Mick Foley is severing ties with WWE amid the corporate’s alleged help of President Donald Trump, calling the president’s current feedback in regards to the late Rob Reiner the “final straw.”
Foley, 60, introduced his determination to half methods with WWE on Tuesday, December 16, explaining through Instagram that he’s been “involved” in regards to the WWE’s “shut relationship with Donald Trump for a number of months.”
The retired wrestler stated his issues grew “in mild of [the Trump] administration’s ongoing merciless and inhumane therapy of immigrants (and just about anybody who ‘appears like an immigrant’).”
The turning level, nonetheless, got here after Foley stated he learn the president’s “extremely merciless feedback within the wake of Rob Reiner’s demise,” stating it “is the ultimate straw for me.”
Rob and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, had been discovered useless of their house on Sunday, December 14, after being murdered.
Us Weekly later confirmed that the couple’s 32-year-old son Nick Reiner was arrested on a homicide cost and held with out bail. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles District Lawyer’s workplace introduced that Nick was formally charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and could possibly be dealing with life in jail with out parole or the demise penalty, ought to he be discovered responsible.
As Hollywood mourned the deaths of the director and his longtime partner, who had been 78 and 68, respectively, Trump, 79, issued a press release that seemingly pointed Rob’s alleged issues with him as the explanation he was killed.
“A really unhappy factor occurred final night time in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, however as soon as very gifted film director and comedy star, has handed away, collectively together with his spouse, Michele, reportedly as a result of anger he triggered others via his huge, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a thoughts crippling illness often known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, generally known as TDS,” Trump wrote through his Fact Social platform on Monday.
He continued: “He was recognized to have pushed folks CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, together with his apparent paranoia reaching new heights because the Trump Administration surpassed all targets and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, maybe like by no means earlier than. Might Rob and Michele relaxation in peace!”
Within the wake of the controversial feedback, Foley revealed on Tuesday that “now not” needs to “symbolize an organization that coddles a person so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our nation in direction of autocracy.”
By no means one to carry again, Stephen A. Smith unleashed an impassioned rant towards President Donald Trump over his response to the deaths of Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele Singer Reiner. “The President selecting to touch upon their passing in a disrespectful, acerbic and disgusting method is beneath the workplace of the presidency,” Smith, 58, […]
Foley shared, “Final night time, I knowledgeable @WWE expertise relations that I might not be making any appearances for the corporate so long as this man stays in workplace. Moreover, I cannot be signing a brand new Legends deal when my present one expires in June.”
He famous, “I like WWE, will all the time treasure my time with them, and I’m deeply appreciative for all of the alternatives they afforded me. However, within the phrases of Popeye the sailor, ‘I stands all I can stands, and I can’t stands no extra.’”
Us Weekly has reached out to WWE for remark.
Foley is a retired skilled wrestler, comic and creator. Throughout his time within the enviornment, Foley glided by Cactus Jack from 1991 to 1996. He famously wore cowboy books and used gadgets akin to barbed wire throughout his matches.
Rob Reiner and spouse Michele Singer Reiner had a rocky historical past with President Donald Trump. Michele crossed paths with Trump earlier than she married Rob. Throughout her time as a photographer, she labored with Trump on the quilt of his e-book The Artwork of the Deal, which was revealed in 1987. Two years later, Michele and […]
He made his WWE debut in 1996 as Mankind, taking over the ring persona of Dude Love the next 12 months. Cactus Jack made his return in 1997 as properly and Foley fought as all three throughout 1998’s Royal Rumble.
The four-time world champion was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013, one 12 months after retiring from wrestling. Foley, nonetheless, has maintained his affiliation with WWE, working because the Uncooked Normal Supervisor from 2016 to 2017 and making appearances on WWE Uncooked for years.
Trump, in the meantime, has had a longstanding relationship with the WWE, particularly former CEO and Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon, who resigned in 2024 after allegations of sexual assault. (McMahon has denied the allegations and the federal prosecutors dropped the prison investigation in February.)
Previous to turning into president, Trump made a number of appearances on WWE packages and was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013 as a celeb honoree.
At the moment, WWE Chief Content material Officer Paul Michael Levesque — often known as Triple H — serves as a part of the president’s health council.
