{"id":84707,"date":"2026-07-01T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/wil-wheaton-slams-coward-dwayne-johnson-for-refusing-to-speak-about-politics\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:28:00","slug":"wil-wheaton-slams-coward-dwayne-johnson-for-refusing-to-speak-about-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/wil-wheaton-slams-coward-dwayne-johnson-for-refusing-to-speak-about-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wil Wheaton SLAMS ‘coward’ Dwayne Johnson for refusing to speak about politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wil Wheaton spoke out against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson<\/a> after he publicly declared he was ‘going to keep my politics to myself.’<\/p>\n

‘Politics is omnipresent and it’s forever. I don’t like it. [Laughs.] I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls*** that comes with it,’ the 54-year-old ‘political independent and centrist’ told Esquire <\/a>on June 11.<\/p>\n

‘The main thing for me, the thing that in the morning I swing my legs out of bed and I run towards, is creating. It’s art. It’s storytelling.’<\/p>\n

When challenged about why he doesn’t condemn President Donald Trump<\/a> like Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, Johnson said: ‘Then why don’t they talk? They should sit down and talk. I don’t know where that goes, but I do know that’s an important step.’<\/p>\n

In a since-deleted Threads post <\/a>responding to George Takei’s ‘silence is complicity’ post on Monday, Wheaton blasted: ‘So disappointing to find out he is such a coward.’<\/p>\n

The 53-year-old former child star has never been shy on the subject, previously endorsing Kamala Harris<\/a> for president in 2024, Joe Biden<\/a> in 2020 and Bernie Sanders<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n

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Wil Wheaton (L) spoke out against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson (R) after he publicly declared he was ‘going to keep my politics to myself’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Smashing Machine actor regretted endorsing Biden in 2020, telling The Will Cain Show<\/a> in 2024: ‘What that caused back then – was something that tears me up in my guts, back then and now, which is division, and that got me.<\/p>\n

‘The takeaway after that, months and months and months, I started to realize, like, “Oh man, that caused an incredible amount of division in our country.”‘<\/p>\n

That same year, Johnson made a phone call to Trump, whom he called ‘brave’ <\/a>for surviving the assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has reached out to Johnson’s publicists for comment, but have not heard back yet.<\/p>\n

The third-generation wrestler has been hard at work promoting his role as demigod Maui in Thomas Kail’s live-action remake of Moana, which hits US\/UK theaters July 10.<\/p>\n

Johnson is also set to star in upcoming films from directors Martin Scorsese, Darren Aronofsky, Benny Safdie, Jake Kasdan and J.J. Abrams.<\/p>\n

Wheaton will next guest star as a magical version of himself in Chuck Lorre’s 10-episode The Big Bang Theory spin-off series Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which premieres July 23 on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

The Body narrator previously appeared in 17 episodes of the hit CBS sitcom, starring Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco, spanning 2009-2019.<\/p>\n

Audiences best know Wheaton for his breakout role, at age 12, as Gordie Lachance in the late Rob Reiner’s critically-acclaimed 1986 drama Stand By Me.<\/p>\n

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The 54-year-old ‘political independent and centrist’ told Esquire on June 11:’Politics is omnipresent and it’s forever. I don’t like it. [Laughs.] I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls*** that comes with it’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When challenged about why he doesn’t condemn President Donald Trump like Bruce Springsteen (pictured June 18), Johnson said: ‘Then why don’t they talk? They should sit down and talk. I don’t know where that goes, but I do know that’s an important step’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a since-deleted Threads post responding to George Takei’s ‘silence is complicity’ post on Monday, Wheaton blasted: ‘So disappointing to find out he is such a coward’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 53-year-old former child star has never been shy on the subject, previously endorsing Kamala Harris for president in 2024 (pictured), Joe Biden in 2020 and Bernie Sanders in 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Smashing Machine actor regretted endorsing Biden in 2020, telling The Will Cain Show in 2024: ‘What that caused back then – was something that tears me up in my guts, back then and now, which is division, and that got me’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued: ‘The takeaway after that, months and months and months, I started to realize, like, “Oh man, that caused an incredible amount of division in our country”‘ (pictured June 23)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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That same year, Johnson made a phone call to Trump, whom he called ‘brave’ for surviving the assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The third-generation wrestler has been hard at work promoting his role as demigod Maui in Thomas Kail’s live-action remake of Moana, which hits US\/UK theaters July 10<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wheaton will next guest star as a magical version of himself in Chuck Lorre’s 10-episode The Big Bang Theory spin-off series Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, which premieres July 23 on HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Mensa member is scheduled to bring his Stand by Me 40th anniversary tour to The Louisville Palace in Kentucky on November 13 alongside Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell.<\/p>\n

Wheaton is also famed for portraying Wesley Crusher from 1987-1994 in all seven seasons of Gene Roddenberry’s hit sci-fi spin-off, Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/p>\n

On the personal front, the NY Times-bestselling author is stepfather to two sons – Nolan and Ryan – with his wife of 26 years, Anne Prince.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wil Wheaton spoke out against Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson after he publicly declared he was ‘going to keep my politics to myself.’ ‘Politics is omnipresent and it’s forever. I don’t like it. [Laughs.] I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls*** that comes with it,’ the 54-year-old ‘political independent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}