10 Reasons WWE Should Remove Donald Trump From Hall Of Fame

9. Negative Press

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There’s an old adage that goes “There’s no such thing as bad press”. But WWE might want to consider its standing as a publicly traded, family entertainment company when it comes to Donald Trump.

Current WWE executive Triple H dry humping a mannequin to simulate necrophilia is distasteful and horrid in today’s world, but at least Hunter can note that it was just part of a storyline. Trump saying he doesn’t like war veterans who get caught and become POWs… that’s not him playing a character.

And for those who don’t think that Trump is being connected to WWE, a simple Google search for news articles from the past month yielded this piece detailing Trump’s connection to the company, this article chronicling the Battle of the Billionaires, and a New York Daily News piece that summed up the relationship thusly:

“And he’s had a long romance with World Wrestling Entertainment, whose lowest-common-denominator insults, cartoonish machismo and fake fighting were a perfect precursor to his presidential run”.

Maybe there is such a thing as bad press.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.