Wrestling legend quits WWE over ties to ‘incredibly cruel’ Trump

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.

“Whereas I’ve been involved about WWE‘s shut relationship with Donald Trump for a number of months—particularly in gentle of his administration’s ongoing merciless and inhumane therapy of immigrants (and just about anybody who ‘seems to be like an immigrant’)—studying the President’s extremely merciless feedback within the wake of Rob Reiner’s dying is the ultimate straw for me,” he wrote on Instagram.

Foley mentioned he now not needs to “signify an organization that coddles a person so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our nation in direction of 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 extensively condemned feedback on the dying of director Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele, who have been stabbed of their Los Angeles house. 

Trump mentioned, with out proof, that the couple was killed “reportedly as a result of anger he precipitated others by means of his large, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a thoughts crippling illness generally known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”

Foley has been a mainstay of the wrestling world for many years the place he has carried out underneath his personal title 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 “actual males respect sturdy girls.”

There are intensive 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 title 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 Preventing Championship, even floating a doable combat on the White Home. TKO Holdings is the mother or father 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.