members 
  • In the video he heaped praise on the president, stating: ‘I know that you’ll agree with me when I say that our president has our utmost respect and our love’ 
  • Voight rose to fame in the lead role of Joe Buck in the 1969 flick ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and has enjoyed an acclaimed six-decade career on the big screen 

Actor Jon Voight has paid glowing tribute to Donald Trump calling him the ‘greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.’

Voight, 80, an outspoken conservative and Academy Award winner, posted a series of videos directly to Twitter hoping to galvanize and unite Republican Party members ahead of the 2020 presidential reelection campaign.

In the video he heaped praise on the president, who was recently attacked by some quarters of his party, stating: ‘I know that you’ll agree with me when I say that our president has our utmost respect and our love. 

Voight, 80, an outspoken conservative and Academy Award winner, posted a video directly to Twitter hoping to galvanize and unite Republican Party members ahead of the 2020 presidential reelection campaign

‘This job is not easy for he’s battling the left and their absurd words of destruction…  Our nation has been built on the solid ground from our forefathers and there is a moral code of duty that has been passed on from President Lincoln,’ he added.

The Oscar-winner told his followers that he wanted to ‘acknowledge the truth’ that ‘our country is stronger, safer, and with more jobs’ because President Trump ‘has made every move correct.’ 

‘Don’t be fooled by the political left because we are the people of this nation that is witnessing triumph,’ Voight added.

‘So let us stand with our president, let us stand for this truth that President Trump is the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. God bless America.’ 

In the video he heaped praise on the president, who was recently attacked by some quarters of his party, stating: 'I know that you'll agree with me when I say that our president has our utmost respect and our love

In the video he heaped praise on the president, who was recently attacked by some quarters of his party, stating: ‘I know that you’ll agree with me when I say that our president has our utmost respect and our love

This was not the first time the actor linked Trump and Lincoln, the nation's 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and ended the Civil War

This was not the first time the actor linked Trump and Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and ended the Civil War

Voight rose to fame in the lead role of Joe Buck in the 1969 flick ‘Midnight Cowboy’ and has enjoyed a six-decade career on the big screen.

He also appeared in Mission Impossible, Zoolander and Transformers, as well as television roles in 24 and Ray Donovan. 

This was not the first time the actor linked Trump and Lincoln, the nation’s 16th president, who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and ended the Civil War.

Speaking at an inauguration rally in January 2017 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Voight said, ‘God answered all our prayers’ by granting Trump the White House, The Hill reported at the time.  

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