Bret Hart Called Vince McMahon About A Return After Watching McMahon Work With Donald Trump

Bret Hart recalls how his return to WWE came to be, sharing how watching Vince McMahon work with Donald Trump proved to be an influence.

In 2007, there were multiple occasions where Vince McMahon would get physical with the current president of the United States, including at WrestleMania 23, when Trump would floor McMahon with a clothesline during their Battle Of The Billionaires bout.

While speaking to Inside The Ropes, Bret Hart spoke about his return to WWE, noting that he called Vince McMahon after seeing him work with Trump.

“I called Vince [McMahon]. I was living in Hawaii at the time and having a pretty good life down there and having a good life and happy and everything. I didn’t need wrestling or anything, but I called up WWF [WWE] and talked to some guy named Kevin Dunn was his name. He’s one of Vince’s right-hand guys. I said, ‘yeah, I’d like to talk to Vince about maybe doing a storyline, an angle, and coming back. I just watched him wrestle Donald Trump yesterday. I could wrestle him.’ I can’t because of my concussion injury that I had at the time, which was very real.”

Recently, Rob Van Dam noted that he bonded with Hart after smoking weed with him. You can read more about that here.