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The White House is set to a host an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event next year as part of 4 July celebrations in the US to mark the 250th anniversary of the country's founding.

The octagon cage fight event was announced by UFC boss Dana White, whose friendship with the president dates back to the early 2000s when Trump hosted some of the first ever UFC events at his business properties.

"It is definitely going to happen," White told CBS Mornings.

White said he planned to meet with the president and his daughter Ivanka at the end of the month to finalise the plans. A White House official confirmed the event to the BBC.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Fuck me I am so goddamn bone-tired of this idiocy

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yet nobody in the US is lifting a finger more than online outrage and one "no kings" protest

What do you want the rest of the world to do? A regime change invasion?

My comment is not directed personally at you, but america as a whole

I see lots of online outrage, but nobody storming the capitol or boston tea party part 2... For a country that prides itself on a history of direct action against tyranny, the response so far is underwhelming

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The revolutionary conundrum:

Act alone, and become another useless Luigi sitting in prison.

Act with a few hundred, and be listed as terrorists and thrown in prison.

You need tens of thousands for a movement to get out the door.

And everybody is waiting for the third option, but nobody has a plan.

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The older I grow, the quicker I realize Idiocracy was a documentary of the future to come.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No... If idiocracy was real, president comacho would recruiting the smartest people on earth to fix the problems, not filling those positions with sycophants from fox news

[–] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

We’re not at that part yet, a few more years are needed

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I want to apologize to people who kept sharing this sentiment over a decade ago and I kept telling them that idiocracy's explanation of dumbing down evolution was borderline fiction lol.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Release the trump/Epstein files, president Camacho!

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Camacho was actually a decent president.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago

I look forward to watching President Dwayne Alozondo Camacho unite both sides of the house with a combination of wrestling and porn.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Only the white trashiest of ideas

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Release the Epstein files.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So this is the "circuses" part. Next must be the "bread".

[–] zero@fek.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

The White House will be converted to a colliseum

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 12 points 5 days ago

Just Gross.

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

I like watching UFC, but this might be the trashiest thing ever done

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

Teddy Roosevelt would compete. But he was a real president.

[–] lornosaj@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago
  1. I thought I bit an onion.
  2. They’re seriously being inspired by Idiocracy?
  3. Release the Epstein files.
[–] zero@fek.xyz 5 points 4 days ago

Is this the 3-way Trump, Putin, Nethanyahu fight?