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250 years after the Declaration of Independence by the #UnitedStates , this ⬇️ is what ‘freedom’ looks like at the #WhiteHouse when our #PublicEducation system has lost its focus on #education.

#Resist intelligently.

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.

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….

#Trump #grotesquerie #idiocracy #UFC

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.

#Trump #grotesquerie #idiocracy #UFC #WhiteHouse

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@variety_feed/116751984544364725

250 years after the Declaration of Independence by the #UnitedStates , this ⬇️ is what ‘freedom’ looks like at the #WhiteHouse when our #PublicEducation system has lost its focus on #education.

#Resist intelligently.

The spectacle is estimated to cost >$60 million, acc/to Mark Shapiro, who is the president of UGC’s parent company, TKO Group Holdings. (not coincidentally Trump purchased between $15,000 & $50,000 worth of stock in #TKO weeks ahead of the event that he has been promoting for months #InsiderTrading).

#Trump #WhiteHouse #SouthLawn #UFC #Grotesquerie #WhiteTrash #LikeSchoolOnSaturday #NoClass

#Grotesquerie

How #Trump Transformed the #WhiteHouse Lawn Into a Fighting Arena

…Back in late May…construction began on the towering, claw-like superstructure that now sits on the #SouthLawn, ready to stage #UFC bouts Sunday for Trump’s 80th birthday.

#GiftArticle
#WhiteTrash #LikeSchoolOnSaturday #NoClass
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/14/us/politics/trump-white-house-claw-ufc-fight.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qFA._c5t.n4ukV1gW_GJp&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Boooooo!!!

A federal judge rejected a request from 2 Virginia residents to block #Trump from hosting an unseemly #UFC fight at the #WhiteHouse for his birthday this weekend.

The order came in a case brought last weekend by 2 people in Virginia who argued the #private event cannot be lawfully held on the White House’s #SouthLawn or the #LincolnMemorial, where other aspects of it are expected to take place Friday before the main event on Sunday.

#law
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/politics/white-house-freedom-250-ufc-fight-lawsuit