Mick Foley is severing ties with WWE amid the corporate’s alleged assist of President Donald Trump, calling the president’s latest feedback concerning the late Rob Reiner the “final straw.”
Foley, 60, introduced his choice to half methods with WWE on Tuesday, December 16, explaining by way of Instagram that he’s been “involved” concerning the WWE’s “shut relationship with Donald Trump for a number of months.”
The retired wrestler stated his issues grew “in gentle of [the Trump] administration’s ongoing merciless and inhumane remedy of immigrants (and just about anybody who ‘seems to be like an immigrant’).”
The turning level, nevertheless, got here after Foley stated he learn the president’s “extremely merciless feedback within the wake of Rob Reiner’s dying,” stating it “is the ultimate straw for me.”
UPDATE — 12/15/25, 4:52 p.m. ET: President Donald Trump is doubling down on his earlier crucial feedback about Rob Reiner after the director was murdered in his dwelling on Sunday, December 14. Whereas addressing the media on Monday, December 15, a reporter requested Trump, 79, if he stood by his remarks about Reiner after a number of […]
Rob and his spouse, Michele Singer Reiner, have been discovered lifeless of their dwelling on Sunday, December 14, after being murdered.
Us Weekly later confirmed that the couple’s 32-year-old son Nick Reiner was arrested on a homicide cost and held with out bail. On Tuesday, the Los Angeles District Lawyer’s workplace introduced that Nick was formally charged with two counts of first-degree homicide and might be dealing with life in jail with out parole or the dying penalty, ought to he be discovered responsible.
As Hollywood mourned the deaths of the director and his longtime partner, who have been 78 and 68, respectively, Trump, 79, issued an announcement that seemingly pointed Rob’s alleged issues with him as the rationale he was killed.
“A really unhappy factor occurred final evening in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, however as soon as very gifted film director and comedy star, has handed away, collectively along with his spouse, Michele, reportedly as a result of anger he prompted others by his huge, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a thoughts crippling illness often called TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, typically known as TDS,” Trump wrote by way of his Reality Social platform on Monday.
He continued: “He was identified to have pushed folks CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, along with his apparent paranoia reaching new heights because the Trump Administration surpassed all targets and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, maybe like by no means earlier than. Might Rob and Michele relaxation in peace!”
Within the wake of the controversial feedback, Foley revealed on Tuesday that “now not” needs to “signify an organization that coddles a person so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our nation in direction of autocracy.”
By no means one to carry again, Stephen A. Smith unleashed an impassioned rant in opposition to President Donald Trump over his response to the deaths of Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele Singer Reiner. “The President selecting to touch upon their passing in a disrespectful, acerbic and disgusting method is beneath the workplace of the presidency,” Smith, 58, […]
Foley shared, “Final evening, I knowledgeable @WWE expertise relations that I’d not be making any appearances for the corporate so long as this man stays in workplace. Moreover, I cannot be signing a brand new Legends deal when my present one expires in June.”
He famous, “I like WWE, will at all times treasure my time with them, and I’m deeply appreciative for all of the alternatives they afforded me. However, within the phrases of Popeye the sailor, ‘I stands all I can stands, and I can’t stands no extra.’”
Us Weekly has reached out to WWE for remark.
Foley is a retired skilled wrestler, comic and creator. Throughout his time within the area, Foley glided by Cactus Jack from 1991 to 1996. He famously wore cowboy books and used gadgets resembling barbed wire throughout his matches.
Rob Reiner and spouse Michele Singer Reiner had a rocky historical past with President Donald Trump. Michele crossed paths with Trump earlier than she married Rob. Throughout her time as a photographer, she labored with Trump on the duvet of his ebook The Artwork of the Deal, which was revealed in 1987. Two years later, Michele and […]
He made his WWE debut in 1996 as Mankind, taking over the ring persona of Dude Love the next 12 months. Cactus Jack made his return in 1997 as effectively and Foley fought as all three throughout 1998’s Royal Rumble.
The four-time world champion was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013, one 12 months after retiring from wrestling. Foley, nevertheless, has maintained his affiliation with WWE, working because the Uncooked Common Supervisor from 2016 to 2017 and making appearances on WWE Uncooked for years.
Trump, in the meantime, has had a longstanding relationship with the WWE, specifically former CEO and Chairman of the Board Vince McMahon, who resigned in 2024 after allegations of sexual assault. (McMahon has denied the allegations and the federal prosecutors dropped the felony investigation in February.)
Previous to changing into president, Trump made a number of appearances on WWE applications and was inducted into the WWE Corridor of Fame in 2013 as a star honoree.
Presently, WWE Chief Content material Officer Paul Michael Levesque — often called Triple H — serves as a part of the president’s health council.
