On a recent edition of the “Wrestling With Rip Rogers” podcast, ex-AEW producer Ace Steel spoke about his time playing Donald Trump on RAW in 2007. He said,
“[I got] a one-night bonus from Vince. Vince loved it. A week later, I got a call. I got hired. I was like, ‘Really?'”
The match saw Steel portray the former President to face Rosie O’Donnell, as played by then-NWA Women’s World Champion Kiley Mclean.
The match, considered one of the worst ever in WWE history, played into the real-life spat between Trump and the longtime talk show host.
Steel would win the match after throwing a cake in O’Donnell’s face and performing a diving ‘hairbutt’ from the top rope.
Ace would be released from WWE in 2008 but returned in 2019 as a Performance Center coach. He left WWE in 2022 to join AEW but was fired that same year.
