Now that there’s a hold on the return of Persian civilization to the Stone Age, let’s focus on something so important that we can all rely on its well-prepared, prioritized occurrence. That would be UFC coming to the Blight House.
UFC—Ultimate Fighting Championship—is a sport that celebrates violence. Call it bar room brawling in bare feet. It’s particularly popular with those enamored of extreme masculine stereotypes.
Also known as cage-match fighting, it will be coming to the White House in June to help celebrate President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday as well as to be part of America’s 250th anniversary. A 5,000-seat arena will be constructed on the White House lawn.
“This will be one of the greatest and most historic sports events in history,” exclaimed White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, who, BTW, is a former UFC spokesperson.
It’s all too appropriate.
Cage-match fighting–or “human cockfighting” as described by the late Sen. John McCain–is the perfect MAGA metaphor. The veneration of bloody, brute force is ironically and indecorously appropriate for Trump’s bombastic, no-holds-barred, cartoonish-optics approach to governance.
Morphing a WH lawn into a MAGA-macho, fistic milieu should be seen as a societal affront, one that seems more like an over-the-top skit on brutish masculinity from Saturday Night Live.
BTW, what else might be looming as suitable celebrations for this Trump Blight House? How about a Congressional Corn Hole tournament or an ICE dodge ball competition?