Hulk Hogan Jokes He Wants to “Body Slam Kamala Harris,” Questions Her Racial Identity

Hulk Hogan asked a raucous crowd of supporters on Monday if he should “body slam Kamala Harris,” before going on to question the Democratic presidential nominee’s racial identity.

Hogan made the remarks while speaking at an event in Medina, Ohio, where he was promoting his new beer.

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“You want me to body slam somebody?” he asked while hyping up the crowd in a video published by TMZ. “You want me to body slam Kamala Harris?”

Hogan mispronounced Harris’ first name when he posed the question, and continued to do so throughout the segment.

He continued “I said, ‘Do you want me to body slam Kamala Harris? Do you want me to drop the leg on Kamala?'”

The WWE star then moved into questions about the vice president’s racial identity. Republicans — including Donald Trump — have attacked Harris’ mixed race identity in recent weeks, with the former president saying in July, “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

On Monday, Hogan asked the crowd, “Is Kamala a chameleon? Is she Indian?”

As the crowd continued cheered, Hogan made a gesture with his hand mocking Native Americans (Harris is not Native; her mother was from India and her father from Jamaica.)

“I am going to get heat for that one, brother,” Hogan said. “That was not me. That was the beers talking.”

Hogan is an avid supporter of Trump, and made an appearance at July’s Republican National Convention, when he stood onstage and ripped his shirt in half to reveal a Trump-Vance tank top underneath. The wrestler also a long history of controversial and offensive remarks, and he was previously suspended from the WWE in 2015 after a leaked video showed him repeatedly using the N-word. He apologized and was later reinstated to the Hall of Fame in 2018.

The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Hogan and the Harris campaign for comment.

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