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
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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.
