Despite the McMahon family being known supporters of soon to be former President Donald Trump, WWE has not referenced the WWE Hall of Famer during his 4-year term in office.
Despite being inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2013, WWE makes zero references to one of their most high profile inductees, and on Wrestling Observer Radio Dave Meltzer discussed the company’s mindset on the sitting President. While the McMahon family and various others within the company support him, the internal feeling is to avoid bringing him up on television because of how polarizing and controversial he is.
“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.’”
An author of a book about Trump and the WWE believes that Trump may eventually make his way back to the company to do public appearances as he starts trying to pay down $450 million of debt he owes, or at least find himself back in the public eye. And while fans may not be crazy for him, Vince McMahon may see money in Trump on Raw or SmackDown.
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