A former WWE star has claimed that part of a segment with Donald Trump was cut because he did not want to look scared.
Long before he became the President of the United States, Donald Trump took part in an onscreen rivalry with Vince McMahon in WWE. The feud culminated in the ‘Battle of the Billionaires’ at WrestleMania 23, with Bobby Lashley representing Trump against McMahon’s champion, Umaga.
Ahead of the match, Trump was seen in a backstage segment with The Boogeyman, who has revealed that not everything filmed made it onto the show. In a new interview with Going Ringside, Boogeyman explained that Trump didn’t want to look scared, so the end of the segment was cut.
“He and Vince are friends, as you know. But I got to tell you, in that segment, when I come up from behind the couch, and he had also Miss America there as well, and she ran off. But being Donald, Mr. Trump, President Trump, as he is, he didn’t want to be frightened.
“So he’s talking about how this place is a circus. True enough, But he didn’t want to sell my character. No, yeah, he didn’t want to sell my character. So he said, ‘go make me a sandwich,’ and, you know, you see me walk off screen, but then I came back and I grabbed him by the collar and I said, ‘how about a worm sandwich?’ They cut that. They cut it because he did not want to show fear. Well, no, he didn’t want to look scared of me. He didn’t want to show that he was frightened.”
Boogeyman was aware that Trump’s refusal to show fear was bad for the character, but he got in trouble for trying to make it work.
“But this is a true story. Yeah, and I grabbed him and I came back because Vince wants this character to be the Boogeyman, and in all actuality, I got somewhat in trouble for that, or he for it, because I allowed him to not show fearfulness, which almost kills the character. Do you understand? But anyway, that’s how it went. But I was very fortunate. I can say that I actually met the president before he was president.”
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H/T to Fightful for the above transcription.
