The crowd included #tech & #media #billionaires #MarkZuckerberg & #DavidEllison. Sen #JohnThune (R-SD), the majority leader, was there, as was Sen #TedCruz (R-TX). The secretaries of #state, #Treasury, #defense, #commerce & #HomelandSecurity were there. So was the VP, the #FBI “director” & Karoline Leavitt, the #WhiteHouse #press Secy, who is on maternity. Kid Rock showed up, & so did Roger Clemens & Robert Kraft. James Dolan, the owner of the NY #Knicks, walked up to #Trump to pay his respects.
… #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.