Everyone On Social Media Comes Together To Slam John Cena’s Apology To China For Calling Taiwan A Country

B. Simmons May 25, 2021 in Movies Tagged China, F9, Fast & Furious, John Cena - 1 Minute

JOHN CENA rolls critical botch on [STEALTH]; everyone can see him.

So, apparently, John Cena made an error by referring to Taiwan as a country in the press tour leading up to the release of F9, the latest entry in the Fast & Furious franchise. And, well, China didn’t like that. So Cena made an apology video in Mandarin on Chinese social media site Weibo.

John Cena apologized in Chinese on Sina Weibo after calling Taiwan a country during an interview promoting Fast & Furious 9 pic.twitter.com/dzRKIYgEzL
— Joe Yizhou Xu, PhD (@JoeXu) May 24, 2021

And nobody outside China seemed to like that.

And it didn’t seem to be drawn up by political lines. Ben Shapiro, Jim Sciutto, Keith Olbermann all commented on it. Notably, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton simply called his apology “pathetic“.

But it wasn’t just people known for politics that responded.

I grew up watching this man never lose and always come through to save the day for me, tonight I see a coward who just lost to China.
— Randy Oreens (@ItBegins2012) May 25, 2021

What a sad day for all John Cena fans. The WWE’s John cena would have done the exact opposite in this situation. I guess this is his true side and he was just playing a role all these years
— matta (@matta43739481) May 25, 2021

https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1397274044928446464

…and the list goes on. Basically, most of the internet seems to want a Towelie moment:

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It’s unlikely to happen, though.

Source: New York Post

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