Sonnen: I’m a huge supporter of Trump
“There’s one word to sum it up and it’s courage. He has courage. There’s a courage in running for president, there’s also a huge ego involved.”
Retired UFC fighter ChaelSonnen likes Donald Trump for president.
“I’m a huge supporter of Trump,” said Sonnen to Damon Martin for FOX Sports. “When people talk about him, I hear all these political analysts, they’re just terrible. That’s another space if I had enough time I would just go and take over because they don’t even know what they’re talking about. They put on their fancy suits, they sit behind their microphones, they collect a paycheck and they don’t know a damn thing about what they’re talking about.
“If Donald Trump’s campaign falls off the cliff tomorrow — and history says that it does. The frontrunner never maintains his lead. History says it falls off the cliff tomorrow and if it does, every pundit out there still loses. Because not one of them predicted he could make it this far. Not one of them predicted he was going to run or that he was going to lead in the polls, or that he could maintain a lead with the smallest fundraising and not accepting money from political action committees. They all lose and he wins.”
“Whether you agree with him or you don’t, it’s absolutely secondary to the fact that he has courage. I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump — ‘he’s brash and he’s bold and he’s successful’ and none of those are what it is. There’s one word to sum it up and it’s courage. He has courage. There’s a courage in running for president, there’s also a huge ego involved, there’s a few things that you need to be a political candidate.
“In his case, it’s one word and it’s courage. I find it compelling and go Trump.”
“If for nothing else, whether I don’t have a fan in the world or I turn out to be the biggest pay-per-view draw there is, I’m going to be real. Making a comparison to Donald Trump — it doesn’t matter whether you agree with him or don’t, you can’t disagree with what I’m saying that he has changed the way politicians speak.
“He has changed the entire dialogue. There were guys who did that in pro wrestling — ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin did that in wrestling. It wasn’t as though I was the original, I was just the original in our sport.”
Ironically, Sonnen will be appearing on the next Celebrity Apprentice. Trump was by some accounts fired from the show by NBC days after he made critical comments about Mexican immigrants. Trump countered that he wasn’t fired, because he left the show to run for president of the United States.