From Obama to MAGA: Hulk Hogan’s changing political viewspublished at 19:08 British Summer Time
Image source, Getty ImagesHulk Hogan at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin last year
For the 2008 US presidential election, Hulk Hogan endorsed Barack Obama, who would go on to become the first black US president.
But just three years later, like his shirts, Hulk Hogan had ripped apart this support.
“I was a big Obama supporter and kinda believed everything he said he was gonna do,” Hogan told Fox News in 2011. But Obama hadn’t delivered on his campaign promises, he said.
Hogan was also unhappy about Obama opening his 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner speech with Hulk Hogan’s “Real American” song. It was tongue-in-cheek: As the song played, screens showed a copy of Obama’s birth certificate proving that he was born in 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 hard turn towards Trump, endorsing him then, and again in 2020. He even floated the idea of being Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, and even contemplated running for the White House too.
Last year, he took to the stage at the Republican National Convention, where he once again endorsed Trump, days after he had survived an assassination attempt.
“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 said.
“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.”
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