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On 1 February 2017 the pop culture site Pajiba published what appeared to be an announcement by film and WWE star Dwayne The Rock Johnson that he would be running for President of the United States in 2020. That putative announcement opened as follows: In truth, Pajiba creative director Dustin Rowles told us in an e-mail, the post was not meant to deceive, but was instead presented as a best-case scenario Johnson, who is reportedly a Republican Party member and appeared at the GOP's national convention in 2000, has floated the idea of running for office on several occasions. He told the British edition of GQ magazine in June 2016 that: A month later, ABC News aired a segment based around the possibility of Johnson's pursuing the presidency, in which he told interviewer Michael Strahan that: In November 2016, Johnson similarly told Reuters that: After being named Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine that same month, Johnson was quoted as saying: The actor and occasional World Wrestling Entertainment performer has not responded to the faux announcement. On the day it was published, he was promoting his partnership with Ford Motors on Twitter.
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