Senior Trump national security and foreign policy advisers – including plenty of his incoming Cabinet picks – have railed against TikTok in the past. Prior to promising the app’s salvation, Rep. Mike Waltz, tapped as national security adviser, denounced the app as a “Chinese government Trojan horse” and an “arm of the communists.”

The president-elect says the envoys will bring foreign business back to Hollywood but it's unclear what their roles will involve.

President-elect Donald Trump wants to make Hollywood "bigger, better and stronger" and has cast Mel Gibson, Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone as stars of what he is calling his "Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place,