Trump-A-Mania: The Surprising Alliance Between Donald Trump and Hulk Hogan

Unless you’re living under a rock, you know that Donald J. Trump is, once again, running for POTUS. Politics has always made for strange bedfellows. But, Trump has taken that old premise to another level.

Donald Trump defines our traditional American businessman. Just as was Carnegie, Rockefeller or J. P. Morgan, he is, by nature, conservative in his behavior, well-dressed, well-disciplined and highly capable. He exemplifies the kind of man the world of business embraces and values.

So how do you explain retired, flamboyant, professional wrestler Hulk Hogan’s demonstrative support for Trump?

There were never stranger bedfellows. There is nothing conservative about Hogan’s attire. He certainly is not well-dressed or well-disciplined. And although he was a very capable wrestler, those are hardly the same kinds of capabilities Trump possesses. They appear, on the surface, to share nothing.

But, after watching Hulk Hogan give his speech at the RNC last month it’s obvious that Donald Trump and Hulk Hogan share one of the most important qualities that bonds American men, from all walks of life, together.

They both love God and love this country. And, they are both defined by the high standards set by others to, absolutely, qualify as heroic All-Americans and, they are both winners!

Granted, Hogan is an entertainer and performer, but he also values the American Dream, and all it stands for, because he exemplifies it. He was born Terry Bollea in Augusta, Georgia in 1953 and is of Italian, Scottish and French descent. He was a toddler when his family moved to Florida. His father was a construction foreman and his mother was a homemaker and taught dance. He played baseball in high school, loved attending professional wrestling at Tampa Sportatorium and played the fretless bass guitar too. Once he started college at University of South Florida he found his music gigs were interfering with college. So, he quit college and started his own band, with 2 friends, called Ruckus. But, despite their local success, he was still drawn to professional wrestling.

At 6’-7”, and 305 pounds, with 24” biceps, you’d think getting into professional wrestling would be a no-brainer for Hogan. But, it took 5 years of off-again, on-again training and taking part in many meets before his won his first championship in December 1979. The rest is history.

The fame and wealth that followed Hogan’s success is a true testament to the fact that the American Dream was alive and well while he was building his career. But today, Hogan, like Trump, worry that without changing the current course of leftist inroads into American politics, those same opportunities will never be available to their grandchildren.

Hogan said during his RNC speech that throughout his career he never talked about politics publicly. But he also said he’d never experienced a complete reversal, and corruption, of the American ideals he’d grown up with, until the current administration came on the scene.

Hulk Hogan has known Donald Trump for 35 years, mainly because Trump has always been a fan of professional wrestling. And Hogan finally realized that it was time for him to speak up and support the man he has admired for all those years. Hogan called Trump “His Hero’, which is saying a lot coming from a man whose success has come to define the word “winning”.

At the end of his speech the Hulk tore open his black T-shirt to reveal a red “Trump Vance” guinea tee!