UPDATED 10/12 3:10 p.m. ET: After he said a run for president was “off the table,” Dwayne Johnson has suggested that he might still consider it in the future.
“I’m just really grounded and humbled by the interest on both sides. But the No.1 job, and my No. 1 title, that I love right now is daddy,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on Tuesday. "I have seriously considered it. You have to. When you start looking at some of these polls, and these numbers creep up into the 46%, 50% of the country would vote for me should I run, and I have been – I’ve been really moved by that."
So a run in 2024 definitely isn’t happening, but the response has inspired him to come back around to the idea somewhere down the line. Johnson is 50-years-old at the moment, so there’s still plenty of time for him to pivot to politics if he so wishes.
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Despite long-running speculation about his political aspirations, Dwayne Johnson has ruled out a potential run for president in the future.
In an appearance on CBS Sunday Morning, Johnson told Tracy Smith that he’s not interested in becoming POTUS. “It’s off the table. Yes. It is off the table,” Johnson said. “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. And that’s the most important thing to me is being a daddy, number one, especially during this time, this critical time in my daughters’ lives.”
He said if he were to take office, he’d have less time to spend with his family. “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 at this critical time in their life, and that’s what the presidency will do. So my number one priority is my daughters,” he continued. ““Sure, CEO sounds great. But the number one thing I wanna be is daddy. That’s it.”
In an interview with Variety in 2017, Johnson said that he would “100 percent consider” a run in 2024. Speaking with Vanity Fair more recently in 2021, he said he met with people to conduct “research and analysis to see” what running for president could be like. However, he concluded that he doesn’t “know the first thing about politics.” While he cares “deeply” about the United States, he made it clear he doesn’t “know the first thing about policy.”
Watch what Johnson had to say about running for POTUS above.
