WWE superstar Chelsea Green has spent a few years doing a political character, but not a politically partisan character, including her United States Championship reign where she had her own Secret Service. Green knows being booed is part of the job, but what she’s started to push back from was something else: fans assigning her a real life political identity that she says isn’t her.
Green responded on X after a social media post accused her of being MAGA following a recent WWE SmackDown segment involving Green, Tiffany Stratton, Charlotte Flair, Michin, Jade Cargill and B-Fab. The bit appeared to borrow from the viral Sophie Cunningham pointing meme, which grew out Cunningham pointed pointing at Phoenix Mercury forward DeWanna Bonner during a heated June 22 Fever-Mercury game. By the time WWE used it, the moment had already been stripped from its original basketball context and turned into internet shorthand.
The internet, being the internet, didn’t leave it there. Some fans connected the meme to right-wing politics, then connected that assumption to Green. One post used a racial slur while asking why it took “finding out” Green was MAGA for people to criticize her.
“I can handle you saying things about my looks or my talent,” Green answered directly, “but what you won’t do is spread lies about my political views.” She then listed what she called the facts: she’s a Canadian citizen, she can’t vote in America, she’s “not MAGA,” she’s “a liberal / democrat,” and, if she becomes a U.S. citizen, she’ll vote for a president who believes in equal human rights.
There are real conversations to have about race, politics, wrestling crowds, celebrity platforms and who gets the benefit of the doubt. There are also lazy shortcuts. Deciding someone’s politics from a recycled sports meme, then treating that assumption as confirmed fact, is one of them.
Green has pushed back before on suggestions that supporting human rights is a partisan stunt. In 2025 X post Green said that when she speaks about human rights, she’s talking about equality, not party politics. Her X account has since been deactivated.
Her latest statement puts her position on the record again. Green said she isn’t MAGA, she’s Canadian, she can’t currently vote in the United States, and if she becomes a U.S. citizen, she’ll vote for a president who supports equal human rights.
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