{"id":22103,"date":"2025-07-25T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22103\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T06:16:10","slug":"hulk-hogan-wrestling-legend-dies-aged-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/22103\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulk Hogan: Wrestling legend dies aged 71"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Obama to MAGA: Hulk Hogan’s changing political viewspublished at 19:08 British Summer Time 24 July<\/p>\n

19:08 BST 24 July<\/p>\n

\"HulkImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Hulk Hogan at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin last year<\/p>\n

For the 2008 US presidential election, Hulk Hogan endorsed Barack Obama, who would go on to become the first black US president.<\/p>\n

But just three years later, like his shirts, Hulk Hogan had ripped apart this support.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a big Obama supporter and kinda believed everything he said he was gonna do,\u201d Hogan told Fox News in 2011. But Obama hadn’t delivered on his campaign promises, he said. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Obama to MAGA: Hulk Hogan’s changing political viewspublished at 19:08 British Summer Time 24 July 19:08 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}