Dwayne Johnson popped off over accusations he was booed for not following by way of on assist to Maui … calling the declare “false clickbait rubbish” in a livid response on X.

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

Sortor claimed these folks have been berating Johnson for not following by way of on his promise to assist the island of Maui following the devastating wildfires final summer season.

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

However, DJ wasn’t having this interpretation of occasions — as a substitute 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 occasions to attract consideration” to himself earlier than explaining his personal position of villain on the presser Thursday.

He went on to say 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 hundreds of survivors who have been affected by the fires.

He praised the resilience of these folks whose lives have been uprooted by the fires and wrote on to Sortor “as a substitute of posting bulls*** like this that you realize is fake – I encourage you to submit one thing constructive for Hawaii, for our Polynesian American folks. Or really take constructive motion and are available to Hawaii to assist out in an uplifting manner.”

He inspired Nick to make use of his platform to raise up the folks of Hawaii as a substitute of attempting to tear him down … and apologized to “all our Poly/Hawaiian ohana of Maui, for shining gentle on this toxicity as you wrestle by way of robust instances.”

BTW … Sortor is not backing down — responding on X by saying he is additionally based mostly in Hawaii and Dwayne has his contact information, so he is completely satisfied to fulfill Johnson each time he needs.

FWIW … a neighborhood word 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 widespread Disney film “Moana,” so it might’ve been yelled in a very completely different context.

The Maui fires reportedly killed 100 folks, leaving many extra injured and homeless — it is a delicate subject … one which clearly set Johnson off.