{"id":249686,"date":"2026-07-02T10:34:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/wil-wheaton-calls-dwayne-johnson-a-coward\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:34:54","slug":"wil-wheaton-calls-dwayne-johnson-a-coward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/02\/wil-wheaton-calls-dwayne-johnson-a-coward\/","title":{"rendered":"Wil Wheaton Calls Dwayne Johnson A Coward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dwayne Johnson is facing backlash for staying quiet on politics, with &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; icon George Takei telling him that &#8220;silence is complicity&#8221; and &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; actor Wil Wheaton adding: \u201cSo disappointing to find out he is such a coward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson told Fox News in 2024 that he\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bAvseaYh1f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bAvseaYh1f<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2072107629329936878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson&#8217;s recent comments to Esquire about wanting to &#8216;keep my politics to myself&#8217; have divided fans, with some calling out his silence,&#8221; Takei wrote. &#8220;Silence is complicity&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSo disappointing to find out he is such a coward,&#8221; Wheaton wrote in response to Takei\u2019s post<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve learned I\u2019m going to keep my politics to myself,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;Politics is omnipresent and it\u2019s forever. I don\u2019t like it\u2026. I hate it at times. I hate the slinging. I hate all the bulls&#8212; that comes with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2072107629329936878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132544837.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne Johnson is facing backlash for staying quiet on politics, with &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; icon George Takei telling him that &#8220;silence is complicity&#8221; and &#8220;Stand By Me&#8221; actor Wil Wheaton adding: \u201cSo disappointing to find out he is such a coward.\u201d Johnson told Fox News in 2024 that he\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/bAvseaYh1f \u2014 Variety (@Variety) June 30, 2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-249686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}