[1998-11-30-WCW-Nitro] Hulk Hogan on the Tonight Show

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Clip of Hogan on Leno announcing his retirement from wrestling and saying he plans to run for President of the United States. We need an honest American, which is hilarious coming from Hulk. He loves burying Jesse Ventura in these, calling him a "little teeny minnow in a big pond" here and comparing his popularity to Jesse's. Hogan talks tax policy and Saddam Hussein with a straight face.

[soup23]

Hogan is on the Tonight Show and announces his retirement. He says this allows him to take the next step in becoming the president of the United States. Hogan gives a particularly neutral answer of not being a Republican or a Democrat but then follows that up with some crowd pleasing responses to his flat tax initiative and killing Saddam. So, do we think Hulk was even 5% serious about this and thought he might get some public clamoring?

[PeteF3]

A disturbingly orange man with a follicle problem and no political experience announces his candidacy for President, promising to make America great again. How far we've come. Leno calls out Hogan for not declaring a political party, which is about the one and only instance of an actual confrontation on the Leno-era Tonight Show.