World Wrestling Leisure corridor of famer Mick Foley introduced Tuesday that he’s severing his relationship with the corporate, particularly citing the shut ties between WWE management and President Donald Trump.
“While I have been concerned about WWE‘s close relationship with Donald Trump for several months—especially in light of his administration’s ongoing cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants (and pretty much anyone who ‘looks like an immigrant’)—reading the President’s incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me,” he wrote on Instagram.
President Donald Trump sits beside Training Secretary Linda McMahon, whose husband based WWE.
Foley mentioned he not needs to “represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy,” noting that he gained’t make appearances for the corporate so long as Trump is in workplace, nor will he renew his “Legends” contract with WWE which permits the group to make use of his likeness in merchandise and video video games.
The announcement comes a day after Trump made broadly condemned feedback on the demise of director Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele, who had been stabbed of their Los Angeles residence.
Trump mentioned, with out proof, that the couple was killed “reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”
Foley has been a mainstay of the wrestling world for many years the place he has carried out below his personal identify in addition to within the guise of characters like Mankind, Dude Love, and Cactus Jack. Foley was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013.
This isn’t the primary time that Foley has been outspoken about his political opinions. In 2024, he endorsed Kamala Harris for president, saying that “real men respect strong women.”
Hulk Hogan speaks throughout the 2024 Republican Nationwide Conference.
There are in depth ties between Trump and WWE. Present Training Secretary Linda McMahon served as small enterprise administrator in Trump’s first administration. She and her husband, WWE founder Vince McMahon, donated to elect Trump and different Republicans.
Present WWE Chief Content material Officer Triple H, whose authorized identify is Paul Levesque, is McMahon’s son-in-law and appeared with Trump on the White Home in July to announce the reinstatement of the presidential health take a look at.
Hulk Hogan, who died in July, was a outstanding supporter of Trump and spoke on the Republican Nationwide Conference. Trump beforehand appeared as a performer in WWE and can be in its corridor of fame.
Trump has additionally been related to the Final Combating Championship, even floating a doable battle on the White Home. TKO Holdings is the guardian firm of each WWE and UFC.
Over his profession, Foley has been concerned in outrageous and even distasteful stunts as a professional wrestler, however Trump’s heartless and mean-spirited nature was clearly over the road.
