Hulk Hogan rips his shirt off and screams 'Let Trumpamania Make America Great Again' in wild convention speech telling 'low-lifes' and 'drug dealers': 'What you gonna do?'

Wrestling great Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt to expose a Trump-Vance tanktop during a wild speech onstage Thursday night at the Republican National Convention. 

'Let Trumpamania Make America Great Again,' Hogan shouted as the crowd cheered, as the newly political retired wrestler called Trump, a longtime associate, a 'hero' and a 'gladiator.'

Hogan said those attending the RNC in Milwaukee were 'real Americans,' suggesting they should refer to themselves as 'Trumpites' should the GOP nominee be reelected in the fall. 

He called Trump and vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance 'the greatest tag team in my life' and warned they were 'getting ready to straighten this country out for all you real Americans.'

'So all you criminals, all you low-lifes, all you scumbags, all you drug dealers and all you crooked politicians need to answer one question for me. What you gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you brother?'  

Wrestling great Hulk Hogan ripped off his shirt to expose a Trump-Pence tanktop during a wild speech onstage Thursday night at the Republican National Convention

Hulk Hogan waves to the crowd as he makes his Republican National Convention debut Thursday night in Milwaukee

Hulk Hogan walked onstage holding the American flag after outing himself as a supporter of former President Donald Trump

Hogan came onstage carrying an American flag and dressed in an American flag t-shirt dressed up with a blue blazer. 

But that professional look didn't last long, as the wrestler shredded his top layer and flexed his muscles, marching alongside the podium. 

'You know Trumpites, I didn't come here as Hulk Hogan but I had to give you a little taste,' he teased. 

He then introduced himself to the audience as Terry Bollea and as a person who has known Trump for some 35 years. 

The Republican nominee had walked back into the Fiserv Forum for the second time Thursday night, this time accompanied by most members of his family, including daughter Ivanka Trump, who was making her Milwaukee debut.

'I just had a flashback man, this is really tripping,' he told the crowd. 'You know the last time I was onstage Donald Trump was sitting ringside at Trump Plaza,' Hogan recalled. 

Trump Plaza was one of the ex-president's casino hotels in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 

'I was bleeding like a pig,' Hogan went on. 'And I won the world title right in front of Donald J. Trump!'  

A vintage shot of Donald Trump (left) and wrestling great Hulk Hogan (right) during Wrestlemania in 1987 

Prior to taking the stage, Hogan told Fox News Bret Baier that Saturday's assassination attempt moved him into action, as he hadn't previously been a public supporter of the ex-president despite their decades-long relationship and Trump's other close ties with WWE.  

'Well, you know, Bret, I got tired of remaining silent,' Hogan said. 'You know, I sat back and watched the borders collapse. I watched the economy collapse. You know, I watched the price of gas, the price of food, everything just do an upside-down flip.'

'And when they took a shot at my hero Donald Trump, I realized that I couldn't be silent anymore,' Hogan said. 

Hogan posted a message to his Facebook page Saturday, which included the now iconic shot of Trump, blood spattered on his face, with his fist up. 

'It rattled me to my core when this happened,' Hogan said. 'And when I saw him stand up with that fist in the air and the blood on his face as a warrior, as a leader, I realized that's what America needs.' 

'I knew it all along,' the famed wrestler continued. 'I was just afraid to speak out, but when I saw that, it just made me realize that is the leader that this country needs to get back on track.'