“He’s a Capital G” - The Rock Dragged Into Hollywood Political War
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Hollywood stars began lashing out at Dwayne Johnson on Monday after he reiterated his stance to keep his personal politics out of public eye. After telling Esquire earlier this month that he hates the slinging of modern politics, Star Trek alum George Takai and Stand-By Me actor Will Wheaton took to social media to slam Johnson, arguing that his silence makes him complicit.
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a story about The Rock, which is like, hey, Rock, we want you to talk politics.
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And The Rock's like, dude, let me just do my thing.
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Let me just go out there and do my, what is the show and the cartoon
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Hollywood stars began lashing out at Dwayne Johnson on Monday
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after he reiterated his stance to keep his personal politics out of public eye
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after telling Esquire earlier this month that he hates the slinging of modern politics.
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Star Trek alum George Takai and Stand By Me actor Will Wheaton
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took to social media to slam Johnson with Taki arguing that his silence makes him complicit.
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The Rock's recent comments to Esquire about wanting to keep my politics to myself
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has divided fans with some calling his silence, Taki wrote on threads.
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He then replied to his post on Monday, writing silence his complicity.
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Wheaton also called out Johnson in a thread post, later deleted,
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that was reported by Entertainment Weekly, writing so disappointing to find that he is such a coward.
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However, some came to Johnson's defense online, including comedian Matt Reif,
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who took on X to mock Wheaton's coward comments.
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I love how he's a coward, but could quite literally tear Will's throat out through his asshole.
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Rife wrote on a Wednesday, adding this internet comment, world is so bold.
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The controversy stems from Johnson's Esquire interview.
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For the magazine's summer 2026 cover story, the actor known for starring in the Fast and Furious franchise,
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as well as Jumanji films, explained why he'll be keeping his political views private from now on.
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What I learned through experience is that I need to keep, need, not want the main thing, the main thing, I said.
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And the main thing for me is the thing that in the morning I swing my legs out of bed and I run towards is creating.
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I've learned I'm going to keep my politics to myself.
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Listen, Pat, for someone that was in Hollywood and learned really, really quick, you open your mouth or you say something funny.
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I said something about, because this was, by the way, I was in during 2016, 15, I was
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When I saw Trump at the Apprentice J fight, I was just like, yeah, whatever, whatever.
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I got off stage and the owner of the comedy club, and I'm not going to say who it was,
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Hey, you can't, you can't be going up there and talking positive about this.
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so i wasn't getting stage time because i was talking positive about trump so that being said
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it could ruin your entire career because this game and we all know this past oh also this i went to
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get a comedy booker a person to book me for comedy and they're like i came to see me headline crushed
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it standing ovation i went for the gusto you know what he said yeah i can't sell you you're not
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you're not mainstream i'm like what are you talking about i go on middle eastern i could
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I think the ambiguous I could play whatever they're like yeah you're a Republican literally
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said that and this is a big comedy booker manager agent whatever that you want to call them and I
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realize it either you go listen either you're political or you're not this is a business
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decision and good for him because once you go full you know I mean there's no coming back once
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What do you think Rock is deep down in his life?
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And by the way, I respect the hell out of him for doing this.
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Look, when that age hits six, and you want to kind of go and be a trifecta
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He's the biggest superstar, bigger than Arnold ever was.
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So if he's a billionaire, Arnold never became a billionaire.
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If he's a superstar and he becomes a president, then he officially becomes one of two.
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you know why he becomes one of two because it's him and trump yeah trump was a billionaire
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superstar on tv and he goes and becomes a president he could it could only be two of rocks
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and he's in the camp with trump he could pull it off but take your time yeah take your time
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adam i think uh rock at the end of the day he's just a talented dude i don't think he wants to
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be in politics have you interviewed him you had a great interview with him his story's amazing his
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his relationship with his father his ex-wife everything that he's done is doing i think rock
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at the end of the day you know the one thing that he wants to be i think he wants to be liked
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i genuinely believe that i think when he was younger and more of a football player and a
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wrestler it was clearly more pro-america conservative type values then he got into
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hollywood and i think at one point he had to literally put on a dress and to see that side
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of the things right uh twinkle twinkle that whole situation i think rock is someone who
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he's generally a synergist. I think he's the type of person
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the left or on the right says, I like The Rock.
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Now, if you're a hardcore person on the right, you're not
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going to like The Rock. If you're a hardcore person on the
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left, if you're a weak coward like this guy
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calling out The Rock who would never say anything to his face,
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going to like him. But at the end of the day, Rock is a likable
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and he loves America. That's what it comes down to.
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good with this? He said, Pat, I'm good with that.
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Okay, great. Let's go. The interview. No, we needed
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let's talk. We talked on the phone. He's like, no,
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debate that we did yeah i learned about every candidate not on stage behind closed doors how
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they were you'll learn about them behind closed doors and then you give them props in front of
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everybody to showing up which they did yeah so i i learned a lot about the rock doing you know
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dealing with them behind closed i was very impressed with them what was the one thing that
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you remember about dealing with the rock what impressed you the most guy he's a man's man he's
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a freaking dude you would like he's like he's a g yeah yeah yeah he's and by the way at the highest
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level i mean it would be an understatement he's a capital g is what he is by the way we got to
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give a shout out to the rock very personal charisma when you meet him he doesn't dylan he
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talked to the kids he talked to everybody no he's cool and we give a shout out to the rocks
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