Hulk Hogan and Donald Trump shared a relationship that dates back to the 1980s, when the future president was a Manhattan real estate mogul — who had yet to embark on his reality show turn in The Apprentice — and the blonde grappler had become the preeminent star of the wildly popular World Wrestling Federation.
That long and winding road would see Trump in the White House and Hogan taking one of his last star turns in a rousing, shirt-ripping speech before the Republican National Convention last summer as Trump was officially made the party’s nominee, a week after an assassin nearly killed him at a rally in Butler, Penn.
