Dwayne Johnson has been talking about running for President of the United States for almost as long as he’s been answering “maybe” to questions about wrestling in a WWE ring again. He even made it the framing device for his autobiographical sitcom for NBC, Young Rock.
But as he launches the media blitz for his upcoming DC superhero (or anti-hero) film Black Adam, Rocky says he’s officially taking a presidential nomination “off the table.”
Here’s what he said to CBS in an interview that will air in full this weekend on their Sunday morning show:
Actor and world star Dwayne @The stone Johnson has been seriously discussed as a potential presidential candidate up until now – and it was talk he didn’t outright dismiss. Johnson tells @thattracysmith he rules out running for president & more this “Sunday morning”. pic.twitter.com/38DltxUFej
— CBS Sunday Morning (@CBSSunday) October 7, 2022
“That’s off the table. Yes, that’s off the table.
“I’m going to say this because it needs a B-side: I love our country and everyone in it. I like being a dad too. And that’s the most important thing to me, being a father, number one, especially at this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives. Because I know what it was like being on the road and being so busy that I was absent for many years as my first daughter grows up at this critical age at this critical moment in her life. And that’s what the presidency will do. Sure, CEO sounds great. But the most important thing I want to be is daddy. That’s it.”
In addition to WWE Superstar-in-Training Simone – aka Ava Raine, the daughter he shares with ex-wife and business partner Dany Garcia, Johnson and now-wife Lauren Hashian have two girls: six-year-old Jasmine and four-year-old Tiana.
And it sounds like they don’t have to share their father with the rest of America… unless you count the way they do thanks to his acting career, his work, owning a football league, selling fine tequila and his Sportswear already doing design, a possible WrestleMania 39 feud with Roman Reigns, and all the other projects he’s started since I started writing this.