Donald Trump is the current President of the United States, and he also happens to be a WWE Hall of Famer. Trump has a long history with WWE, but the company has not mentioned him since he became President of the United States.
Dave Meltzer recently discussed WWE’s lack of Trump acknowledgement on Wrestling Observer Radio, and he noted that the belief backstage is that mentioning Trump won’t do the company any good.
“Ever since Trump got elected they’ve tried to straddle the fence because they know that their audience is very heavily skewed Mexican American, very heavily skewed African American, you know compared to [other sports] and lower income. A lot of their audience didn’t like Trump, and even though [the McMahon Family] did, it was like ‘never talk about Trump. Not on the website, never.’ They never talked about Trump. That was their doctrine because they read the landscape and they knew it would do them no good.
They didn’t want to rip him because Trump has a short fuse and he’d take it out on them, but they didn’t want to do anything to support him even though they did go to the [Oval] Office and they got those pictures with him. They didn’t talk about him on their website, and I’m sure from their standpoint right now their idea is ‘we don’t want to say anything.’”
Following the protests at the Capitol in Washington D.C. last week former WWE Champion Mick Foley took to Twitter to suggest that Vince McMahon should remove Donald Trump from the WWE Hall of Fame.
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