Dwayne Johnson won’t endorse a presidential candidate because he caused too much division last time

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is just going to keep his political beliefs to himself now

By Mary Kate Carr  |  April 5, 2024 | 5:54pm
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Dwayne Johnson won’t endorse a presidential candidate because he caused too much division last time
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The Rock is back to wrestling and back to being apolitical. “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” Dwayne Johnson said in an interview with—yes—Fox News (via Variety). “I thought, ‘I’m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that… but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts—which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”

If you think about it, it’s so obviously true that it was The Rock’s endorsement that caused all this division in America. Before he weighed in on the whole Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden thing, these United States were actually united. You remember what 2020 was like—famously a time of great peace, prosperity, and harmony for all! If only Johnson had kept his mouth shut. This time around, “My goal is to bring this country together,” he stated, so “There will be no endorsement.”

Perhaps the Jungle Cruise’s silence really could save us all, though he’s not that quiet about what he doesn’t like about America right now: “Today’s cancel culture, woke culture, division, etc.—that really bugs me,” he said. “In the spirit of that, you either succumb to that and be what other people want you to be, or you be yourself and be real … and that might make people upset and piss people off, and that’s okay.”

You heard the Rock: Be real, but not so real that people might discern your actual political beliefs because that might cause division and hurt your box office numbers the great American experiment. “I do trust the American people,” Johnson professed, “and whoever they vote for that is my president and who I will support 100 percent.”

 
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