It wasn't solely because of politics.
Jimmy Hart says he was worried Hulk Hogan would get booed at the RAW Netflix premiere:
“I told Hulk before we went. I love you, Hulkster, but I’m gonna tell the truth on this. Here's what happened. He wore a Trump-Vance t-shirt when we did some preach gaga googoo stuff. I said, ‘You know where we’re going? We’re going to California.’ And like I said before, I’m not a Democrat or Republican. I’m just a jabroni. But here’s the deal. I said, ‘I don’t like this’. ‘Jimmy, don’t worry about it.’ I went, ‘Okay’.
We get out of the van there, nice town car picks up there. Some fans go, ‘Hulk, we loved you, but you love them. We don’t like you anymore.’ I said ‘Hulk, I don’t feel good about this’. ‘Jimmy, don’t worry about it.’ Okay. We go in the back, but I’m worrying about it. So we’re in the back and Hulk goes, ‘Jimmy Hart, what do you think?’ He’d always ask before we do something. And I just said, ‘No, everything’s good. Everything’s okay’.
We do the thing and all of a sudden, ‘Boo!’ And I went, ‘Uh-oh.’ I'm waving the heck out of the flag and it gets more and more and more. And I could see Hulk. I look over there and I'm going, ‘Okay, here we go.’ So we finish it and then we go in the back. Then Hulk calls me next day and goes, ‘Hey, the ratings were good on that segment we did.’ And I said, ‘Well I guess they should be because with all the commotion that happened on it, I guess we should have. But you kept telling me don’t worry about it. Well I was worried about it’. And he goes, ‘Jimmy, look, sometimes you got to do what you got to do. I’ve made my bed and I’ve got to lie in it. That’s who I wanted to vote for. That’s what I wanted to do.’ I knew in my heart going in there might be a catchy thing, but he knew it.”
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