In a Monday night time look on CNN, WWE Corridor of Fame wrestler Mick Foley stated that he’s endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign.
The retired performer was a visitor on “Laura Coates Live.”
“Real men respect strong women, they don’t live in fear of them,” Foley stated, describing himself as a longtime supporter of the Democratic nominee for president. “I just believe she’s a positive person, a very competent person. I want to embrace the joy that she brings. The optimism and not the fear that has been Donald Trump’s hallmark.”
Foley wrestled beneath his actual title and likewise used the names Mankind, Cactus Jack, and Dude Love. Throughout his time as a wrestler with WWE, Foley received three world championship titles and eight tag-team titles. He was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013.
He additionally beforehand served on the board of RAINN, or the Rape, Abuse and Incest Nationwide Community, which advocates on behalf of abuse survivors.
Foley expressed his distaste for the Republican presidential nominee’s rhetoric, which he stated “demeans citizens of this country.” He additionally criticized Trump for speaking all the way down to ladies and cited Trump’s historical past of not paying contractors, which Foley characterised as “screwing over his workers.”
The CNN interview was a follow-up to a viral video that Foley posted final Wednesday in response to a podcast interview between Trump and the Undertaker, a widely known wrestler additionally within the Corridor of Fame.
Throughout that interview, the Undertaker remarked that Trump had made politics “fun.”
“For about three weeks in 2016, but it’s eight years later and there’s absolutely nothing fun about this man,” Foley stated in response.
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Trump additionally has the backing of Hulk Hogan, some of the standard wrestlers of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties. Hogan spoke on the racist Trump rally in Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday and likewise spoke earlier than the Republican Nationwide Conference earlier this 12 months.
In August, Hogan was caught on video ranting in a bar about how he wished to “body slam Kamala Harris” and requested patrons, “Want me to drop the leg on Kamala?” The leg drop was Hogan’s signature transfer within the ring.
Within the video, Hogan additionally made racist feedback about Native People and Harris’ Indian heritage. In 2015, WWE quickly reduce ties with him after a video of Hogan spouting racial epithets surfaced.
When he isn’t indulging in racism like his pal Trump, Hogan additionally has a popularity as a union buster, allegedly working behind the scenes towards efforts to unionize wrestlers.
Trump lately got here beneath fireplace from the United Auto Employees for selling Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s coverage of retribution towards staff planning to strike.
