{"id":447899,"date":"2026-05-14T04:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447899\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:53:17","slug":"wrestling-with-trump-review-playful-and-disturbing-look-at-how-trump-lifted-his-bulldozer-style-from-wrestlings-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/447899\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wrestling with Trump\u2019 review: Playful and disturbing look at how Trump lifted his bulldozer style from wrestling\u2019s playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wrestling fan Munya Chawawa links the US president\u2019s vulgarity, macho posturing and violent language to WWE\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donald Trump goes hair to hair in the ring with WWE founder Vince McMahon in a staged publicity event in 2007. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a204f2f5-3954-4d2d-be4d-d5f34e31deff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Donald Trump goes hair to hair in the ring with WWE founder Vince McMahon in a staged publicity event in 2007. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Munya Chawawa, the British-Zimbabwean comedian, has always been an avid wrestling fan. He still has the big bag full of WWE action figures he collected as a child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Alas, his documentary Wrestling With Trump (Channel 4, Tuesday, May 12, streaming on Channel4.com), which is at once playful and disturbing, doesn\u2019t see him climb into the ring to fight the US president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wrestling fan Munya Chawawa links the US president\u2019s vulgarity, macho posturing and violent language to WWE Donald Trump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[969,93,61,60,9617],"class_list":["post-447899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pat-stacey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}