WWE currently has a very close relationship with the U.S. administration. Triple H visited the White House earlier in the summer for the revival of the Presidential Fitness Test and recently returned alongside Stephanie and Linda McMahon for the signing of an executive order on use of AI in pediatric cancer research.
It now appears that the White House may have been drawing inspiration from WWE storylines. The Wrestling Observer reports that during the peak of the Epstein Files scandal, a White House press office official reached out to a WWE executive.
Triple H reportedly informed staff that Paul Heyman’s comments about Brock Lesnar’s return were used as a model for how the administration framed its response to criticism during the controversy.
A section of WWE fans were against Lesnar’s return due to his name coming up in the Janel Grant lawsuit against Vince McMahon.
While defending WWE’s decision on The Ariel Helwani Show in August, Heyman said:
“Everyone has criticism in life. There are people that criticize Jesus. There are people that criticize Moses. There are people that criticize Muhammad. There are people that criticize God or Gods.
There is no President that has ever existed with 100% approval rating. There is no President that has ever existed that someone hasn’t pointed to and said, ‘That President sucked’. There are people who to this day think Abraham Lincoln sucked. They’re wrong, but they think it.
There are people who thought FDR sucked. They’re wrong, but they think it. Bill Clinton doesn’t have 100% approval rating. Donald Trump doesn’t have 100% approval rating. Nobody does.
There’s always gonna be critics of anything that we do. And very few people ever make it to the top in life without either making mistakes or having skeletons in their closet.
Obviously, the decision was made, ‘It’s time to bring back Brock Lesnar’. Whatever that decision is based on, I respect it.
If there are critics of it, get over it. He’s here. And he’s gonna be here. And you ain’t gonna be able to cancel him.”
