While speaking to Bert Kreischer, WWE Champion Cody Rhodes explained that he faced backlash for tweeting a GIF with the caption “January 6th, Bring it” on the same day the U.S. Capitol was attacked in 2021. Cody said he was unaware of what was happening at the time and was simply promoting the season premiere of Go-Big Show on TBS…
“So the Capitol riots were January 6, right? So I don’t know if this actually relates to Go Big Show, but we debuted the second season on January 6, and it lives in infamy. Especially because I try not to be on social as much, but I can still get pretty gotten-to about a moment here and there. But I put a GIF of me in the ring going like this, ‘Come on,’ and all I wrote was ‘January 6,’ and it’s me doing that. And I couldn’t explain it because not enough people watched Go Big Show. I can’t explain to them, ‘No, no, it was a show that we were doing.’
And it really checks the box because there’s a group of people that is just insistent on, ‘That guy’s clearly a Republican. He’s had a Trump hat before. He has a necktie. He’s from Georgia. He’s clearly—’ whereas my family is super moderate, fairly a lifetime liberal family. We’ve been all over the map. But those people — there’s no way I’m convincing them. I mean, it’s the US flag on the side of my neck. It would be a waste of my time to try and say, ‘Hey, I think a little differently than you perceive.’ But okay, you know.”
“I’m very moderate. So that means I have no voice. Like no voice.”