Trump’s 80th birthday #UFC stunt on the South Lawn of the #WhiteHouse on Sunday night was a mass-media spectacle unlike any in the history of the presidency.
#Trump sat ringside beside his wife, Melania Trump, as fighters whaled on one another inches away inside an 8-sided cage wrapped in #cryptocurrency ads. All 5 of his children & nearly all his grandchildren sat around him.
#grotesquerie #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ufc-trump-white-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Thousands more were there on the lawn beneath a 600-ton steel-arch contraption called the Claw. The White House dwarfed by the fighting pit packed with #billionaires, #cabinet members & #Republican “lawmakers”.
It was all such an astonishing sight for so many reasons: The use of the trappings of the White House for violent cage fighting. The corporate sponsorships. The eruptions of casual cruelty.
At one point, a fighter [the 🤬🤬🤬filth] took the mic & made a nasty joke about Michelle Obama while standing in front of the house she once lived in with her husband, daughters & mother.
Even for a clown with a lifelong penchant for P.T. Barnum-esque gambits, this one was in a league of its own.
Much of the #WhiteHouse was given over to this production. Fighters were filmed walking out through various rooms inside the residence & warming up, barefoot….
…#UFC is wholly different from the boxing matches #Trump presided over in the 1980s. Next to it, professional wrestling is the New York City Ballet. The Octagon is a place of brutal entertainment, a raw pageant of pain. It’s #cockfighting with men as birds.
Between bouts, #women in skimpy #objectifying get-ups saunter around the edge of the ring. At one point, a triumphant fighter named Josh Hokit—the 🤬 who made the remark about Michelle Obama—…draped a chain over Trump’s neck.
On & on it went. More men beat each other. A video of Conor McGregor talking smack blared on the lawn. Pyrotechnics shot out from the appendages of the claw. #US #military jet planes flew low overhead.
There were several fights over the course of the evening. In one of them, a man from Philly with bleach-blond hair was down on his back, trying to fend off a fighter…when a gust of wind blew in & lifted up #Trump’s “hair”. He reached up to pat it back down around the sides of his head…
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There’s this filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl that they teach in study of propaganda, and sports documentaries
This will go in that history class
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