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.

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

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 Hogan asked the crowd, before using an outdated and stereotypical greeting associated with Native American Indians.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”.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Remember when Hulk used to rip his shirt off, and he didn’t have to cover his gross old body with another shirt?

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    1 month ago

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

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    1 month ago

    Mr Hogan has hit his head one time too many. Go take a nap grandpa!

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      1 month ago

      Just to make things clear:

      hogan did not have a high flying style where he was constantly being spiked on his head. Even his famously “amazing” wrestling in Japan was basically just a bit of grappling and submission work.

      This is not something like benoit where an infamously violent and impulsive bully suffered enough concussions (and steroid abuse) that he snapped and murdered his family.

      No. hogan’s debilitating injuries and constant pain is because he kept jumping up and landing on his tailbone. His stupidity?

      He is just really fucking stupid and always has been.

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        1 month ago

        So you’re telling me he’s had it super hard in his rear so often it’s messed up his head? That checks out!

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    1 month ago

    you know… I bet Kamala could actually take him in a fight. just saying.

    what a despicable piece of trash, though. I feel like these comments are worth a visit from the Secret Service or FBI or whoever handles threats to VP’s/Pres Candidates.

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    1 month ago

    He tried for Kamela Chameleon and instead discovered the Karma chameleon: Hulk’s has definitely come and gone.

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      1 month 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.

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        1 month 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.

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          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).

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            1 month ago

            Thank you for the context, though coming back to this, I got no closure on the acorns. What was that not about?

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        1 month 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.

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          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.

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          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.