WWE's McMahon trumps Trump with Raw buyback

That didn't take long.

The storyline featuring Donald Trump "buying" Monday Night Raw from World Wrestling Entertainment's Vince McMahon lasted all of one week. On Monday's commercial-free Raw from Green Bay, Wisc., McMahon bought the show back from Trump for "double the original price." Trump took the deal and smacked McMahaon across the chops for his trouble.

The show capped a day-long publicity festival for the WWE in which local network news affiliates flocked to the Green Bay airport to shoot Trump arriving and to hear speeches from him and McMahon. It was the first time any media set foot in that airport without Brett Favre being involved.

While it's possible this was always going to be a quick angle, it seems like a lot of fuss over a storyline that lasted all of a week. No one at WWE will ever break the code of never revealing backstage business, but it's likely that the bad press over the faked Trump buy of Raw (and the subsequent fall-off of WWE stock) made this whole thing something McMahon and USA Network wanted to body slam quickly.

It worked out well for the Packer fans in residence as everyone at Trump's Raw received a full refund on their ticket.