The former wrestler, who supports Donald Trump, also made comments about the vice-president's racial identity.

Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan has joked about body slamming Vice-President Kamala Harris in front of a fired up crowd, and questioned her racial identity.

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“Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to one of his iconic wrestling moves.

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Hogan continued to make more comments about Ms Harris including one about her Indian heritage.

Kamala Harris is bi-racial - her mother was from India and her father is Jamaican.

“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?” Hogan asked the crowd, before using an outdated and stereotypical greeting associated with Native American Indians.

The video stops after he could be heard saying he “was going to get heat for that one”.

      • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
        41·
        2 months ago

        I never watched wrestling, but Andre seemed like a nice guy when I heard about him on the vince mcmahon behind the bastards. Hulk sounded like he sucked.

        • kmartburrito@lemmy.world
          24·
          2 months ago

          My dad used to run into him regularly when he worked as airport security in the 70s. He was a fantastic kind man with an incredible sense of humor. My dad had lots of good stories about him that he used to tell me about. So, another data point to back up your thinking.

        • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          I’ve never been a fan of wrestling but I loved Andre. From everything I’ve seen and heard, he was the nicest guy you could hope to meet. There are some great stories about him out there too. There’s video of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about a time when he and Andre were arguing over who would pay the check at a restaurant and Andre literally picked Arnold up and put him on a piece of furniture. And another similar occasion with Andre and Wilt Chamberlain. The Cary Elwes book, As You Wish, about the making of The Princess Bride has a lot of stories about Andre from the cast too. It’s well worth the read if you’re a fan of the movie.

    • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
      391·
      2 months ago

      Never meet your heroes - former hulkamaniac

      I was never much of a Hulkamanic, but I was a huge fan of the Ultimate Warrior who turned out to be a huge decroded piece of crap too. My all time favorite though was always Rowdy Roddy, and my second favorite was Da Maniac, but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        but the one time I met him he kept calling me the N-word and gave me a bucket of acorns.

        Is there any context to this? I’m genuinely curious.

        • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
          41·
          2 months ago

          Me and some friends were looking for a way to give back to the troops. So we decided to do a big wrestling thing. We got a hold of a local legend in the wrestling scene named Da Maniac. We were getting all the details ironed out for the show and he kept calling me the N-word. He also started to autograph parking tickets and tried giving them to us, plus it looked like he was living in his station wagon. He ended up getting arrested right before the show, so we had to do our own thing. We tried this whole eagle/bird of prey tag team thing. But I think we came off more like pigeons than as eagles. But we got another friend from school to wrestle against us. He showed up in this racist Arab costume and called himself the tali-bum (he was homeless at the time).

  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
    106·
    2 months ago

    For anyone who isn’t a wrestling fan, Hogan is universally hated by most fans and people in the business these days. He’s a racist, a backstabber, union buster, sexual deviant, and a pathological liar. He will lie about the most easily disproved bullshit. He’s a perfect example of Trump’s fanbase.

    • macarthur_park@lemmy.world
      655·
      2 months ago

      This is not politics.

      As much as I want to agree with you, this guy was one of the key speakers at the RNC. He’s the embodiment of the Republican party’s political discourse.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3914·
      2 months ago

      Do better MicroWave, one less post an hour won’t hurt ya.

      Damn, man. Beggars can’t be choosers. How much content do you submit to keep this community active? Just down-vote and move on. No need to make it personal.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2814·
          2 months ago

          See that’s just it, I’m not the one criticizing submitters.

          Throwing peanuts from the peanut gallery is easy. Being the change you want to see isn’t. Start submitting to this community and let’s see how you fair, Mr. 1-month-old account.

          You should take your own advice.

          Sometimes people need a taste of their own medicine.

          Edit: Definitely struck a nerve. I wonder, does Lemmy have vote manipulation detection?

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      This is not politics.

      Everything is politics in one way or another. In this case, it is explicitly political. Because the washed up, union busting snitch, pro wrestler and D-list actor is giving a political speech at a political convention for a major political party for the nomination of a politician.

      Like the only way it could be more political is if he was running himself.

  • OttoVonNoob@lemmy.ca
    35·
    2 months ago

    Notorious racist and wife beater Hulk Hogan, threatens to physically assault a black woman. Nope not surprised at all…

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      threatens to physically assault a black woman. the current vice president.

      I feel like that’s the bigger deal here.

  • ATDA@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 months ago

    He was like my AllMight as a kid.

    Fucking sad. I hate all that time wasted even as a hobby. Piece of crap.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 months ago

    Just a reminder, that while under oath in court, Hogan said this:

    Hulk Hogan has a 10 inch penis. Terry Bollea does not…no I do not have a 10 inch penis”

    Which is a really weird thing to have to clarify one of your lies in court. Essentially he’s saying his fictional character, whose penis you never need to think about, ever, is 10 inches. However he himself the real individual does not. And he was asked to clairify this because video surfaced of his best friend filming him having sex with his best friends wife. And his penis clearly wasn’t 10 inches.

  • paf0@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 months ago

    Not a surprising move from Peter Thiel’s best friend. Pretty much in line with what his puppet Vance said.