Emperor Trump Brings Gladiator Games With UFC White House Event
Donald Trump is hosting the Ultimate Fighting Championship on the White House lawn in a zeitgeist-defining event, aired live on the Ellison family’s Paramount+ streaming service
This weekend POTUS Donald Trump is hosting the Ultimate Fighting Championship on the White House lawn in a zeitgeist-defining event, aired live on the Ellison family’s Paramount+ streaming service, featuring ample opportunities for insider dealing and corruption.
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This US News report from March, when the event was officially announced, captures the normie view of the event pretty well:
Cage-match fighting is coming to the White House to fete President Donald Trump, a proud proponent of cage-match politics.
In the coming weeks, crews will erect a 6-foot (1.83 meter) wire-mesh fence shaped into an octagon on the lawn, where UFC fighters will use a combination of kickboxing, jiujitsu, wrestling and other martial arts in a June 14 mixed martial arts show timed for Trump’s 80th birthday and as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
The celebration of bloody, brute force dovetails with Trump’s gleefully combative charisma and extreme ideological masculinity — a brawling, no-holds-barred approach to the highest office in the land.
“I have respect for fighters, you know, when you can take 200 shots to the face and then look forward to the second round,” Trump told podcaster Logan Paul as he campaigned for his second term.
Trump was the first sitting president to attend a UFC show, taking in a 2019 fight that was stopped because of a cut over the loser’s eye that left blood pouring down the fighter’s face.
To the uninitiated, the sport celebrates violence. It is wildly popular with young men.
