WWE legend leaving company over its ties with Trump administration

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WWE legend Mick Foley announced on Tuesday he will be parting ways with the company over the promotion’s ties to President Donald Trump's administration.

Foley, 60, had been a longtime critic of the president and spoke out against him ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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Mick Foley onstage at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on Oct. 30, 2010, in Washington, D.C.  (Paul Morigi/WireImage)

When Trump returned to office, he named Linda McMahon the secretary of education. WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque was at the White House when Trump signed an executive order reestablishing the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition and the Presidential Fitness Test.

"While I have been concerned about WWE‘s close relationship with Donald Trump for several months — especially in light of his administration’s ongoing cruel and inhumane treatment of immigrants (and pretty much anyone who ‘looks like an immigrant’) — reading the President’s incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me," Foley wrote on Instagram.

Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner sparked backlash from GOP leaders on Monday.

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Boca resident Allan Saunders takes a selfie with wrestler Mick Foley during UltraCon at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo Center on Saturday, September 21, 2024. (DAMON HIGGINS/THE PALM BEACH POST / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

"I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he