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Jaxson Ryker says there was ‘nothing wrong’ with his Tweet about Donald Trump

Aaron Rift

During an appearance on the Wrestling For The Faith podcast, former WWE star Jaxson Ryker addressed his Tweet in support of Donald Trump that led to the Forgotten Sons being pulled from WWE television. In June of 2020, Ryker wrote the following…

“Thankful for the @POTUS we have! God bless America. Built of freedom. Forgotten No More”

Here was what Ryker had to say about the Tweet…

“You know, I wasn’t one of those who was trying to bash anybody else. I was simply putting out my support for a president that I thought was doing a good job for this country. Gas prices were down, unemployment was down, jobs were up. So much going on, that the economy was flourishing. You can do the studies and look at it. And that was just my tweet, to basically show my support which the funny thing is prior to that, Lord, I mean, even I was looking through some history of things. I mean, I would tweet or Instagram certain things about Donald Trump. But for some reason that day, and I believe you touched on it before we started some things that were going on in America at the time, I tweeted my support for him before. So to me, there was nothing wrong with that tweet, there was no racial undertone. There was no jabs, there was nothing but me saying God bless America, and thankful for the President of the United States that we had at the time. And like I said, I served four years in the Marine Corps from ’02 to ’06. Does that give me a right to be an idiot on social media and go out and say stupid stuff? Absolutely not. But does it give me a right to support a president that I voted for? I do believe it was and look, we’ve never talked about it. First time right here, people getting a chance to hear about it. I’m excited to kind of let it out. But I could see if there was something wrong with that tweet but in my eyes, I said nothing wrong and so that’s where I stand on it man.”

Ryker talked about the backlash he received from the Tweet…

“I’m sitting on my couch and within a matter of — I’m gonna say 15 minutes, my phone starts to just blow up. I start to get random phone calls from random numbers. I’m like, what’s going on? And my wife goes ‘what, what’s going on with your phone?’ I mean, literally, it’s like the end of the world had happened. Within a matter of an hour or so I’m getting death threats. I’m getting cell phone calls. If I can number the amount of voicemails that came over my phone from that time it happened for at least a good week. Well over 100 voicemails [and] people threatening my family, my address within a matter of an hour or so was tweeted out. My new address. People were saying they were gonna come burn down my house. People said they were gonna come murder my family. Dude, it was the most extreme thing I’ve ever been through to the point of the old Chad back in his 20s wanting to come out, you know what I mean?”

“There was certain, quote unquote friends who would text me or call me and one of them who I respect and still do [and] worked with him many times, he told me he was disappointed and I called him and I said, ‘why are you disappointed in me?’ I said, ‘this is my views, not like I said anything wrong.’ And he was just like, ‘I just expected more from you.’ And I’m like, ‘because I don’t support who you support. You know, that’s what you’re talking about here, dude.’ It’s like, these cancel culture, folks, and you see it in Hollywood all the time. You know, certain actors getting canceled because somebody they support or things they stand for, whether it be anti-abortion or whatever, but the same ones who were screaming, you know, my body my choice, like, oh, I can go murder a baby. They’re the same ones over here going, ‘Oh, you need to get this vaccine or you need to do this.’ But so what are we doing here? We’re just dividing the country, man and we’ve seen that over the past few years.” (quotes courtesy of WrestlingNews.co)