Hulk Hogan: Wrestling legend dies aged 71

For the 2008 US presidential election, Hulk Hogan endorsed Barack Obama, who would go on to develop into the primary black US president.

But simply three years later, like his shirts, Hulk Hogan had ripped aside this assist.

“I was a big Obama supporter and kinda believed everything he said he was gonna do,” Hogan informed Fox News in 2011. But Obama hadn’t delivered on his marketing campaign guarantees, he mentioned.

Hogan was additionally sad about Obama opening his 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner speech with Hulk Hogan’s “Real American” track. It was tongue-in-cheek: As the track performed, screens confirmed a duplicate of Obama’s start certificates proving that he was born within the United States. False claims that Obama wasn’t American had been promoted by Donald Trump.

By the time of the 2016 election, Hogan had made a tough flip in the direction of Trump, endorsing him then, and once more in 2020. He even floated the thought of being Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, and even contemplated working for the White House too.

Last 12 months, he took to the stage on the Republican National Convention, the place he as soon as once more endorsed Trump, days after he had survived an assassination try.

“After everything that’s happened to our country over the past four years, and everything that happened last weekend, I can no longer stay silent,” he mentioned.

“I’m here tonight because I want the world to know that Donald Trump is a real American hero, and I’m proud to support my hero as the next president of this United States.”