Dwayne Johnson will not endorse any presidential candidate this year, he confirmed during an interview with Fox News. It's a change of pace for celebrities, who publicly endorsed Joe Biden for president during the 2020 election.
“The endorsement I did years ago for Biden was a decision I thought was the best decision for me at the time,” Johnson said. “I thought: I'm in this position where I have some influence and I felt like it was my job then to exert my influence [and] Share: This is the one I would support. I will not do that. I was then, the most followed man in the world, and I am today, and I appreciate that…but what it caused was something that was tearing me apart – a split. This happened to me. I didn't realize it at the time, I felt like there was a lot of unrest and I wanted things to calm down.
“The bottom line then is that it has caused an incredible amount of division,” Johnson continued. I realize now that I will run in this election, and I will not do so. My goal is to unite this country. I believe in that. There will be no endorsement. At this level of influence, I'll keep my politics to myself. It's between me and the ballot box. But I will tell you this: Like many of us out there, I don't trust all politicians, I trust the American people and whoever they will vote for is my president and who I will support 100 percent.
Fox News' Will Kaine asked Johnson if he was happy with the state of America, and Johnson replied: “No.”
“Today’s cancel culture, woke culture, divisiveness, etc. — that’s what really bothers me,” Johnson said. “In the spirit of that, you either give in to that and be what other people want you to be, or you can be yourself and be real…and that might piss people off and make them angry, and that's okay.”
Johnson also said he was still not interested in running for president himself, explaining: “No, that's not my intention. I'm not a politician.”
Johnson first floated the idea of running for president in 2017, when he said so exclusively diverse that it was a “realistic consideration” for 2024. In a 2022 interview with “CBS Mornings,” he said running for president was “off the table” because “I love being a father and that's the most important thing to me being a father.” Dad, number one, especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters' lives.
“With my 22-year-old daughter, Simone, we like to say we grew up together,” Johnson said on The Trevor Noah Show on Spotify. last year. “I know what it's like to be in a career that took me away. As a full-time professional wrestler, I was wrestling 230 dates a year for years when she came into the world. So I know what it's like to have that disconnect and not be there for birthdays, pick-ups, drop-offs And everything else. And I don't want that for my little kids now.
In the same podcast, Johnson revealed that several political parties contacted him in 2022 to ask if he would run for president after Noah reported that a 2021 political poll claimed that 46% of American adults would support Johnson's bid for president.
“This was an interesting survey and I was really impressed by it,” Johnson said. “I was truly amazed and truly honoured. I will share this little bit with you: At the end of 2022, I had a visit from the parties asking me if I would run, and if I could run.”
“It was a big deal, and it just came out of the blue,” Johnson continued. “It was one by one, they put out this survey, and they also put out their in-depth research that would prove that if I went down this path [I’d be a real contender]. It was very surreal because that was never my goal. It was never my goal to be in politics. “In fact, there is a lot that I hate about politics.”
Watch Johnson's full interview with Fox News in the video below.
