Dwayne Johnson says he won’t run for president, after all
After years of flirting with a possible White House bid, Dwayne Johnson says a presidential campaign is now “off the table.” Instead, he says his first priority is fatherhood. “The Rock” addressed his on-off interest in the Oval Office in a teaser clip from the next edition of “CBS Sunday Morning.” “It’s off the table.
Yes. It is off the table,” he emphasized in the clip, released Friday (Oct. 7), via Consequence Film. “I will say this because it requires a B side to this. I love our country and everyone in it. I also love being a daddy. Especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives,” said “The Rock,” who shares Simone, 21, with ex Dany Garcia, and Jasmine, 6, and Tiana, 4, with wife Lauren Hashian.
“Because I know what it was like to be on the road and be so busy that I was absent for a lot of years in my first daughter’s growing up in this critical age and at this critical time in her life.” Dwayne, 50, said in 2017 that running for office was “a real possibility.” Three years later, he said he’d “seriously considered” it again.
He was still open to the idea in 2021, when he told USA Today he’d consider a presidential run “if that’s what the people wanted.” Speaking to CBS, however, he clarified that’s no longer the case. “My No. 1 priority is my daughters,” he said. “Sure, CEO sounds great. But the No. 1 thing I want to be is daddy. That’s it.”
Source: wonderwall.com
