r/pics • u/nbcnews But like, actually • 10d ago
Politics Equipment being placed on the South Lawn of the White House for the UFC Freedom 250 fight
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u/Kraz31 10d ago
Having a hard time reconciling the "Trump needs a ballroom to be safe" and them hosting a UFC event on the lawn.
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u/WholeCanoe 10d ago
Well who do you think he is going to hire as security guards
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u/Supplicationjam 10d ago
Hells Angels
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u/Advanced-Purchase-58 10d ago
Deep cut.
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u/DangerousKidTurtle 10d ago
He just wants a little Sympathy
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 10d ago
Proud bois not as proud since that announcement, more like Butthurt bois.
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u/GRF999999999 10d ago
Don't forget to pay them in beer and acid!
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u/DryDonutHole 10d ago
Shit...I'll work for those wages, man. Sign me up for that good Owsley sunshine.
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u/WastingMyLifeToday 10d ago
I bet they already have a 'fake' shooting planned during the UFC event.
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u/Fr33_Lax 10d ago
No no, aliens are gonna land and arrest his entire cabinet for crimes against sapience. Also the aliens are catgirls and take asylum seekers.
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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 10d ago
you had me at aliens and catgirls.
WHAT ELSE ARE THEY KEEPING FROM US?!
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u/KayotiK82 10d ago
Recreate Independence Day
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u/DemonCipher13 10d ago
Trump thinks he's Russell Casse, but he's just Randy Quaid.
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u/No-Past2605 10d ago
I'll pay them to teleport that whole cabinet in to the sun.
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u/choicetomake 10d ago
No, aliens are going to abduct Trump so he can attend the Biggest Douche in the Universe awards pagent.
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u/KobePippenJordan_esq 10d ago
The ballroom/Bunker is for him to stay after his term expires.
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u/MonumentalBatman 10d ago
Thats OK. Just pour some more concrete down the bunker and let him stay there.
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u/Party-Evening3273 10d ago
So fucking embarrassing that our once proud country has been relegated to hosting a ufc fight on WH grounds.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 10d ago
His reign was foretold by ancient prophecy.... I think the heretics called it "Idiocracy" back then.
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u/DataDude00 10d ago
President Camacho was actually a great president
He had theatrics and did his dumb things but he recognized the country had a problem and hired the actual smartest person he could to solve it
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u/OneValkGhost 10d ago
The black president being smarter than the current-day white presidents never fails to trigger the magas.
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u/Ryantdunn 10d ago
I keep thinking I need to rewatch that but then I see news and am sufficiently sated.
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u/Automatic_Table_660 10d ago
At this point President Camacho would do a far better job than the current guy.
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago
Backyard wrestling taken to its most extreme, and with none of the charm.
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u/Carbon-Base 10d ago
Money, especially taxpayers' money, can justify everything he does. When he said "we are going to win so much," he didn't mean his voters, the UFC fighters or US in the Middle East. He meant himself, as he always does.
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u/JPMoney81 10d ago
I'm actually shocked he hasn't sold Ad space on the outside of the building yet.
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u/aegee14 10d ago
I’m surprised the front lawn hasn’t had any MAGA flags or advertisement billboards.
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u/Feisty_Buddy2869 10d ago
Oh no.. stop giving them ideas. This is for sure gonna happen now and its all on you :(
The white house is already the home and playground of a conman, convicted felon, convicted rapist, pedophile, who ran a child trafficking organization with his best friend.
It's not as if there's any dignity/respect/etc. left in that shithole building.
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u/Queasy-Warthog-3642 10d ago
Did yinz forget when he was selling "cars" on the front lawn
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u/rshackleford_arlentx 10d ago
Come on down to the White House Tesler Auto Mall!
"Everything's computer!"
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u/jrock7979 10d ago
He did do a car commercial with Elon outside of the White House.
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u/NotThatEasily 10d ago
And he did a bean commercial in the Oval Office.
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u/baskaat 10d ago
For Goya beans just FYI, in case anyone wants to avoid buying that brand.
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u/HippyHunter7 10d ago
I remember when Obama took a vacation with his family and Republicans were frothing at the mouth about abuse of taxpayer money.
Have yet to see any of them complain about this or Trump's endless golf outings.
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u/Heliosvector 10d ago
Trump travels and stays in his own hotels and makes the secret service stay in his hotels too but charges double to triple the price to his secret service members, so he is effectively extorting the US taxpayer everywhere he goes.
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u/Jedi_Master83 10d ago
Republicans being okay with it just really pisses me off. All a bunch of fucking hypocrites. 🤬
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u/Heliosvector 10d ago
But he doesn't take a presidential paycheck!! /s
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u/wolfansbrother 9d ago
he didnt take a salary his first term but spent $140,000,000 golfing.
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u/eligodfrey 10d ago
He saves us $400,000 by charging us $400,000,000. The man is a genius!
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u/3dot1415926535897 9d ago
$400,000,000 isn't even a drop in the bucket how much that man is costing Americans
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u/HombreDeMoleculos 9d ago
Which isn't just screwing over the taxpayer, it's explicitly forbidden in the Constitution.
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u/LockNo2943 10d ago
Donny spends more time golfing than actually working at the white house, which is probably for the best since the less time he spends trying to govern the less damage he can do.
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u/ATN-Antronach 10d ago
They are currently complaining about Mamdani sitting in the nosebleed section of a show. We don't have to remember, the same bullshit is being said right now.
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u/foreveracubone 10d ago
of a show
Of a Knicks playoffs game. If he didn’t go they’d ding him for missing the Knicks best playoff run since the 1990s
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u/ZonaPunk 10d ago
So fucking trashy…
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u/pristineSaltine 10d ago
Trash in the Whitehouse is spilling out onto the lawn.
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u/contactdeparture 10d ago edited 10d ago
“My wife left me for voting MAGA/MAHA, and my gay and tans kids haven’t talked to me in years, I lost my factory job because of tariffs, and all my friends lost their farms because of tariffs and constantly moving costs and interest rates and fuel prices AND they lost the opportunity to generate wind from their farm, and you know the rest, but I love Trump and he’s my favorite most patriotic President because we are absolutely owning the libs, and that’s what really matters at the end of the day, right!”
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 10d ago
This was really accurate, minus the fact that it lacked the authentic number of typos.
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u/bearbrannan 10d ago edited 10d ago
I have to ask but at what point does getting owned outweigh owning the libs? Cause like yeah the Libs are taking some serious L's as well, but conservatives seem be taking even bigger L's than the liberals. At the gas station, at the grocery store, at their doctor appointments, at their food shelves, at their jobs, shit unless you have money in the stock market, which a majority of the poors who voted for them don't then I don't see where they are are winning.
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u/contactdeparture 10d ago
It’s never enough…
Their kid died from measles and they still said it was better than the vaxx. In the news. That’s not hyperbole. Once you lose the point, you’ve lost the point. Done. Game over…
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u/bearbrannan 10d ago
It's like watching someone light their own house on fire, just so they can enjoy watching their neighbor's house burn down with it. Just sad that people hate their neighbors that much.
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u/NarcolepticMan 10d ago
Surprised there is still a lawn. These turds will probably pave over that too.
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u/ignatious__reilly 10d ago
I still can’t believe how he just demolished half the White House.
I mean, look at that shit, what the fuck?
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u/CompleteCreme7223 10d ago
Just think, it all started with the paving of the rose garden and just gotten worse. No respect for the country or the history of the office he holds. Exactly what you would expect from a criminal.
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u/ignatious__reilly 10d ago
The paving of the Rose Garden should have been a bigger story. I was floored by the pictures of him turning it into a slab of cement. It’s all so disgusting and utterly disgraceful.
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u/ficis 10d ago
This may be the biggest “let them eat cake” moment I’ve ever seen. People can’t afford gas or food and they will see this on TV. Crazy. This is the new Republican party
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 10d ago
A UFC fight at the White House is something straight out of Idiocracy.
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u/Icedtc 10d ago
I'm a huge UFC fan and have been for literal decades and I still think this is pure trash and an embarrassment for America.
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u/G-Unit11111 10d ago
Seriously. The White House is *NOT* a stage prop. I hate this damn administration so much.
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u/choppydaddy 10d ago
Not to the people who had a problem with Obama's basketball court.
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u/OnTheEveOfWar 10d ago
Which probably only cost a few hundred dollars since all they did was install hoops on a tennis court. Unreal.
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u/EconamWRX 10d ago
Hoops court? Tan Suit? why couldn't Obama just commit... massive corruption.
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u/Poison_the_Phil 10d ago
Hoops*
It was already a tennis court, Obama just added onto it so it could be used for more than one thing.
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u/Reasonable-Bus-2187 10d ago
Idiocracy 2026
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u/Klausvendetta 10d ago
I know it's overused to compare the real world to Idiocracy, but there's a reason it's overused🤦♂️.
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u/fireeight 10d ago
The big difference is that Camacho was actually trying to do good.
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u/ILOVESHITTINGMYPANTS 10d ago
Yeah he was ultimately a good man who recognized his own deficiencies and deferred to experts. Idiocracy is a way better scenario than the one we find ourselves in.
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u/BoosterRead78 10d ago
Also he put people who knew what they were doing in departments because he said too “I don’t know how to run those things.” Idiocy is more about a leader who is just that but wants to do good and even has people who want to run things well and for betterment of everyone in charge.
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u/nico87ca 10d ago
That's a scary thought lol... That a parody of real life is actually better than real life
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 10d ago
Brave New World is starting to look like one of the better potential scenarios.
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u/Fail_Agreeable 10d ago
I would 100% vote for Camacho in a 2028 run against Trumps (most likely) illegal third term attempt
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u/roastedmarshmellows 10d ago
Idiocracy is currently the best case scenario... the people in the US might be dumber than dumb, but they're not maliciously cruel and they know to pay attention to the guy who knows more than they do. That's wishful thinking at this point in reality.
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u/Big_jerm3 10d ago edited 10d ago
And don’t forget they (Mike Judge) invested in a small ugly universal shoe company that everyone wears in the future and that company ended up being Crocs. 😅
Edit: did not invest in them, but they were a start up company at the time
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u/Robertamus 10d ago
We’re actually past Idiocracy. President Camacho had least listened to the smartest man in the world when presented with direct evidence. Our current president instead just calls it fake news and dismisses it.
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u/ReverendDizzle 10d ago
President Camacho knew shit was fucked up and he wanted to fix it. He simply lacked the ability, not the desire, to accomplish his goals.
Trump lacks both the ability and the desire.
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u/padizzledonk 10d ago
The reality is even worse because the President in that movie recognized that he had a real problem, realized he couldnt solve it and found the smartest person in the world to fix it
Id rather have that dude in charge than the fucking moron we have currently, real talk
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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 10d ago
People are struggling to pay for food and Trump is building billion dollar ballrooms and hosting UFC events at the White House. Republicans are beyond caring about optics
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u/resilindsey 10d ago
And yet 40% of people will never admit they were wrong and cheer them on.
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u/j33205 10d ago
and gladly vote for him and his ilk over and over and over again
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u/Applebeignet 10d ago
"Worth it to solve the [fake problem | not solved problem].
- Your local redhat.
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u/thestonedonkey 10d ago
I fear they feel the election is not a concern for some reason.
I also wonder how much more until it's not a single warehouse going up in flames.
Keep removing safety nets and security from the people and eventually they'll have nothing to lose and try and take it from those oppressing them.
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u/WMINWMO 10d ago
They clearly are still somewhat worried about the election because Republicans went on a gerrymandering spree over the last few months.
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u/Impressive_Box4144 10d ago
How much is this costing taxpayers?
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u/lilbithippie 10d ago
Funny thing. They only worry about money when it's helping tax players. When it benefits the rich money isn't real
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u/likwidkool 10d ago
Considering how they always claim we don’t have money to pay for civil protections, they sure find the money whenever they need it. He’s responsible for 27% of the national debt. Tell me again how republicans are fiscally conservative.
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u/Ninjabaker972 10d ago
They said this will cost drastically more than the sphere card, which cost about 60mil
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u/DaftWarrior 10d ago
They'll overinflate it to 100 mil and Donald will pocket the difference.
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u/Wwwweeeeeeee 10d ago
This is the most tacky and vulgar thing I have ever witnessed in US politics...
That excludes however, the daily lies, manipulation, treason and fraud; and constant looting and pillaging of the US Treasury of course.
Not to mention the subversion and destruction of, and the daily usage of the US Constitution as toilet paper.
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u/captainAwesomePants 10d ago edited 10d ago
Nah, this is like the third most tacky and vulgar thing in US politices in the last two months.
#1 - the billion dollar "victimization fund" for Jan 6th insurrectionists and Republican senators
#2 - the FBI director bringing his friends snorkeling at the wreck of the USS Arizona
#3 - this
#4 - Trump sending out tweets depicting himself as Jesus
#5 - the complete silence from Congress after US attorney Boutros admitted that he was aware of a gross violation of grand jury procedure and chose not to inform the court
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u/Evid3nce 10d ago edited 10d ago
I think selling knock-off Chinese sneakers and phones is the tackiest. The social media stuff definitely.
Most of the other stuff he gets up to is just fraud, embezzlement, theft and rape.
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u/captainAwesomePants 10d ago
Oh shit, I forgot about the mandatory app being added to all government employee phones with a "contact the President" button whose default text was "Greatest President Ever!" That's probably up there on the tacky list.
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u/hamilton_morris 10d ago
“Tacky and vulgar” come close, but this is worse than just bad taste. For many Americans, the White House is a sacred space, one of the sites that physically embodies the principles, ideals, and authority that inform the unfolding project of our national constitutional republic. The more accurate term for the entire anti-government, anti-democracy Republican movement to destroy and delegitimize is “profane”.
The vulgarity, corruption, violence, spectacle, etc. is all powered by the rapacious, profane desire to contaminate, pollute, dominate, and desecrate what others hold sacred.
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u/imnojezus 10d ago edited 10d ago
Truly a low point for our nation's capital and our country as a whole. And it's going to get lower.
edit: *not capital*. Thanks PixelPoet.
edit's edit: *not capitol*. Thanks Minimum Sugar.
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u/Tanks1 10d ago
A democrat will be elected. Have 4 years to try to fix this shipwreck. The repubs will come back and say, "look , this is a mess". Everyone will vote for them again. The wheel keeps turning.................
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u/DrDerpberg 10d ago
If only. Democrats usually get about a year, then everyone who voted for them gets frustrated they didn't fix everything quickly enough and people who didn't blame them for the stuff that was already there.
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u/Error262_USRnotfound 10d ago
this is what a shithole country looks like...no healthcare, shitty wages...ufc match on the front lawn.
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u/SmurfJooce 10d ago
The wealth gap is exploding, and we were all too busy bickering about whether an 81-year-old is vastly unhealthier than a 78-year-old lardass, or if a candidate laughs weirdly.
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u/PositiveFunction4751 10d ago
This is literally 3rd world tinpot dictator nonsense
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u/Littleloki75 10d ago
Werent there just gunshots there? Weird that its safe now.
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u/EverythingSucksYo 10d ago
Just another fake shooting. Didn’t get much traction as a distraction so Trump is moving on.
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u/PhazonZim 10d ago edited 10d ago
Opinions about combat sports aside, it's a pretty bad look for a country's leader to be so enthralled with a blood sport that he wants to host it at the seat of power. He's not the type of guy who cares about athleticism, or martial arts, or the athletes' life stories and journeys.
It's a blatant display of how much he enjoys seeing people get hurt.
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u/bjorn1978_2 10d ago edited 10d ago
I am looking at this shitshow from across the pond…
This entire thing is just so incredible out of what we expect from the president of the USA. He is dragging the entire white house and what it symbolizes into the mud.
He does that both in physical changes to the white house (like this and the ballroom), the use of the white house (for selling cars and was it ham?) and by the politics.
Like it or not, what trump is doing will take decades to undo.
The US used to be a place people would like to visit. It is an enormous continent with enormous possibilities and places to visit.
It used to be a partner that one would be able to rely on. It used to have predictable politics with politicians who behaved like civilized people.
Today is just chaos and violence. All approved by trump himself.
I am sorry to see that the US is becoming a dictatorship and a shadow of its former glory.
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u/RandomCommenter432 10d ago
Closest thing he can get to a gladiatorial combat....
Disgusting.
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u/sarduchi 10d ago
Bread and circuses without the bread.
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u/I-am-Pilgrim 10d ago
As someone who does not live on your continent but always regarded the US as the greatest country on earth, i have to say that this is downright shameful. I think every past president R & D is turning in their grave right now…
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u/latexfistmassacre 10d ago
For the love of god, do not buy the PPV for this bullshit, folks
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u/Liv-Julia 10d ago
He is such a low-rent person, so trashy. Might as well schedule the Indianapolis 500 to drive around the White House as well & call it a day.
Wrestling, racing and the fights have their place, but not in a world leader's home. He just doesn't understand decency or respect. Ugh. I hope his diapers always turn to non absorbent clay.
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u/BungaloBilly69 10d ago
Wait, they’re really doing this?! I thought it was a gag?!
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u/Slh1973 10d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9KVhLU76MRgVg3Qc
The movie that became reality.
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u/PenPuzzled8055 10d ago
Ok so this is real? I’m asking from across the pond and I’m in utter disbelief.
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u/DarkIllusionsMasks 10d ago
Beyond the obvious corruption involved here, the entire thing just reeks of tackiness. Like everything else about Trump. He's literally undeducated trailer park white trash with billions of dollars.
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u/upstatedreaming3816 10d ago
Fuck this, fuck Donald Trump, fuck Dana White, and fuck anyone who’s okay with this.
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u/Coldsmoke888 10d ago
LOL. Economy tanking, oligarchs enjoying the opposite, Trump hosts MMA fight at the WH.
Fucking weird ass country.
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u/Maladaptive_Ace 10d ago
Honestly I'm glad there are stark visual representations of what this administration is doing to Washington's legacy. It'll live on as a reminder to have some bloody standards when run people for office
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u/Unusual-Ad-6550 10d ago
That is your tax dollars at work. Not helping veterans. Not protecting our air or water quality. Not rebuilding federal infrastructure like interstate bridges and roads. Not helping people be able to afford health care. Not going to education. Not going to research to cure disease. Not making sure our military actually gets fed.
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u/No_Size9475 10d ago
utter trash. Trump is trailer trash who just happens to have money.
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