Last Updated on January 11, 2024
Retired professional wrestler Bret “The Hitman” Hart remembers President Donald Trump, back when Trump hosted Wrestlemania 4 and 5 in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1988 and 1989 at the Boardwalk Hall next to the Trump Plaza casino.
“Well actually I remember quite a bit about it. I remember Donald Trump was actually a really big fan of wrestling,” Bret Hart recalled, noting that Trump followed wrestling closely and was particularly impressed with turnbuckle maneuvers.
“I think Donald Trump was enough of a fan that when I took a good front turnbuckle it stood out in his mind because I remember meeting him in the back after, at the end of the show, and he treated me really well. He came up and suggested we get a picture together, and we got a picture with him,” Bret Hart said.
“I remember the next year, when I saw Donald Trump again, I didn’t think he’d pay any attention to me very much, but I remember he came up and he asked me, he goes, how’d that picture turn out last year? He goes, let’s get another one and we took another picture. So, I mean, my experience with Donald Trump back then, that he was always a bit of a fan and I think he had a lot of respect for the wrestlers,” Bret Hart stated.
Bret Hart said during the 2016 election that he was not a big political fan of either Trump or Hillary Clinton, calling Clinton dishonest. Bret Hart, always the people’s champ, said that a president must think about wealth inequality and the plight of the poor.
