10 Most Shameless WWE Promotional Tactics
7. Stand Up For WWE
Linda McMahon ran two separate high profile and very expensive campaigns to become a U.S Senator, losing two general elections in 2010 and 2012.
These facts didn't matter to the 2016 Trump Administration when she was employed in a top role, but they did to WWE as it absorbed grief for some of the truly rotten sh*t it had peddled over the decades. Taking McMahon to task for some of her more outlandish moments as a character, a media with bit between its teeth revisited her involvement in the accusations and events that lead to Vince McMahon's 1993 steroid distribution indictment and 1994 federal trial.
The closeted skeletons were only so obscured because nobody typically respects wrestling enough to apply forensic scrutiny. Unsurprisingly not seeing it that way, Vince McMahon appeared on television to beg fans themselves to resist the negative attention.
Swearing up and down that all they do is put smiles on faces, McMahon asked acolytes to use social media and other outlets to fight the company's fight. Attempting to turn supposed smears on them into attacks on the fans, it was cynical manipulation of the most loyal corners of the audience. Dropped like a stone from the moment she lost, naturally.