Hulk Hogan, a proto-Trump in yellow underwear
It was his double with a horseshoe-shaped mustache. On July 24, 2025, Donald Trump paid tribute to wrestler Hulk Hogan, who died of a heart attack at the age of 71. "We lost a great friend today," he wrote on his social network, Truth. "Mag from start to finish." And maybe even before him.
In forty years, wrestler Hulk Hogan blurred the lines between genres—sports, film, television—between reality and fiction, cheated and lied about his steroid use, rode the wave of scandals with nothing really stopping him, becoming a creature of money, virility, and entertainment, a character who could emerge from a pinball machine, a cereal box, or a screen—especially a screen—to scream his rabid patriotism in your face, a content of which there was little human left, and whose life and career prepared America for the circus of the Trump years.
Libération
