Dwayne Johnson Responds To Claim He Was Booed For Not Helping Wildfire Victims

Dwayne Johnson popped off over accusations he was booed for not following via on support to Maui … calling the declare “false clickbait garbage” in a livid response on X.

Here’s the deal … Nick Sortor — an web persona who has appeared on networks like Fox Information and Newsmax — posted a video to Twitter displaying folks at a WWE occasion raining jeers down on The Rock.

Sortor claimed these folks had been berating Johnson for not following via on his promise to help the island of Maui following the devastating wildfires final summer time.

He even pointed to some followers’ chanting within the vid … claiming they had been saying “Maui” time and again — and should you take heed to the clip, it does sound like that is precisely what they’re yelling.

However, DJ wasn’t having this interpretation of occasions — as an alternative hopping on X to slam Sortor’s evaluation and insisting he was being booed for enjoying “the heel” in a WWE press convention — skilled wrestling-ese for “the villain.”

Johnson mentioned he tries to remain above the social media fray typically, however determined to right Nick as a result of he used “Hawaii’s tragic events to draw attention” to himself earlier than explaining his personal position of villain on the presser Thursday.

He went on to assert The Individuals’s Fund of Maui — kicked off by himself and Oprah Winfrey in August with a $10 million donation — has delivered greater than $50 million to 1000’s of survivors who had been affected by the fires.

He praised the resilience of these folks whose lives had been uprooted by the fires and wrote on to Sortor “instead of posting bulls*** like this that you know is false – I encourage you to post something positive for Hawaii, for our Polynesian American people. Or actually take positive action and come to Hawaii to help out in an uplifting way.”

He inspired Nick to make use of his platform to elevate up the folks of Hawaii as an alternative of making an attempt to tear him down … and apologized to “all our Poly/Hawaiian ohana of Maui, for shining light on this toxicity as you struggle through tough times.”

BTW … Sortor is not backing down — responding on X by saying he is additionally based mostly in Hawaii and Dwayne has his contact data, so he is pleased to satisfy Johnson every time he needs.

FWIW … a neighborhood notice has been added to Sortor’s tweet explaining the context of the booing video — and the group could have been shouting “Maui” however that is additionally The Rock’s character’s identify from the extremely well-liked Disney film “Moana,” so it may’ve been yelled in a very completely different context.