Former WWE star Chris Masters attacked President Donald Trump in a video posted after the midterm elections, telling his followers that the results show the country has finally “smartened up.” Masters, who wrestled under the name “The Masterpiece,” said he felt “relieved” by the outcome and claimed that Americans have now realized Trump is “completely full of s–t.” He made the remarks in a video shared to his Instagram story in the days after the November 3rd elections.
Masters, whose legal name is Christopher Mordetzky, wrestled for WWE in two stints during the mid-2000s and early 2010s. He was known for the Master Lock, a full nelson that served as his finishing move, and he left the company in 2011, continuing his career on the independent circuit. Trump also has a history with the wrestling promotion: he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013 and shaved Vince McMahon’s head at WrestleMania 23 as part of the “Battle of the Billionaires.”
In the video, Masters used the phrase “the great awakening,” terminology often associated with the QAnon movement, and said the real awakening differed from what that movement expected. He addressed the election results first and then criticized Trump’s conduct in office, pointing to the president’s demeanor and the country’s standing abroad. The remarks came as several other former WWE personalities commented publicly on the midterm results.
As eWrestlingNews reported, Masters opened the video by addressing the election results. “I don’t know about everybody else, but I am relieved that the country has finally smartened up,” he said. “The Great Awakening has happened. It’s just not exactly what QAnon thought. It’s everybody finally realizing that this orange dude is completely full of s–t. He only cares about himself.”
Masters listed his complaints about Trump’s time in office. “It took this long for all of us to realize it. All the BS we’ve had, the most unpresidential president, the lack of decorum, the name-calling, all of it,” he continued. “He’s just put us into the gutter. That man has put this country into the gutter, and he’s made us the second-most hated country in the world, only behind Israel.”
The midterms produced a shift in control of both chambers of Congress. As the Associated Press reported, Democrats won the House and the Senate, flipping states that Trump carried by double digits in 2024. The AP noted it was the first time in decades that Texas, Kansas, and South Carolina elected Democratic senators, with Democrats also flipping seats in North Carolina and Ohio.
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Masters was not the only former WWE personality to comment on the results. Val Venis said Republicans deserved to lose, though he also promoted an unproven conspiracy theory connected to the Charlie Kirk murder case. Mick Foley, who had previously encouraged Americans to vote Democrat ahead of the election, welcomed the results and said that Americans share more in common than the issues that divide them, as Ringside News reported.
Trump addressed the Republican losses in his first sit-down interview since the election, speaking with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat in an interview that aired Sunday. As CBS News reported, Trump said the primary reason for Republicans’ losses was that “I was not on the ballot.” Democrats picked up more than 40 House seats and seven Senate seats, according to the network’s projections.
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