Getty PhotosWrestling legend Hulk Hogan has joked about physique slamming Vice-President Kamala Harris in entrance of a fired up crowd, and questioned her racial id.
In a video obtained by TMZ, the 71-year-old could be seen asking the jeering crowd: “Would you like me to physique slam Kamala Harris?!”
“Would you like me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to one in every of his iconic wrestling strikes.
The feedback have been made throughout a promotional occasion for his new beer, and are available amid calls to cease violent political rhetoric, following the assassination try on Donald Trump practically six weeks in the past.
Hogan continued to make extra feedback about Ms Harris together with one about her Indian heritage.
Kamala Harris is bi-racial – her mom was 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 Hogan requested the group, earlier than utilizing an outdated and stereotypical greeting related to Native American Indians.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 might be heard saying he “was going to get warmth for that one”.
“That was not me, that was the beer speaking,” he added.
The BBC has contacted Hulk Hogan’s administration for remark.
Trump just lately attacked the vice-president’s racial id, falsely claiming she had solely ever emphasised her Asian-American heritage till just lately when, he claimed, “she turned a black particular person”.
Final month, Hulk Hogan appeared on the Republican Nationwide Conference the place he gave a speech praising Trump.
He additionally ripped off a shirt to disclose a vest with Trump’s title and his vice-presidential choose, JD Vance.
The previous wrestler’s newest feedback come because the Democrats are holding their social gathering’s conference this week in Chicago, the place they are going to formally endorse Kamala Harris because the Democratic presidential candidate for November’s election.