Dave Meltzer is a wrestling journalist. He's been one since he was 11 in 1980, when he started the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Bryan Alvarez, author and Creator of Figure Four Weekly, recently estimated that Meltzer has written about 65 million words, which makes him by far the most prolific wrestling writer.
After Trump's Michigan Miracle, Meltzer covered it. Why? well trump is and always has been a wrestling personality. Outside of having Linda McMahon in his cabinet. Trump sponsored Wrestlemania IV and V at The Trump Plaza Hotel, as well as taking part of a Wrestlemania 23 Hair VS. Hair match with Vince McMahon. He also briefly ran WWE's flagship show RAW for a brief time during 2009 and was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame in 2013.
The surprise here is that despite politics being out of Meltzer's wheelhouse, He gives what I think is the best recap of the 2016 election.
He writes that Trump won because the country felt that Clinton didn't care about minorities. He says that the election was between 2 horrible candidates, and says he's never seen something like it.
Meltzer then ties it into wrestling, mentioning the power of Trumps 'promos' against the news media.
He mentions a ton of Japanese wrestlers who've gone into politics, as then he draws a great comparison between Trump's upset win and the time Jesse Ventura, another wrestling personality, became Governor of Minnesota. He describes both as people going on a 'bender' and voting to stick it to the establishment.
Meltzer claims that Trump's win was mainly due to voters rejecting Hillary Clinton. HE then notes that any discussion of politics at this point is risky as people are going to be upset due to the divided country.
He ends the story talking about his hope that things will work out in the future.
Meltzer stays unbiased as you can, and tries to spin a positive ending out it.
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