Donald Trump will reportedly be grilled by The Undertaker 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 battle it out with Kamala Harris for the top White House job.
And in his bid to get the better of Harris and reassume the presidency, the Republican leader will look to win over the wrestling community when he joins The Undertaker – whose real name is Mark Calaway – on his ‘Six Feet Under’ podcast.
According to Politico Reporter Alex Isenstadt, via @WrestleOps, Calaway is set to interview Trump on his podcast at some point this week.
The former president – who doubled down on attacking Kamala’s race this week – has a long history with the WWE after featuring at several shows amid his close relationship with co-founder Vince McMahon.
Donald Trump is reportedly set to be grilled by The Undertaker on the WWE icon’s podcast
He even played a key role in a storyline at WrestleMania 23 back in 2007, getting the better of McMahon in a Battle of the Billionaires contest which led to the ex-WWE chief having his head shaved.
Wrestling great Hulk Hogan also appeared at the Republican National Convention over the summer to endorse him.
However, Trump clearly doesn’t have the support of everyone associated with the world-famous wrestling promotion.
Former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista took aim at the American tycoon and mocked him as weak and overweight in a video on Jimmy Kimmel’s show this week.
‘Is he the strong Alpha Man many voters believe him to be? Not according to one of the toughest guys I know, he isn’t,’ said Kimmel as he introduced the sketch after saying ‘young, straight, white men love Donald Trump’ and ‘see him as a ‘macho, macho man.’
It began in a boxing ring, where Bautista showed off his physical prowess and declared, ‘Fellas, we got to talk.’
‘A lot of men seem to think that Donald Trump is some kind of tough guy. He’s not.’
Trump has a long history with the WWE after appearing at several events in the past
The Undertaker, whose real name is Mark Calaway, will be grilling him at some point this week
Former WWE star Dave Bautista mocked Trump as part of a sketch on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Then he went through a series of one-liners. ‘Look at him. He wears more makeup than Dolly Parton,’ Bautista said, as the camera cut to a bronzed image of Trump.
He says ‘the guy’s afraid of birds,’ and ‘had his daddy pay a doctor to say his little feet hurt so he could dodge the draft’ – a reference to the bone spurs that kept him out of Vietnam but haven’t kept him off the golf links.
The video shows unflattering images of Trump’s ‘gut,’ which he compares to a ‘garbage bag full of buttermilk.’
Other jokes take on Trump’s challenges with an umbrella, the super hero-esque trading cards he hawks, and his challenges sipping from very small bottles of water, to laughs from the Jimmy Kimmel Live crowd.
That gets contrasted 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 aren’t appropriate for all ages, but Bautista also says he’s ‘moody, he pouts, he throws tantrums’ and ‘bends over for Putin.’
Bautista called Trump ‘tubby’ and compared him to singer Dolly Parton in the sketch
The gag earned laughs in the studio audience, but takes on an vulnerability that is quite serious for Kamala Harris: the erosion of support among men.
It is part of the landscape of an election where the candidate seeking to be the first woman president is taking on Trump, who is making the ‘fight, fight, fight’ champ and surviving an assassin’s bullet a central part of his reelection effort.
Trump has long brandished the prowess of the U.S. military, saying he took out a top Iranian military leader and accused rivals of being ‘weak’ or ‘losers.’ His convention featured Hulk Hogan, and his rallies feature James Brown’s ‘It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.’
He holds a 10-point lead among men in the latest Wall Street Journal poll. Harris is building up a strong lead among women, with abortion rising as a top issue.
