Wrestling icon Mick Foley has spilled on why Donald Trump’s response to the killings of director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, led him to distance himself from WWE due to its relationship with the president.
“Belittling the man who just died, somehow tying it into Reiner’s dislike of Donald Trump — for me, that was the ball-peen hammer tap that broke the windshield,” said Foley on Tuesday’s episode of “The Ariel Helwani Show.”
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Foley — a Trumpcritic known for personas like Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love during his WWE Hall of Fame career — declared that he wouldn’t be making appearances for the company so long as Trump was in office, calling the president’s reaction to the Reiners’ killings as the “final straw” for him in a statement to social media last year.
“Just heartless, unbelievably cruel comments coming from the most powerful man in the world finding joy in how somebody died,” said Foley of Trump in his interview with Helwani.