The Rock has dropped huge hint over running for President amid claims he could succeed Donald Trump
Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson has already made his feelings clear on potentially running for President amid claims he could take over from Donald Trump.
Trump is in his second term in the White House after beating Kamala Harris in the Presidential Election last year. In line with the 22nd Amendment, the Constitution has a limit which means two terms is the absolute maximum a president can remain in power, though Trump has already mentioned the idea of running again for a third term in 2028.
The Rock is a man who has been consistently linked with the role given his enormous popularity and status. One of the famous men on the planet, the WWE icon and Hollywood movie star was the subject of a 2021 poll of 30,000 which highlighted the immense public support.
He called the outcome of that poll "interesting" and said he was "blown away" and "really honoured" to see it.
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Speaking on Trevor Noah’s new Spotify podcast What Now? in 2023, the 52-year-old claimed the result led to him receiving a visit from parties asking if he would "run" for president and found it to be "surreal".
He explained: “It was a big deal, and it came out of the blue. It was one after the other, and they brought up that poll, and they also brought up their own deep-dive research that would prove that should I ever go down that road [I’d be a real contender]. It was all very surreal because that’s never been my goal. My goal has never been to be in politics. As a matter of fact, there’s a lot about politics that I hate.”
While the TKO board member has issues with politics and the toxic nature of it, he did endorse Joe Biden and Harris for the 2020 election.
He has not closed the door on potentially moving into politics but admits that given the schedule and the strain, he would find it difficult and stressed that his priority is raising his young children.
"I've been asked and my honest answer is I have little ones at home, I'm a girl dad," Johnson said in a discussion with Valuetainment.
"Whether that it's a poll that has come out that a lot of people would vote or a conversation like this, it really moves me.
"I was a kid who had seven bucks in my pocket in 1995 to the potential, idea or conceit of this. It's really humbling. I''m a patriot like all of us in this room.
"As of now the most important thing for me is to be a daddy to my little girls.
"That kind of energy, that's a cesspool and it's hard for people to navigate through. I've got a an eight-year-old and a six-year-old and school drop-offs and pick-ups are so important to me. I've also got a 22-year-old daughter and I like to say we grew up together because I had her in my late twenties where I was on the go, wrestling 250 dates a year for years so I missed out.
"It was a brutal schedule. I missed out on a lot of her childhood and I know what it's like to have a job that takes you away. I do believe that job, president, will take me away.
"I'm not saying it can't be done, of course there were presidents who had little kids but when they're eight and six and I'm the male figure that they're going to be comparing other men to the rest of their life, this critical time I'm home with them."
While family life is most important to him, Johnson has various other film and TV ventures and still is heavily involved with WWE.
He recently aligned with a villainous John Cena in a shock turn at Elimination Chamber, with the 16-time champion taking on Cody Rhodes in his final WrestleMania bout.
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