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Simone Garcia Johnson, the former WWE NXT wrestler known as Ava and the daughter of professional wrestling legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, ripped the Trump administration and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a social media post on Sunday.
Garcia Johnson announced his departure from WWE on Friday. She was used as the general manager of NXT – WWE’s developmental brand – and was part of the Schism faction earlier in her tenure with the brand.
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Ava opens contract signing during the NXT Great American Bash at Center Stage Theater on July 12, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Bradlee Rutledge/WWE)
The criticism of the White House was her first message since leaving the company.
“And now that I can say this with my chest full, (middle finger emoji) ICE and this whole administration,” she wrote on X.
WWE personalities formed a close relationship with President Donald Trump before and after his election. Former chairman Vince McMahon notoriously wrote Trump into a storyline that played into WrestleMania 23 in 2007. WrestleMania IV and WrestleMania V also took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, sponsored by Trump Plaza, the business mogul’s former casino.
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Ava in ring portrait during NXT at the WWE Performance Center on February 21, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. (Matt Pendleton/WWE via Getty Images)
During Trump’s second term, WWE star Roman Reigns expressed his support for the president in April 2025.
“I support our president. Trump is one of those guys with a vast history and a vast baggage,” Reigns, who said the choice for the 2024 election was “very clear,” told Vanity Fair. “He’s worked in entertainment. He’s worked in big business, in politics. At this point, I’m all for a bright future for our country. Positive, competent leadership. For us to be what we’re supposed to be, a world leader, and to respect that respect and do what a global power like us should do.”
Reigns criticized Trump for picking battles with his political rivals, saying Trump “needs that opponent.”
Paul “Triple H” Levesque addresses the crowd during Wrestlepalooza at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on September 20, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Michael Marques/WWE via Getty Images)
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WWE chief content officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque has been linked to the administration as he was tapped to help revive the presidential fitness test.
