WWE legend known as The Undertaker cut his own election promo in a video posted to social media on Friday after pro wrestling star Dave Bautista, known as Bautista, took shots at former President Donald Trump earlier in the week.
The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Callaway, was seen on a video next to his former WWE colleague Kane, the current mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, whose real name is Glenn Jacobs, and Trump and addressed potential voters about their options come Election Day.
“All right everyone. November 5th – ElectionMania. The choice is yours. You can go with President Trump, Kane and The Undertaker or you can take Kamala Harris, Dave Bautista and Tim Walz. Choose wisely – the nation depends on it,” Callaway said in a TikTok vieo.
“And that should be an easy choice,” Trump added.
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The Republican presidential nominee’s appearance with the wrestling greats came after Bautista made a video firing shots left and right at Trump as he expressed his support for Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for president.
“Fellas, we gotta talk,” Bautista said in part. “A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not. I mean, look at him, he wears more make-up than Dolly Parton. He whines like a baby. The guy is afraid of birds. Donald Trump had his daddy pay a doctor to say his little feet hurt, so he could dodge the draft. Look at that gut. It’s like a garbage bag full of buttermilk.”
His rant was accompanied by various related images and clips of Trump during his presidency and campaign.
In a comment to Fox News Digital on Wednesday, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung pushed back, calling Bautista a “stone-cold loser” and mocked his WWE career.
He’s an old white guy from Texas who espouses the worst of “old school” motorcycle culture… don’t be shocked. Jericho, Kane, probably a dozen or more of your favorites from years past and even now will disappoint you if you know their politics. Enjoy the characters, the people behind them are going to be disappointments.
Jericho is a loud, pro Trump Canadian who has donated over $50k to Trump and whose wife was at the January 6th insurrection
He even was popular early on in AEW with everyone singing his theme. I mean EVERYONE.
Then he came out with “A little bit of the bubbley” and sold it himself.
Then he came out as a trump supporter. And replied to a tweet bashing him for supporting trump. He then responded that all sales from a little bit of the bubbley were going towards financing trumps 2020 run.
Notice how in the arenas only half the people were singing his song? And chanting for him to retire the past 2 years?
Jericho was my favorite wrestler when I stopped watching back around 2003. I checked him out recently and holy hell, what the fuck happened to him? He is disaster, and cringe as hell now that he’s so old and still doing the same kinda silly stuff
Just addressing the wrestling aspect: He kept reinventing himself (successfully) every few years in WWE and then AEW (with some NJPW in the middle), but right now he’s on almost every fucking episode of AEW consistently for the last few years it seems.
Right now a lot of fans are tired of him and Jericho is aware, has acknowledged it tongue-in-cheek on screen, and developed his current character to lean into that fact instead of taking a break.
He’s pulling an x PAC I guess. I was rewatching the attitude era recently and around 2000 you can tell fans are sick of xpac and his unexplainable, constant pushes. People started with xpac sucks chants then went to angry boos, and then settled on indifference and people getting up to go to the washroom during his matches.
Xpac was mid card at best, but kept getting tossed into main events with the Rock, triple h, angle, etc. Matches he had no business being in but was there cause he was the kliq’s little pet
Also, Jericho is kinda starting to remind me of Hogan. The old guy who is hogging air time, despite fans being sick of his shit, and refusing to go away or give up the spotlight. Which is funny cause that’s the kind of old wrestlers that Jericho used to complain about in wcw, now he’s that guy
The sole differences (with the rest being accurate lol) being that Jericho is at least sharing the spotlight. He may be hogging the tv time but he’s also giving Bryan Keith and Cass some things to do and they’ve been solo showcased several times while being part of this storyline/with Jericho. That and Jericho isn’t forcing himself into the main event/title picture.
He desperately wants his TV time and doesn’t wanna go away but he could be worse. We could have an announcement for Jericho vs Mox next week for the title lmao.
Yeah I think the comparison between Jericho & Hogan/X-Pac isn’t quite right. As you note, rather than being an old passed it being pushed as the main event, he’s an old passed it being pushed as a feature mid-carder. He’s definitely not my cup of tea and he’s on TV more than I would care for but it could be a lot worse.