How Trump allies could profit from White House UFC fight
President Donald Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company before announcing a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn to mark his 80th birthday. He helped design and is marketing branded medallions tied to the event called "UFC Freedom 250" and organizers are offering VIP hospitality packages priced as high as $1 million per person. The UFC is controlling credentials for who can access the grounds, and large crowds of fight fans have converged on Washington for the unusual White House fight night. Those moves link presidential authority to private commercial benefit and create clear conflicts of interest from staging a profit-generating event on federal property.
The president’s social media company is sponsoring the UFC event at the White House. The league is owned by one of his friends, and the event will be streamed to paid subscribers on Paramount+, a company whose merger the president just approved this weekend.
Middlerage27What’s more American than corruption??? 🤡
valdisronis.bsky.social18Let all of that sink in. Grift, much?
Julie18Good day to cancel that subscription.
uppergwladysblu.bsky.social7The league is not just ‘owned by his friends’, Trump holds $50000 worth of stock in UFCs parent company TKO. www.nytimes.com/athletic/731...
Nan ☮️7Cancelled Paramount+ and would love to cancel this corrupt administration!
Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦6The Trump regime: Corruption all the way down, through and through.
Mø5I didn't know Trump had actual friends. I stand corrected.
Gurl You In Danger💙4Grift, grift, grift. Grift, payback, grift. Payola, grift, payback, grift. Payoffs, grift, enrichment.
ab4aoc.bsky.social3How does the President have any authority over mergers?
grant2c.bsky.social3All of this must be undone. UnDONed.
abluefinch.bsky.social2Typical grift at taxpayer expense
Thomm532Grift on top of grift. The most corrupt government ever. UGH.
jcs77.bsky.social2I dropped my Paramount+ acct. for just these reasons.
Batty Fox2If not dictator then why so dictator-shaped
Sharon2American taxpayers are footing the bill for this but if you want to see it you have to use pay-per-view
steveboos.bsky.social2The corruption stinks worse than Donald Trump does. Hoping for at least 70MPH winds tonight and lots of heavy rain and lightning.
beardeddadbod.bsky.social2The swamp has officially been drained. 😬
upstateny.bsky.social2Its all a giant grift and dismantling of democracy. I can't believe any of this is happening. Apparently, the Constitutional guardrails are miles and miles away.
The UFC fight hasn’t even started yet, and the official White House Twitter account just posted the most complete, surreal proof of the total 4chan-weeb takeover of federal power that I’ve ever seen, or likely ever will see:
Faine Greenwood314I was among the people who took GamerGate deadly seriously over a decade ago (thanks to growing up in the 2000s reading Something Awful and 4chan regularly) - and yet, somehow, I feel like I didn’t take it seriously it enough?
Gwen Snyder is uncivil104What did I just watch on an official federal communications account
Samantha Ferreira is Planning AH Mag #235You know what's great? Spending your entire career building the idea that anime, as a medium, is something everyone can enjoy - that it's not something aimed at weird gooner Nazis, but rather a diverse community of fans ... Only for the weird gooner Nazis to pull shit like this EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.
Kevin Reuning32A lot of people talk about Gen Z takeover but the use of some very old memes makes me want to blame my generation. Or at least some dude who has had their brain cooked online for 25 years
Erin E. Worrel20A couple of weeks ago on here there was the best comment about this era that was something like - "We elected 4chan to the WH and we will never recover our dignity" and yep, that's it. Great job everyone.
🫧 Tyranny Sparkles 🫧19that felt like a 2007 tried to make a 1980’s Saturday morning cartoon ad
Soyweiser15I'm not up to date on all the references, but what strikes me from what I do know. All the non AI generated references are old. I mean 'over 9000' is 20 years old now. Not even a 67 or a skibidi toilet. They have lost the sauce.
Tamara Keel14I just tried to give my computer monitor a wedgie out of sheer spinal reflex.
Emi La Fae10Wild to start with a One Piece quote, end with a Persona 5 finisher, and think "Yeah we're the good guys in those stories" Not that they put any thought into it to begin with
Asher Langton10Looks like even his former sycophants on X have turned on Trump. Well, except for this guy.
hannah | חנה10watching this video aged me
Sean9"Is this the golden age" over the meme about how the guy has no idea what he's talking about is a bit too much for me.
Lisa Rokusek4Makes me ill. Surreal. And yes GamerGate feels right.
Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️⚧️4Absolutely bizarre to think about the fact that this shit is going to be viewed as part of history and social science lessons on fascism, White nationalism, and plutocracy.
fierce advocate, msw, lcsw2What is that bit in the oval where he actually has a jawline? Who touched up that piece?
Various Threnodies2I’m glad to see they’ve continued to showcase their complete media illiteracy by prominently featuring Persona 5, the game about a bunch of socially oppressed misfits taking down a corrupt Prime Minister
The only way to watch the UFC fight at the White House (even for live streaming mockery purposes) is to have Paramount plus, which is owned by MAGA billionaires the Ellisons, who destroyed CBS News and soon CNN. Their corruption is all so out in the open and obvious.
Oh, Zarks!4Only way I’m gonna watch that shite:
wallflower0987.bsky.social4I wouldn't watch that mess if it were happening 3 feet in front of me.
Melissa NicWitch of Clan Witch3I'll be busy doing a vigorous thunderstorm dance aimed at the DC area anyway. I won't have time to watch.
Dark-Chocolate2I will not be watching no matter who airs this violent bloodsport.
Video of Trump’s White House UFC event shining bright lights into the sky last night
Ariana Niko26If you showed me this with no context, I’d guess a casino grand opening before I’d guess the White House
bramwing.bsky.social22No man has ever soiled and sullied the whitehouse like this scumbag. He’s an embarrassment to the nation
Sherry Krauss13definitely a flight hazard for Reagan how many seats did they sell at 1.5 million and how many seats are they paying seat fillers to fill?
Kelvino Cella10We always knew hum as a Coney Island con-man. A fundementally low-class rich kid with the taste of a WalMart home furnishings buyer. This is the USA that the world now sees.
His Future 2nd Wife10Nothing says freedom more than two grown men beating the shit out of each other.
catlady49ers.bsky.social8Huge waste of our tax money! 🤬
Raffy8Nothing says ‘look at me” more than illuminating the sky of an entire city without regard for the pilots trying to land at the nearby airport or for the residents nearby…
truetanker.bsky.social8I have never prayed harder for a severe thunderstorm than I am for tonight in DC...
RichieNYC7Fucking light pollution and human trash
FloSco6This spectacle brought to you by the same people that found Obama’s tan suit a national disgrace…
EARNED MY SPURS: UNABLE TO CURB MY CUSSING 🐎5Trashy and horrific, just like trump
defeq79.bsky.social5All vacant all the time
IgLover4Tacky is too inadequate a word to describe this.
remi007.bsky.social3Will the states ever get the respect it once had in the eyes of the world back?
Alice last name3That's going to cause at least one near miss with a plane
B-rad2FAA likely to ground stop DCA at dusk, redirect flights to Dulles.
catlady49ers.bsky.social2What about the *freedom* for our immigrants in Nazi concentration camps? 😳😳😳😳
🌸Juls🌸⚖️2Blinding pilots. So not cool
bershod.bsky.social2The Knicks win will overshadow this stupidity
