Comedian Munya Chawawa\u2019s documentary is a compelling dive into the world of wrestling and its many links with the 45th and 47th US president<\/p>\n
A small handful of psychological concepts transformed our understanding of the world, and each other. Firstly, Sigmund Freud\u2019s discovery of the unconscious. Alongside that, Carl Jung\u2019s hypothesis of the collective unconscious. Comedian Munya Chawawa\u2019s fantastic documentary Wrestling With Trump (Channel\u00a04, Tuesday, 10pm) offers a startling new idea: that the American president\u2019s bullish political style has been cribbed entirely from WWE SmackDown. Let\u2019s call it the theory of knocking everyone unconscious.<\/p>\n
We meet the aide who advised Trump on how a crowd-rousing pantomime of good v evil could be politicised. We cringe at WrestleMania 23 footage, in which Trump appears, pushing promoter Vince McMahon and punching him in the head, the so-called Battle of the Billionaires. We\u2019re reminded how many wrestlers, including the Undertaker and Kane, now stump for Trump; that Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt open at the Republican National Convention in 2024, shouting \u201cLet Trump-a-mania rule again!\u201d It\u2019s all very funny, though of course it isn\u2019t. Former wrestling executive Linda McMahon is currently the US secretary of education. Is that a punchline?<\/p>\n
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