Wrestling legend and Trump supporter Hulk Hogan grabbed headlines this week after linking the deaths of Bob Saget, Betty White, and Sidney Poitier to the COVID-19 vaccine.
Saget died suddenly on January 9 at age 65, and authorities have claimed there was no evidence to support a drug overdose or foul play as the cause. But Newsweek reports that didn’t stop YouTuber Josh Pray from posting a video on Facebook implying that Saget’s death, along with that of White and Poitier, all stemmed from vaccination against COVID-19.
One commenter on Pray’s video wrote: “Wellll many directions we can go with this, but I will take jab for $500 Alex.”
That’s when Hogan decided to weigh in on the issue.
“100 percent Betty and Sidney were also jabed [sic] their dropping like flies but they’ll never say it,” he commented on the video.
The pro wrestler subsequently deleted the comment, though screenshots of it continue to circulate on social media.
Needless to say, Twitter has weighed in on Hogan’s anti-vax stance, with users expressing their skepticism at his expertise…
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Kinda funny a guy who took copious amounts of steroids for years is #antivaxx !!?? #hulkhogan https://t.co/lv3fA816rw
— CambridgeGirl (@cambridgegirl) January 11, 2022
Hulk Hogan is anti-vaccine? Next you're gonna tell us the Ninja Turtles are climate change deniers, and ruin our whole childhoods.
— Space Castle ? (@SpaceCastlePod) January 11, 2022
Hulk *Hogan is anti-vaxx, thus continuing the trend of steroid enthusiasts worrying about the possible adverse effects of a life-saving vaccine. Cool.
— Ana Kasparian (@AnaKasparian) January 11, 2022
I wake up to find out Hulk Hogan is not down with getting vaxxed but he’s been fine with shooting up roids for years. pic.twitter.com/2PIjdZzmmX
— David Yepiz (@racquetball54) January 11, 2022
So Hulk Hogan believes a 94 year old and a 99 year old both died because they took the vaccine. That's about as believable as thinking he got huge muscles from taking his vitamins and saying his prayers ???? 94 & 99! If the vaccine caused them to die then I hope I make it that far.
— Mix Masta B ™ ? #VaxUp (@MixMastaB) January 11, 2022
To be clear, Betty White, 99, died of a stroke on December 31, 2021. Sidney Poitier died aged 94 of natural causes January 6, 2022. There is no evidence to link the death of either actor to COVID-19.
Moreover, given that the CDC reports that over 247 million Americans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, suggesting that any “deadly conspiracy” would have to be far more reaching than just three people, all of whom happen to be celebrities.
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anglcan
Hulk Hogan is to medical science what Donald Trump is to constitutional law.
johncp56
Ditto just spreads more fuel to the anti vaxesasses
Jim
And one looks to a washed up “wrestler” for his insights because . . .. .. .
chat fisher
The bigger and older he gets, the dumber he gets. Who even cares what this has been, no, never was, thinks, or doesn’t think, the more likely.
cuteguy
Of course he’s a Chump supporter, like him he was in a reality show with a quasi incestuous relationship with his own daughter. And now, he’s a unemployed loser living in Florida. Go MAGA. I’m sure he also thought the Jan 6 insurrectionists were also “beautiful people”
Mack
I guess now for the next 50 years anybody who dies the anti-vaxx will blame the jab. Bunch of f*****g idiots
Bosch
What an unintelligent, brainwashed yokel. Vaccines are one of the reasons Betty White lived to 99 and Poitier to 94.
Brian
Given their ages, I would guess that both of them got the polio vaccine a few decades ago. They lived to their 90s *because of* science, not in spite of it.
SteveRic
When Hulk Hogan gets a MD, behind his name and not a ‘duh’, he will have some credibility. He is just a washed up, Trumpster that has taken too many hits to the head.
Heywood Jablowme
Hulk Hogan is obviously not keeping up with the latest QAnon news. Q says Betty White is NOT dead, she’s just in hiding, and she’ll emerge from hiding to become Trump’s vice president when Trump is reinstated!
RTG
Head injuries can be really, really ugly. Kind of like his sex tape…..
bsg1967
This bodes well for the Chris Hemsworth movies, unless it’s a comedy
Leash
Trash
Paulie P
I am guessing as both Betty’s and Sidneys personal nurse “Hulk” must have been there to know when and where they got the vaccine…. Imma gonna guess Betty and Sid got theirs in late 2020 or early 2021…….. and imagine they lasted a whole year before dying peacefully in their sleep.
Douche.
Mr. Stadnick
If you are taking medical advice from an ex-wrestler you have more problems than getting a vaccine.
scotty
chump is as chump does.