Chris Cillizza
speaker
400 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Apr
Chris Cillizza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
I think when people ask me, like, how do I explain Donald Trump?
I said, have you ever watched WWE?
Trump, by the way, played an active role playing himself in several major storylines in the 1990s in professional wrestling, thanks to Vince McMahon.
I think what he realized is that...
You paint to convince people or to impact people.
You have to play on their emotions first.
It's a heart, not a head thing.
Second, the worst thing you can be in politics, just like in wrestling, is someone who is neither cheered nor jeered.
Trump, I think, understood in wrestling, you're either a face or you're a heel in wrestling parlance.
Faces are the good guys.
The most obvious face of all time is Hulk Hogan.
Heels are the bad guys.
But the heels are people that people love to hate.
And that Trump I think grasped, and I think Vince McMahon's influence on Trump is actually drastically understated.
Trump via McMahon grasped that it's not really about
having everyone love you.
It's about having everyone talk about you, having everyone have an opinion about you.
The worst thing you could be in Trump's world is boring.
Dwayne Johnson, The Rock got his start in professional wrestling.
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