Actor Frank Stallone told Newsmax that the current state of Los Angeles is “absolutely terrifying” and predicted that the Southern California city is “on a trajectory to oblivion.”

“I drive around downtown sometimes because I’m a historian,” Stallone said Monday on “National Report.” “I try to find some vestige of old Hollywood, like old places where movies were shot. And so I was driving around outside the city of Vernon and downtown, and I’ve lived in some pretty rough sections in my life. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” Stallone explained.

“It really looked like that movie ‘Escape From New York.’ And I can take care of myself, you know? I drive a truck, and I have my windows battened down. It was terrifying. I can just imagine some wonderful housewife with their children taking the wrong ramp and ending up down there,” he added.

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