Dwayne Johnson brags about 'masculine' Met Gala skirt, cites 'Polynesian culture'



Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a statement in more ways than one Monday night.

Johnson appeared at the 2026 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where he was asked — alongside his wife — about wearing a skirt.

'We rock skirts.'

Not to be outdone by wife Lauren Hashian's elegant white dress, the former WWE star showed up to the annual society shindig in a black mohair tailcoat and a bow tie, accessorized with a pleated skirt from designer Thom Browne.

"I feel great!" he replied, when reporters inquired about his bottom half.

Culture club

"Look, in our culture, Polynesian culture, we rock lavalavas, we rock skirts," the former Division 1 college football player said.

Johnson is half Samoan and a member of the legendary Anoaʻi family, who has deep ties in professional wrestling. The lavalavas are traditional Polynesian attire, often recognized for their floral patterns.

"The most masculine men, not that I'm one of them, but the most masculine men wear lavalavas and skirts," Johnson reiterated.

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Browne-ie points

While designer Browne currently lists 10 "men's skirts" on his website, the one most similar to Johnson's is the wool seersucker utility belt pleated skirt, which sells for just under $2,500.

Browne has long been known for his gender-bending designs. He's also dabbled in politics. In 2020, he designed a scarf that read "Believe in Better." The proceeds were donated to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

Other cross-dressing attendees at the Met Gala included Colorado-born actor Connor Storrie and Jacksonville, Florida's own Tyriq Withers. London-based singer Sam Smith, known for his obscene and often demonic looks, did not disappoint in that regard either.

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Former NFL player Danny Shelton wearing a lavalava in 2015. Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images

Final boss

There was also a strong contingent of transgender representation at the gala, including brother of actor Pedro Pascal, Lux, born Lucas Balmaceda Pascal. He wore a rather traditional gala dress.

Raising the bar even higher was Aaron Rose Philip, who was feted online for being the "first Black transgender woman with quadriplegic cerebral palsy signed to a major modeling agency."

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Time to Man Up

Scott Galloway can be annoying. In his book, Notes on Being a Man, he admits as much. A serial entrepreneur, popular podcast host, and marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Galloway is also not especially humble, but age and the experience of raising two boys prompted him to revisit his own childhood and to consider what it means to be a man in the 21st century. The picture he paints is grim: He sees "a generation of young men from all backgrounds who are (a) unbearably lonely, (b) not economically viable, (c) not emotionally viable, and (d) basically adrift."

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The fall of Tim Walz: The man that wasn’t ‘man enough’



As the journalist who exposed the rampant Somalian fraud in Minnesota, Nick Shirley, pointed out, he has “ended” Governor Tim Walz’s career after the governor announced he would not be seeking re-election following the media attention.

And BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere couldn’t be happier.

“I think it’s a really positive thing for the nation, for our world. He should go somewhere where we don’t have to see him anymore. Now, his family seems to love him, ... but the bottom line here is that he sucks, and I’m glad he’s out of my life,” Stu says, happily.

“Minnesota has to come first — always. Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids,” Walz wrote in a post on X, to which Stu interjects to laugh, “Especially if you need day care.”


“I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work,” Walz added.

And Stu is not surprised that the left’s attempt at pushing what they thought was a more masculine man on the American people failed.

“Someone pointed this out, and I think it’s a great observation, that Tim Walz is the idea that, like, a leftist DEI person would have of what a manly man from the Midwest was, right? Like this person that in their head they’re like, ‘Wow, that guy, he coaches football,’ right?” Stu comments.

Stu also points out that the Harris-Walz campaign also ran an ad that made this belief of theirs crystal clear.

The ad focused on the saying “man enough,” where a group of men talked about what made them “man enough” — like cooking their steak “rare” — before pivoting to what political beliefs they’re “man enough” to hold.

“Woman wants to be president? Well, I hope she has the guts to look me right in the eye and accept my full-throated endorsement,” one man featured in the campaign ad said, adding, “because I’m man enough to support women.”

“If your vision of what men are is that ad, you think that’s going to work, well, yeah, you picked Tim Walz,” Stu laughs. “Unbelievable.”

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Gavin Newsom laughs after Tim Walz claims he's too masculine: 'I'm not bulls**tting'



Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota boldly argues that the real reason his political opponents focus so much on him is not because of bad policy, but because of his overwhelming masculinity.

The failed vice presidential candidate joined fellow Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to discuss the "toxicity" in masculinity. In a clip of a March episode of "This Is Gavin Newsom" that circulated on social media this week, the California Democrat argued that this "toxicity" needs to be disentangled from masculinity, while Walz proudly exclaimed that his masculinity was simply too much for his political rivals to handle.

'I'm serious!'

"This notion of toxicity in masculinity needs to be separated," Newsom said. "And I think it's been conflated. And I think we're going to have to work on that a little bit."

Newsom began to describe the Democratic Party's regression among demographics like young men. But before Newsom could prescribe an antidote to the Democrats' loss with male voters, Walz chimed in to suggest that those who criticize him and some of his fellow male Democrats feel threatened by their masculinity.

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"I think some of us scare them," Walz replied. "I think I scare them a little bit. That's why they spend so much time on me."

Newsom erupted in laughter at the notion that Walz's masculinity was alienating young men from the Democratic Party.

"No, I'm serious!" Walz said. "Because I can fix a truck, they know I'm not bulls**tting on this."

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"I'm not putting this in people's grill," Walz said. "My identity is not hunting. My identity is not football coaching. My identity is not, you know, a beard and a truck."

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The SECRET every young man NEEDS to hear



Young men are inheriting a spiritually starving society, where they’re being sold a future of cheap pleasures, hollow heroes, and never-ending screen time.

It’s a lot of noise, and it will rob the youth of all purpose.

But Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has some advice.

“If there is anything virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy, seek those things. Don’t admire them. Don’t nod at them. Seek them. Hunt them. Chase them. Build your life around those things,” Glenn explains.


“A man who will do that, a boy, a young man who will do that, will become different, noticeably different. He will stop letting the culture feed him garbage. He stops applauding the trivial. He stops laughing at the obscene or cheering for the cruel. He will become a curator of real, lasting beauty in an age that has forgotten what beauty even looks like.”

“When other men are chasing down or holding up cynicism, this man holds up hope. When everyone around him is chasing dopamine, he chooses discipline. When others will blame their circumstance, he’ll take responsibility for his own action. When the world worships the shallow, he goes and searches for the deep.”

“You become what you seek. If you seek trash, you become trash. You seek virtue, you become a man of virtue. You seek excellence, and your life will begin to shine, not loudly, but steadily like the steel glow of a blade being forged.”

The world, Glenn says, already has a never-ending supply of “angry,” “addicted,” and “distracted” boys.

What it needs now, he explains, are men.

“Whole men. Clear-eyed men. Men whose souls are anchored to something higher than the algorithms trying to own them,” he says. “Build a life worthy of admiration. Forget about the applause. Fill your mind with words that make you wiser.”

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