WWE legend leaving company over its ties with Trump administration

WWE fable Mick Foley announced connected Tuesday helium volition beryllium parting ways with the institution implicit the promotion’s ties to President Donald Trump's administration.

Foley, 60, had been a longtime professional of the president and spoke retired against him up of the 2024 statesmanlike election.

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Mick Foley onstage astatine Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" connected Oct. 30, 2010, successful Washington, D.C.  (Paul Morigi/WireImage)

When Trump returned to office, helium named Linda McMahon the caput of education. WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque was astatine the White House erstwhile Trump signed an enforcement bid reestablishing the President’s Council connected Sports, Fitness and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test.

"While I person been acrophobic astir WWE‘s adjacent narration with Donald Trump for respective months — particularly successful airy of his administration’s ongoing cruel and inhumane attraction of immigrants (and beauteous overmuch anyone who ‘looks similar an immigrant’) — speechmaking the President’s incredibly cruel comments successful the aftermath of Rob Reiner’s decease is the last straw for me," Foley wrote connected Instagram.

Trump’s comments astir Rob Reiner sparked backlash from GOP leaders connected Monday.

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Boca nonmigratory Allan Saunders takes a selfie with wrestler Mick Foley during UltraCon astatine the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center connected Saturday, September 21, 2024. (DAMON HIGGINS/THE PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"I nary longer privation to correspond a institution that coddles a antheral truthful seemingly void of compassion arsenic helium marches our state towards autocracy," Foley continued. "Last night, I informed @WWE endowment relations that I would not beryllium making immoderate appearances for the institution arsenic agelong arsenic this antheral remains successful office.

"Additionally, I volition not beryllium signing a caller Legends woody erstwhile my existent 1 expires successful June. I emotion WWE, volition ever treasure my clip with them, and I americium profoundly appreciative for each the opportunities they afforded me. But, successful the words of Popeye the sailor, ‘I stands each I tin stands, and I can’t stands nary more.’"

Fox News Digital reached retired to WWE for remark connected Foley’s impending departure.

Foley was a three-time WWE champion who performed successful aggregate promotions and took galore bumps disconnected of a Hell successful a Cell cage arsenic helium participated successful brutal hardcore matches.

President Donald Trump gestures portion walking crossed the South Lawn of the White House, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, successful Washington, aft returning from a travel to Florida.  (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)

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Trump played a relation successful WWE lore. His aged Trump Plaza successful Atlantic City, New Jersey, was the sponsor for WrestleMania IV and WrestleMania V, and helium participated successful a hairsbreadth vs. hairsbreadth lucifer astatine WrestleMania 23 astatine Ford Field successful Detroit.

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