Hulk Hogan booed: Trumpworld just found its biggest loser of 2025.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. However, if you are looking for a sign that some Americans are, indeed, not on board with the atavistic rage fantasies imbued in a second Trump term, you must turn to one of our country’s greatest institutions: WWE’s Monday Night Raw, during which, two nights ago, an arena of Los Angelenos lustfully booed Hulk Hogan to death: The crowd booing Hulk Hogan pic.twitter.com/8smB24ZaIU — Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com January 7, 2025 Hogan, you might remember, is the singular icon of professional wrestling’s golden years. The Hulkster slipped into his tried-and-true good-guy affect—the veiny visage of vitamin-eating, prayers-saying patriotism—while Jimmy Hart, Hulk’s eternal sidekick, waved an American flag behind him. I think that’s because Hogan, like so many other celebrities in the Trump orbit, seems to have embarking upon his MAGA turn with a sense of bloodless opportunism rather than a deeply held partisan leaning—a cultural force that provides absolution for his many sins and, of course, a chance to make more money. Hulk Hogan, though, is the only one of them who’s been put up onstage like ritual sacrifice for defeated liberals.