Mick Foley Announces He Is Parting Ways With WWE Over Relationship With Donald Trump

[Mr. Sparkle]

Mick Foley has announced that he is parting ways with WWE and will make no further appearances for the company due to its relationship with United States President Donald Trump. The WWE Hall of Famer released a statement explaining that Trump’s recent comments regarding the death of film director Rob Reiner served as the catalyst for his decision.

“While I have been concerned about WWE‘s close relationship with Donald Trump for several months — especially in light of his administration’s ongoing cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants (and pretty much anyone who “looks like an immigrant”) — reading the President’s incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me,” Foley wrote. “I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy.”

Foley confirmed that he has already notified the company of his decision. He also revealed that his current contract is set to end later this year and he has no intention of renewing it under the current political climate.

“Last night, I informed @WWE talent relations that I would not be making any appearances for the company as long as this man remains in office,” Foley wrote. “Additionally, I will not be signing a new Legends deal when my current one expires in June. I love WWE, will always treasure my time with them, and I am deeply appreciative for all the opportunities they afforded me. But, in the words of Popeye the sailor, ‘I stands all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.’” The announcement comes shortly after President Trump posted a message on Truth Social regarding Rob Reiner’s passing. In the post, Trump attributed Reiner’s death to “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and claimed the director was “tortured and struggling.”

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[LexVegas]

1. Foley is God. nt

[underpants]

2. Good. He's a good guy from everything I've seen

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

3. Good

Thank you for having a spine

[everyonematters]

4. What exactly is the relationship between the WWE and Trump? Anyone have any info?

[Wiz Imp]

5. Here's an article on it

This article doesn't mention it, but the McMAhon's were Trump's biggest donors to the Trump Foundation alleged "charity". They donated over $20 million to his 2024 campaign. And of Course Linda McMahion was tapped to serve both in the first and the current Trump administrations.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/donald-trump-pro-wrestling-wwe-00298303

How Professional Wrestling Explains Donald Trump's Washington
Trump has a deep connection with the world of professional wrestling — he is a WWE Hall of Famer himself. Trump hosted two early WrestleManias in the late 1980s. He purported to “buy” Monday Night Raw, WWE’s flagship program, in 2009.
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Trump also embraces another central tenet of wrestling: “kayfabe,” which refers to maintaining the illusion that pro wrestling is real. Kayfabe is the agreement between fans and wrestlers that we’re all okay with accepting that somewhere-in-the middle reality for the sake of the show. Wrestling fans know it’s all fake — that The Undertaker is not actually an undead mortician with mystical powers, but a real human being that just so happened to have candidate Trump as a guest on his podcast. But most of the fun of wrestling comes from the blurred lines of real and make believe. Those in Washington may be familiar with kayfabe by another name: taking Trump seriously, but not literally.

“No one knows what is a bluff or isn’t, and the world hangs in the balance,” Josephine Riesman, the author of the biography “Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America”, said of Trump. “There’s the spectacle of the fact that the world hangs in the balance. But what got us there is an information environment in which a lot of information outlets contributed to Donald Trump’s melting of reality.”Trump lives and dies by kayfabe, where friend and foe alike never seem to know what’s real and what’s all for show. (Just ask Republicans explaining themselves in a circle on every recent tariff move.) Perhaps the only person to more fully embody kayfabe is wrestling impresario Vince McMahon himself.

McMahon and his wife Linda have been significant financial supporters of Trump’s political career — Linda McMahon served as Trump’s first Small Business Administration head and now serves as his secretary of Education. You don’t have to squint too hard to see the similarities between Vince McMahon’s on-screen persona — the swaggering, braggadocious, larger than life “Mr. McMahon” — and in how the president carries himself.