Getty PicturesWrestling legend Hulk Hogan joked in entrance of an excited crowd about body-slamming Vice President Kamala Harris and questioning her racial id.
In a video obtained by TMZ, the 71-year-old will be seen asking the jeering crowd, “You guys need me to physique slam Kamala Harris?!”
“You need me to place my leg on Kamala?!” he yelled, referring to one in every of his signature wrestling strikes.
The feedback, made throughout a promotion for his new beer, come amid requires an finish to violent political rhetoric following the assassination of Donald Trump practically six weeks in the past.
Hogan went on to make extra feedback about Ms. Harris, together with one about her Indian heritage.
Kamala Harris is biracial – her mom is from India and her father is Jamaican.
“Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?” Hogan requested the group, earlier than utilizing an outdated and stereotypical greeting related to Native American Indians.
The video stops after he’s heard saying “he’ll get sizzling for that.”
“That is not me, that is the beer speaking,” he added.
The BBC has contacted Hulk Hogan’s administration for remark.
Trump has just lately attacked the vp’s racial id, falsely claiming she solely emphasised her Asian-American heritage till just lately, when he claimed “she turned black.”
Final month, Hulk Hogan appeared on the Republican Nationwide Conference and gave a speech praising Trump.
He additionally tore off a shirt to disclose a vest bearing Trump’s title and his vice presidential decide, J.D. Vance.
The previous wrestler’s newest feedback come as Democrats maintain their occasion conference in Chicago this week, the place they’ll formally endorse Kamala Harris as their Democratic presidential candidate within the November election.
