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On Friday, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson sat down with Fox News, revealing that he would not be endorsing President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, after he offered his endorsement to the president in 2020. 

The actor and former WWE superstar appeared on “Fox and Friends,” and was discussing the impact of cancel culture in our society, and expressed his frustration at the current push to not offend others, saying that it forced people to be dishonest. 

“To be real and to be direct and to be open and to be transparent … that's important to me,” he explained to host Will Cain. “In today's easy cancel culture world and cancel culture, woke culture, this culture, that culture division, etc., that really bugs me.”

Johnson said he prefers to be “real” and that honesty is more important than fears of cancellation.

“You either succumb and be what you think other people want you to be, or you go, 'No, that's not who I am. I'm going to be myself and I'm going to be real.' If you ask me something, a real answer is important, and the truthful answer is important, and that may get people upset and may p— people off. And that's okay,” he said. “But it took me some time to recognize that.”

At this point, Johnson, an Independent, was asked about his endorsement of Biden by Cain. Johnson made his first endorsement of a political candidate during 2020, backing Biden over Trump. 

“As a political independent & centrist, I’ve voted for both parties in the past. In this critical presidential election, I’m endorsing @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris,” Johnson said at the time, citing, “compassion, heart, drive, and soul” as reasons he’s backing Biden for president. 

Now, however, Johnson has changed his tune.

“Am I happy with the state of America right now? Well, that answer's no. Do I believe we're going to get better? I believe in that. I'm an optimistic guy, and I believe we can get better,” he began. “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one that I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” he added. “And I thought back then … ‘Hey, I’m in this position where I have some influence,’ … and I felt like that then that it’s my job to exercise my influence and share with [people] this is who I’m going to endorse. Am I going to do that again this year? That answer is no.”

Johnson said he regretted the division caused by wading into politics and said he would not be publicly endorsing a candidate this time around.

“Am I going to do that again this year? That answer's no. I'm not going to do that,” he told Cain. “Because what I realized that what that caused back then was something that tears me up in my guts back then and now, which is division. And that got me.”

“The takeaway after that months and months and months, I started to realize like, ‘Oh man, that caused an incredible amount of, division in our country.’ So I realize now going into this election, I'm not going to do that. I wouldn't do that because my goal is to bring our country together. I believe in that, in my DNA. So in the spirit of that, there's going to be no endorsement,” he said.

“Not that I'm afraid of it at all, but it's just I realize that this level of influence —I'm gonna keep my politics to myself, and I think it's between me and the ballot box,” he continued.

He added that he would “100%” support whoever the American people chose to be president.