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Getty ImagesWrestling 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: “Do you need me to physique slam Kamala Harris?!”
“Do you need me to drop the leg on Kamala?!” he shouts, referring to certainly one of his iconic wrestling strikes.
The feedback had 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 almost 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 Hogan requested the group, earlier than utilizing an outdated and stereotypical greeting related to Native American Indians.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 may very well 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 not too long ago attacked the vice-president’s racial id, falsely claiming she had solely ever emphasised her Asian-American heritage till not too long ago when, he claimed, “she turned a black individual”.
Last month, Hulk Hogan appeared on the Republican National Convention 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 former wrestler’s newest feedback come because the Democrats are holding their social gathering’s conference this week in Chicago, the place they’ll formally endorse Kamala Harris because the Democratic presidential candidate for November’s election.
