>>19258292Trump was on several other TV shows and movies so I doubt him not appearing in WWE would have affected him running for president
The Mr. McMahon character not being a thing definitely could have happened without the screwjob, though
I think Austin still would have been a big star without the Vince feud, but only within the wrestling world. It was his feud with Vince that really got him mainstream appeal because it was an eternally pissed-off guy on weekly TV regularly cussing out his asshole boss and beating him up
A lot of Americans (and people even outside the US) connected with that