Biden Insider Punctures Breezy CNN Morning Crew Chat On Trump ‘Ambassador’ Mel Gibson: ‘He’s Used The N-Word’

CNN analyst and former Biden Communications Director Kate Bedingfield changed the vibe of a breezy chat about President-elect Donald Trump appointing Mel Gibson an “ambassador” to Hollywood by bringing up his history of racist remarks.

Trump made the announcement Thursday that Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone were now his “Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California” — marking a first in American diplomacy.

On Friday’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt and her panel — Mark Preston, Alex Thompson, and Brad Todd — were laughing it up over Trump’s Hollywood outreach when Bedingfield dropped a not-so-breezy reminder about Gibson’s past remarks:

KASIE HUNT: Let’s turn now to this. Donald Trump making a very important personnel announcement over true social last night.

JIMMY KIMMEL (VIDEO CLIP): “It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to be special ambassadors to a great but very troubled place. Hollywood, California.”

Wow! Braveheart, Rambo, and The Midnight Cowboy, he summoned the three horsemen of the Apocalypto to save us. In other words, Trump saw The Expendables 3 on his plane last night —

KASIE HUNT: All right, Donald Trump tapping those three actors to serve as special envoys to me, for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to foreign countries and to be his, quote, eyes and ears.

Mel Gibson telling Variety that he was, quote, “just as surprised as anyone else.”.

“Any chance the position comes with an ambassador’s residence?” The Braveheart star added. Of course, he’s been through a lot in the last few days.

As for the Stallone pick, well, we know Trump loves winners.

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And so, Mark Preston, this is one of those things we know Donald Trump ever since he you know, the kid from Queens wanted to be accepted. Hollywood has never accepted him.

There are a few who have, they’re going to be the new, quote unquote, ambassadors. But we are seeing some movement among celebrities as well. I mean, Carrie Underwood is performing. It’s a little bit of a change.

MARK PRESTON: Gavin DeGraw. Yeah, you know what we’re seeing, too? We’re seeing the definition of Hollywood has expanded from beyond the traditional L.A. actors, right?

It is now influencers. It is folks on YouTube and what have you.

I think you’re going to see a lot more people start to come out for Trump because they feel comfortable with it.

ALEX THOMPSON: And also, just add a little twist on what you said, which is that Hollywood used to love Donald Trump. (LAUGHTER) And, you know, and then and then they and then he sort of feels they turned on him. And so this is a way of trying to win them back, win their approval back.

KATE BEDINGFIELD: Can I just say quickly that we should also should not forget Mel Gibson has used the N-word. He has said all sorts of anti-Semitic things.

I mean, look, it’s, it’s Donald Trump’s right to pick whoever he wants to be as ambassadors to Hollywood. But I, I don’t think we should lose sight of the fact that Mel Gibson has a really troubling history.

BRAD TODD: We pick ambassadors to foreign countries. And Hollywood is about as foreign from middle America as you can get. So I think we need to think about some foreign relations with Hollywood after this is over with, maybe cut a treaty. We’ll see what happens.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.