Is Trump going in the fighting ring?
this post was submitted on 26 May 2026
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I saw this before and genuinly thought it was a meme or image manipulation, lol
No worse than LBJ’s demolition derby arena or Carter’s Tractor-Pull-a-Palooza, except for the fact that those are totally made up and never occurred because why the hell would they ever have???
I went to Jimmy Carter's Tactor-Pull-a-Palooza and all I got was this stupid shirt.
I went to Carter’s Pull-a-Palooza but I had to sell my peanut farm
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To be honest, neither of those sound nearly as tacky or gauche as this does to me, something about it being UFC/MMA or if it were boxing during it's peak or even pro wrestling make it this gross mix of gladiatorial combat, organized crime, and carny shit that really shouldn't be anywhere near the President. Its not wrong to enjoy any of those as entertainment even if someone is currently the President, hell I love pro wrestling when there good storylines and characters, I'm not what you would normally call a classy person. But this gives me a very particular 'ick' and I'm not quite sure how to describe it.
I can't believe UFC is still a thing. I stopped watching when every fight was a title bout. And here we have interim intermingled heavy weight title bout. It was all meaningless at that point who has the title. And they want every fight to be a title bout cause it sells more ppv.
LBJ didn’t have to resort to tough guy tropes and ritualized masculinity displays to convince people he had the biggest dick in the room.
I mean he literally whipped it out in front of journalists and diplomats as a ritualistic display. Let’s not gloss over the shitty aspects of former presidents just to compare them to this president full of shitty aspects.
https://people.com/lyndon-b-johnson-nsfw-president-11830816
Things I learned from Red White and Royal Blue.
You’re telling me the guy that escalated the Vietnam War was a piece of shit?!?
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we are living the Idiocracy prequel
Kash Patel can’t not ever look like he just got pulled over while high.
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What a fucking disgrace. The exact type of spectacle you'd expect from the magats. Obsessed with being alpha while simultaneously the biggest fucking losers you've ever seen.
Idiocracy moving briskly apace
Idiocracy is one of the most unrealistic portrails of the US executive branch (the house of representin is spot on) President Dwayne Elezondo MtnDew Herbert Camacho is actually the best fictional president. He had a problem,
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found the most qualified person to solve it.
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listened to them (reluctantly) then.
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didnt take much credit for it, once it was solved
No other president would have done any of those things... Perhaps Carter.
I'd believe that would definitely make Comancho the greatest president the US had ever seen.
Ten bucks says there will be some kind of "assassination attempt" that will happen at this event.
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So we need to build a billion dollar ballroom so the president can be safe during events, but also, fuck it, just put up a temporary structure and invite 5000 people to watch a ufc fight on the lawn?
He is such an embarrassment
I had to check three times - this is not The Onion. This is real, and humor is dead.
I still think it's The Onion.
You can't make this stuff up. They originally wanted the fight on July 4th, but for unknown logistical reasons it had to be moved to Trumps birthday.
I see Trump's plan to destroy the country while making us a laughingstock is going well.
To be fair, 'Murica has always been a laughing stock
He's just showing 'Murica for what it really is, without people trying to put lipstick on that pig
I hate this timeline so fucking much.
This skidmark is such an embarrassment to the world and to the country.
Who would have thought that the big birthday party of the most powerful nation on earth would be reduced to something like this. They threw a good national birthday party back in 1976.
Clown country
Shithole country*
I actually thought this was an onion article at first glance, what the fuck
What an unbecoming thing of the office of the president
I think it exemplifies what that office has become
So embarrassing...
This reminds me of that scene in Django Unchained, where the rich white plantation owner makes poor people fight each other to death for entertainment
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Travesty
With every day that passes we lean harder into Idiocracy.
I really wish that time travel existed just so we could see the reactions of the founding fathers to what US politics have become
Washington: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
I assume he'd say "I warned you."
Damn. He called it exactly.
Probably love it. You had rich white dudes who didn't want to pay taxes. How do you think your country would turn out.
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Elect a reality tv star as president get a reality tv presidency.
(That being said, he’s not leaving)
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