Professional wrestling icon Mick Foley is ending his relationship with the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) over the organization’s ties to President Donald Trump.

The WWE Hall of Famer made the announcement on social media Tuesday, citing Trump’s “incredibly cruel” reaction to the Dec. 14 killing of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, as the “final straw for me.”

“I no longer wish to represent a company that coddles a man so seemingly void of compassion as he marches our country towards autocracy,” he wrote on Instagram. “Last night, I informed WWE talent relations that I would not be making any appearances for the company as long as this man remains in office. Additionally, I will not be signing a new Legends deal when my current one expires in June.”

He went on to note: “I love WWE, will always treasure my time with them, and I am deeply appreciative for all the opportunities they afforded me. But, in the words of Popeye the sailor, ‘I stands all I can stands, and I can’t stands no more.’”

Wrestling legends Hulk Hogan (left) and Mick Foley in 2019. Although Hogan, who died in July, was an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump, Foley is a frequent critic.

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Foley, 60, went by the personas Cactus Jack, Mankind and Dude Love throughout his professional wrestling career. Upon retiring from the ring, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013 ― coincidentally, the same year as Trump, who was honored for his numerous guest appearances at televised WWE events.

HuffPost has reached out to WWE representatives for comment on Foley’s resignation but did not immediately hear back.

Among those to express their support, however, was former WWE manager Jim Cornette, who wrote that Foley had “just become my favorite person in the world” in a post on X Tuesday afternoon.

The president’s decades-long connection to the WWE has been front and center throughout his second term. Wrestling icon Hulk Hogan, who died in July, made a memorable appearance at the 2024 Republican National Convention, where he hailed Trump as “a real American hero.” Earlier this year, former WWE CEO Linda McMahon ― who is the estranged wife of former WWE chairman Vince McMahon ― was appointed Education Secretary.

Foley, meanwhile, has been an outspoken critic of Trump for years. Shortly before the 2024 presidential election, he deemed Trump “an obvious con man who is only out for himself” in a blistering social media video while endorsing former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate.

He concluded his video with a message “directly” for Trump: “I made the decision not to call you a douche bag, even though you are one.”

Foley is just one of many public figures from both sides of the political aisle who have expressed outrage following Trump’s comments in the wake of the Reiners’ deaths Sunday. In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, the president suggested Reiner and his wife had died by a “massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.”