Mel Gibson is being criticised after he was filmed saluting former president Donald Trump at a UFC even over the weekend.
The Hollywood star, who has a string of controversies attached to him, was filmed giving Trump a military-style salute as the former president made his way into the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas for UFC 264 on Saturday night.
A bearded Gibson can be seen just behind Trump in the below video, although the former president doesn’t appear to notice the actor or his salute at all.
Lmao mel gibson saluted trump at ufc and got completely ignored pic.twitter.com/VFf42FQJqb
— Adam (@petsh0pboy) July 11, 2021
Gibson is hardly a stranger to unpopular opinions and is hardly a figure that is held in high esteem anymore so him being a Trump fan shouldn’t be a huge surprise. However, the 65-year-old Australian’s choice to salute Trump has raised a few eyebrows as well as further the condemnation of the Oscar winner.
Why did Mel Gibson who never served in the military salute captain bone spur who dodged the draft?
— Avenger Resister (@AvengerResister) July 12, 2021
The crazy thing is, you didn't even need to know why Mel Gibson was trending to know that he probably did something shitty.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 12, 2021
Rest in hell to his dead career. pic.twitter.com/H8eMpA99dq
Mel Gibson is who we thought he was.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 12, 2021
There is no such thing as cancel culture if Mel Gibson isn’t cancelled by now.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 13, 2021
Mel Gibson’s dishonorable salute just got him demoted to the D-List with Qevin Sorbo, Scott Baio, and Dean Cain.
— 💞🕊Heyoka 🕊💞 (@HeyokaEmpath01) July 12, 2021
So patriotic, Mel Gibson, a man whose father left the US to move to Australia, in part, so his sons could avoid serving in Vietnam, military saluting Donald Trump, a man whose father paid a doctor to write a phony excuse so he wouldn’t have to fight in that same war. pic.twitter.com/uO6x2tmESR
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 12, 2021
Mel Gibson is the Rob Schneider of Dean Cains of Scott Baios of Kevin Sorbos of James Woods.
— Machine Pun Kelly (@KellyScaletta) July 12, 2021
Some Trump supporters were obviously happy to see the actor/director backing their man.
Yup it’s Mel Gibson pic.twitter.com/0ELAtdiSbq
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 12, 2021
So Actor, Director Mel Gibson was so excited to see President Trump at the fight on Saturday night that he saluted the president as he walked by. Hollywood Liberals went in to full meltdown. Mel is worth $400 million, so what are they going to do? Cancel him? LOL. pic.twitter.com/8yxyw1QUZs
— Trump ! (@MichaelDeLauzon) July 13, 2021
Beyond the salute, Gibson told UFC that he wanted to see a rematch of the main event between Conor McGregor and Dustin Poirier, which the latter won in round one via KO/TKO.
The one, the only, Mel Gibson is in the house! 🇦🇺🤩 #UFC264 pic.twitter.com/aDLZ9iqICb
— UFC_AUSNZ (@UFC_AUSNZ) July 11, 2021
