On stage, Hogan raged about the moment “when they took a shot at my hero” (this was shortly after the July 13, 2024 attempt on Trump’s life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania) and asked the baying crowd: “What are you gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you, brother?”
Not long after his RNC appearance, Hogan suggested that President-elect Trump might give him a role in his administration. Speaking to Fox News, Hogan said Trump had told him at an event in New York: “You know something, you’d be great to run the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.”
Trump ultimately didn’t give Hogan the job but did promote the wrestler’s Real American Beer brand on his Truth Social network, even though the tycoon doesn’t drink alcohol. “Hulk Hogan is doing a beer, and if he’s doing it, it must be good. Great looking can and logo. Give it a try!!!” he wrote. Hogan launched the beer not long after Bud Light faced a conservative backlash for sponsoring an Instagram post by a transgender influencer.
While they encountered each other of late in the political sphere, Trump and Hogan’s paths would have crossed many years earlier.
Trump famously appeared at WWE’s flagship Wrestlemania 23 in 2007. Hogan wasn’t with the company at the time, but was a star in 1988 and 1989 and performed at Wrestlemanias 4 and 5, both of which Trump hosted in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Hogan for president!
Hogan once had presidential ambitions of his own (kinda).