Mick Foley addresses his decision to leave WWE because of the company’s association with Donald Trump

So for me, it was the comments about Rob Reiner, just heartless and unbelievably cruel comments coming from the most powerful man in the world finding joy in how somebody died. I don’t wanna paraphrase, but belittling the man who just died, somehow tying it into his own death, into, you know, Reiner’s dislike of Donald Trump. And for me, that was the ball-peen hammer tap that broke the windshield.

And I just think WWE had a very cozy relationship where there was definitely the illusion of a relationship there, the perception rather. I think when 5 different people are posing in the Oval Office and they’ve all received Stone Cold Stunners, that’s a little cozy. And Ariel, I felt like even though I wasn’t technically employed by the company, but because I had a Legends deal, because my name’s been associated with WWE for over 30 years, that I was complicit in my silence and so I did speak up.

I made the move that I felt was right for me. I love that company. I’m not going to disparage them, but it didn’t seem like a good fit. Didn’t seem like a fit that would allow me to look at myself in the mirror before I went to bed.”

I’m not here to talk politics, let’s skip this after here, but it is the reason I left WWE.

I just want to tell people who are listening that it’s never too late to do the right thing. The best time to have made your voice heard would have been earlier, but the second best time is now. And if this guy, President of the United States, ratings dip into the teens, then maybe he’ll be forced to make some changes. Nobody wants to go down as the worst president in the history of this country.

So maybe I’m naive, but maybe you can appeal, if there are better angels of his nature, maybe they can still be appealed to. But I’m not so sure there are. He’s definitely a different type of person, and I don’t mean that in a good way.”