Donald Trump told WWE legend The Undertaker that he’s won the respect of one of Hollywood and wrestling’s biggest after being shot.
Trump appeared on the The Undertaker’s eagerly-anticipated podcast ‘Six Feet Under’ on Monday.
The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, was asked by Trump who the biggest wrestling star on social media was and answered that it was Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson.
Trump then discussed his history with The Rock, who has recently admitted to regretting endorsing Joe Biden over Trump in 2020, saying: ‘He was great. I never thought he liked me, and I felt badly, because I think he’s a terrific guy.’
He then heard from UFC promoter Dana White how impressed Johnson was after Trump rose to his feet and responded to being shot.
‘And then Dana White said, when I was shot — took a shot to the ear, you may have heard about it — Rock called Dana and said, ‘I want to have his number. I want to have his number. What he did is sort of incredible.’ He considered it bravery. I don’t know, to me, I considered it, ‘What’s going on here?’ But it was very nice, the Rock.’
The Undertaker agreed with Johnson’s take on Trump’s response to the shooting and Trump asked him to pass along his good feelings to Johnson.
Johnson indeed publicly praised Trump after the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania.
‘Whether you love Donald, don’t love Donald, it doesn’t matter. They tried to assassinate him,’ he said at a conference in Florida.
‘There’s no room for that. Despite it being who we were in that moment, I still believe in my core that is not who we are as a country. So him standing up at that moment, we wanted to see that,’ the Washington Times reported.
In April, Johnson, 51, who many have tipped for a run for office someday, admitted regretting his endorsement of Joe Biden in 2020.
The Hollywood megastar told Fox and Friends he isn’t happy with the ‘state’ of America right now and admitted that ‘woke‘ and ‘cancel culture‘ really ‘bugs him’.
In a stunning reversal, he also admitted that publicly supporting Biden over Trump four years ago caused ‘division’ – something he said ‘tears me up.’
‘The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,’ he told the program.
‘I realize now going into this election, I will not do that, my goal is to bring this country together, he added.
‘I will keep my politics to myself. It is between me and the ballot box. Like a lot of us out there, not trusting of all politicians, I do trust the American people and whoever they vote for that is my president and who I will support 100 percent’.
True to his word, he has yet to make any endorsement in the 2024 election, only professing his admiration for Trump’s response to the shooting.
It was a stunning turnaround from 2020, when the Rock gave a full-throated endorsement, in a move the Biden campaign blasted out on its website. Having the macho validator was a way to counter Trump’s own messaging that he was the tougher candidate. His comments made repeated references to Kamala Harris as well.
He said it was something he had ‘never done in the past’ but decided to ‘go big’ and followed a sit-down with both of them.
‘I’ve never publicly endorsed a Presidential candidate or Vice Presidential Candidate in my life,’ he said. ‘You guys are both experienced to lead, you’ve done great things. Joe you’ve had such an incredible career, and you’ve led with such great compassion, heart, drive, and soul … Kamala you have been a district attorney, a state attorney, a U.S. Senator. You are smart and tough. I have seen you in those hearings,’ he said.
He called them the ‘best choice to lead our country.’
Harris gushed back in a zoom meeting that included Joe Biden and the Rock that she was a ‘huge fan of Fast & Furious, all of them to Jumanji,’ referencing his film catalogue.
