The Undertaker will reportedly grill Donald Trump this week after agreeing to appear as a guest on the WWE legend’s podcast.
Trump, 78, is ramping up as much media coverage as possible ahead of next month’s presidential election, when he will face Kamala Harris for the top White House job.
And in his bid to defeat Harris and resume the presidency, the Republican leader will look to win over the wrestling community when he joins The Undertaker, real name Mark Calaway, on his ‘Six Feet Under’ podcast.
According to political reporter Alex Isenstadt, via @WrestleOpsCalaway will interview Trump on his podcast sometime this week.
The former president, who attacked Kamala’s career this week, has a long history with WWE after performing at several shows amid his close relationship with co-founder Vince McMahon.
The Undertaker will reportedly grill Donald Trump on the WWE icon’s podcast
He even played a key role in a WrestleMania 23 storyline in 2007, besting McMahon in a Battle of the Billionaires competition that led to the former WWE boss shaving his head.
Wrestling great Hulk Hogan also appeared at the Republican National Convention over the summer to endorse him.
However, Trump clearly does not have the support of everyone associated with the world-famous wrestling promotion.
Former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista took aim at the American mogul and mocked him as weak and overweight in a video on Jimmy Kimmel’s show this week.
‘Is he the strong Alpha Man that many voters believe him to be? No, according to one of the toughest guys I know, he’s not,” Kimmel said when introducing the sketch after saying that “young, straight, white men love Donald Trump” and “see him as a ‘macho, macho ‘.
It all started in a boxing ring, where Bautista showed off his physical prowess and declared, “Friends, we need to talk.”
“Many men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not.
Trump has a long history with WWE after appearing at several events in the past.
The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, will question him sometime this week.
Former WWE star Dave Bautista mocked Trump as part of a sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Then he ran through a series of one-liners. ‘Look at it. She wears more makeup than Dolly Parton,” Bautista said, as the camera showed a tanned image of Trump.
He says that “the guy is afraid of birds” and “he asked his dad to pay a doctor to tell him that his feet hurt so he could avoid mandatory military service,” referring to the bone spurs that left him. They kept them out of Vietnam but they have not prevented it. outside the golf courses.
The video shows unflattering images of Trump’s “guts,” which he compares to a “garbage bag full of buttermilk.”
Other jokes address Trump’s challenges with an umbrella, the superhero-style trading cards he sells, and his challenges drinking from very small water bottles, to laughter from the Jimmy Kimmel Live crowd.
That contrasts with Bautista, who played Drax in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, performing various feats of strength while ranting that Trump “cheats at golf” and has “jugs, big ones, like Dolly Parton.”
Some of the insults are not appropriate for all ages, but Bautista also says that he is “in a bad mood, pouts, throws tantrums” and “bows down to Putin.”
Bautista called Trump ‘chubby’ and compared him to singer Dolly Parton in the sketch
The joke drew laughter from the studio audience, but it takes on a vulnerability that is quite serious for Kamala Harris: the erosion of support among men.
It’s part of the landscape of an election in which the candidate seeking to be the first female president faces off against Trump, who is making the champion of “fight, fight, fight” and surviving an assassin’s bullet a central part of his effort for re-election.
Trump has long touted the prowess of the U.S. military, saying he eliminated a top Iranian military leader and accusing his rivals of being “weak” or “losers.” Their convention featured Hulk Hogan, and their rallies featured James Brown’s “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.”
He has a 10-point lead among men in the latest Wall Street Journal poll. Harris is gaining a strong lead among women, and abortion is becoming a top issue.