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UFC Freedom 250 staged on White House South Lawn, Topuria vs Gaethje headlined

sportsJun 14, 2026885,843

The White House South Lawn hosted UFC Freedom 250, headlined by Ilia Topuria defending his UFC lightweight title against Justin Gaethje. The South Lawn was converted into a ring-centered fight night with a full UFC card staged outside the presidential residence. Organizers promoted the event as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary celebrations and tied the broadcast to a Paramount+ subscription. Staging a professional mixed martial arts championship at the White House fused presidential pageantry with commercial sports sponsorship, highlighting tensions between politics, entertainment, and corporate promotion.

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

Josh Hokit just ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling "Michelle Obama is a man!" A disgraceful spectacle through and through

17302h ago
silverbullet42.bsky.social267

This whole event is white trash on steroids.

Patric Reynolds112

What the fuck are we even doing?

LeVynche66

Remember when the media and Republicans lost it's shit when Biden used the Marines in the background for a important speech 😡

Patric Reynolds61

I maintain that this isn't a presidency. It's one dumb, mediocre white guy circle jerk.

Ryan Leonard49

No idea who that is, but I’m pretty sure he looks like and is a douchebag.

Nouveaux Horizons43

I think seeing the military forced to salute the UFC fighters will really freak a lot of people out.

Matt Gaetz Forehead36

I don’t want to be here anymore.

Robyn33

These racist homophobic pigs at the trough of misogyny lapping it up

G-S-D30

I wish somebody would yell: "Melania is a whore," which is actually factually correct unlike this abhorrent fiction

T-Fish🇨🇦🍁25

Fucking douche. I’d like to say this comment is due to head trauma but there are assholes like this all over America who think they’re funny. Such a sad display and really pointless

Herd Leader 🐴🐕🐎🐐🐈🦅🌻🦋23

Donald Trump is a pedophile.

The Rest of Us Party21

UFC is a MAGA organization and should be treated as such.

Who cares20

Congrats hokit you’re now famous for just being a total dirtbag

Dog Star18

The confederacy lives and they are as vile as ever.

rrrrrrrachel15

These people are sick and dangerous. Who in their right mind can't see it? The hate and vengefulness are disgusting.

Andreas 🇨🇿 🇪🇺🌻🍉14

this guy? he looks very smart

wjk198355.bsky.social14

This whole thing has been a disgrace from the beginning. These guys are using the WH Treaty Room for a locker room, using the WH corridors as part of their entrance and to see the US military being used in this manner is sickening. We are living in some of the worst days in our nation’s history!

P-Malone13

Don’t ask why he said it ,ask why it was ok to say it in that room.

Sloan Ashton13

Very much on brand for trailer trash, of course.

goobie1969.bsky.social13

What a crowd of pigs.

Middlerage11

She’s more of a man than you are fucker!

Rewa10

You can never be the former First Lady Michelle Obama. The graceful, the hardworker, couragous mother, first lady that she is and will be. They hate a black woman that earned her place in this country. Trashy Josh Hokit should keep Michelle Obama out of his disgraceful mouth.

Tiffany⸆⸉9

What a piece of shit.

OCLadyHawk8

Can that vile shit be reported to someone? ANYONE???

Meegan8

No surprise that he is from Clovis, CA. That's the part of the I-5 drive that smells like shit.

Emily Zbornak7

Trump has emboldened the most loser trash bitches ever. They can’t just have the good night they claim they want to have and celebrate trumps bday. They just have to insult somebody. Someone whose not there lmaooooo looooooser

hulkling 86 476

what’s the tipping point america?

Rachel Maria😎🐸🥥🌴🇺🇸5

It’s not a surprise that this🍊vulgarian draws pestilence to his shit💩

Lost-Wages-Joe5

Josh Hokit gets kicked in the head for a living.

TheFullerReport5

I hope somebody beats the shit out of him in his fight tonight.

Shelly5

Absolutely shocking. But at least her man got a better deal with Iran than the orangutan in the White House who’s using this fight night to hide his failure.

We’re All Underreacting5

What would you expect from the disgusting trash that is taking place in the capital?

Thisistheforestsuccessional5

What a piece of shit

Imsolazy5

lol goodness we are so far gone.

Smirnov-Spite5

Hokit is the top ranked contender for the UFC Midtransphobicweight Championship.

BishopOfHome5

Next to zero crowd response.

EricaJones4

Tomorrow I hope somewhere during a press briefing about this disgusting event someone screams “Milania was a hooker that Trump bought from Epstein”. And then we can watch the Republicans heads explode as if it’s not the exact same sort of disrespect. (Except one is true)

Wendy M. A. Darling4

I am happy to say that I have never heard of this “Josh Hokit,” but anyhow, he certainly isn’t a man.

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆4

As I was saying, bsky.app/profile/saba...

TheRealSparky💙🐸🇺🇸3

The guy that showed up drunk and puked on himself?

Nancy03173

I hope she sues him for $10B. WTF is wrong with these people.

PLUR 🧡3

If she is, she's a better one than trump 🤣

Ana3

What a psycho...how embarrassing. Imagine what the world thinks of us!!)

I Have Questions3

Do tools like Josh Hokit even realize just how fecking irrelevant and short-lived they are?

Emerald3

Are we really still doing Michelle Obama transvestigations in the big '26? Do these people ever let literally anything go?

sunny 🌻3

We have been told for 10 yrs maga had legit policy grievances and trump was a valid candidate and that it wasnt about hate or being deplorable

Voted for joy and we ended up with this3

Not surprised. Most of these assholes have been hit in the head many times. I decided to watch something completely opposite of whatever trump is tonight. I'm watching, " Remarkably Bright Creatures" and loving it.

Rudely Van Gelder3

Gonna be a whole lot of GOP “I haven’t seen that Tweet” around the halls of Congress tomorrow.

iamsauerkraut.bsky.social3

Michelle could take him. In the classroom, too.

Kelley3

An appalling desecration of The People’s House.

mruelberg.bsky.social3

As disgraceful as if someone yelled Melania was an Epstein call girl.

Sandy2

I can believe that from one of them - after all, it was a class-less spectacle for a classless 🟧🤡

Brandon Cato2

They’re putting racism ON FULL DISPLAY. Right there on The White House lawn. In 2026. Tell me. Where else on earth does this putrid display of hate happen in the residence of a head of state? I’ll wait. 🤨

Mary Grace2

Vulgar, trashy, repellent, and symbolic of the US regime.

thirdcoast1420.bsky.social2

This is what we’re up against. Don’t pretend the Republican base are salt of the earth working class people with economic anxiety. They are, indeed, a bucket of deplorables.

The Fool❌👑2

Trailer trash took over the White House.

~Harig~2

This guy showed up to weigh-in drunk and threw up on himself…

The Hypocrisy Collective2

No one of sound mind gives two shits about that event. It is the lowest of the low, typical male low-IQ violent tendencies. Nothing about this is uplifting or inspirational. Yes, let's put angry males in a cage fight and scream for blood and suffering. How is this positive for our culture? No thx

Studio89 Designs2

Man in his underwear getting his life expectancy shorted has cringe opinions... What a shock

I’m your huckleberry - but call me Phil2

That fuckhead is just another white supremest. That’s why he flipped the finger at his opponent before the fight. Real classy MAGA FUCKING IDIOTS.

RimageV in Louisiana2

Wtf is a Josh hokit? Is he one of the bum fighters?

OG SKATER2

It’s a gathering of giant douchey dirtbags

Jason Wippich2

Joe Dirt meets Gladiator with a dash of All In The Family

@SuzanaD32

Why aren't they ever suing?

Dann2

The only reason he is doing this is to try to rally the knuckleheads back together who have been sluffing off.

robbymack2

to see my home country thoroughly debase itself is quite the spectacle

Obi-chuck- extreme Marxist anarchist socialist, for hire2

Are we fucking ready yet? Are we fucking done yet?

thomascoyle2

Isn’t this the doofus who showed up drunk for the weight in and then proceeded to vomit on himself?

carl-in-disguise.bsky.social
@carl-in-disguise.bsky.social

A since-deleted tweet by UFC commentator Daniel Cormier, showing DM's he recieved from Eric Trump in which Eric asks about insider info on the UFC Freedom 250 fights and alludes to doing insider trading betting

6784h ago
Matt Simon
@crawlycreepy.bsky.social

I don't know why you're all outraged. The "UFC Freedom 250" event is a perfectly appropriate representation of the United States: stupid, violent, cruel, crass, barbaric, and inhumanly commercialized by greed. This is the real America outside your intellectual minority: a sick and depraved society.

8343h ago
Matt Simon25

The election results of the past ten years have provided some pretty big data to support this thesis

Be Jota21

That perfectly encapsulates why I have never watched or cared about UFC. Nearly everyone I know that's a fan is a slobbering idiot.

Pari Moon-Forest11

As one of the minority, I can't argue with this at all. At this point, collectively, we deserve what we get. It's a S#!t show.

Olivia10

More American than NASCAR at Disney.

KelliE8

Most Americans aren’t stupid, violent, cruel, crass, barbaric or inhumanely anything. You’re talking about MAGAts. Point your finger at them.

robbymook.bsky.social5

Perhaps outraged because not all Americans are depraved, accepting of violence and representative of all of the wonderful descriptors used. I will not self immolate and say this is America. There is more to America than this view describes. Goodness is woven into our fabric as much as the crass.

Melinda-wvu5

I mean you're not wrong.

Cryptohat4

Just today but not always. The World Cup is a sign of what we once were

calsantafe3

That’s us, sponsored by Monster drinks

tuckaduck.bsky.social3

Yeah we know, that's why we're outraged. Direct your comments to maga-gots on 'X'

Beyond the Pain in Search of Redemption2

I haven't seen a more truthful statement for a long time. This is what America has created by putting wealth, fame, greed, entitlement and arrogance, above decency. UFC Freedom 250 Boeing to a child sex trafficking felon. How utterly grotesque. MADE IN THE USA

Jack Brand2

Oh, I have no trouble believe you haven't the faintest clue why there is outrage about this.

sandcamll-04.bsky.social2

This country is sailing down the flume into a pool of 💩

Monstrous Regiment2

It’s also super gay which is why I love it.

Craig R. Brittain
@craigbrittain.com

They're playing a terrible cover of YMCA at UFC Freedom 250 and for some reason the camera operator is focusing on the Navy.

1733h ago
🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦26

Omg, talk about making fools of themselves. I’d consider it the highest honour to be court martialed for refusing to attend that disgraceful clown show.

virgogirlj.bsky.social16

God, this shitshow is so mortifying, disrespectful, egregiously corrupt, and everything that’s wrong with this country.

Dad Bod E13

Remember these clips whenever you're asked to support the troops in the future. I know I will.

Leighanne 🌒⭐️🌛🌬12

What in the hillbilly hell is going on?!

Catturds of TrootSochul8

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks! You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, — the original King Lear

David7

That is some truly terrible singing.

Normality has left the building4

They are copying Trump’s dance moves. 😳

Artless Dodger4

What an embarrassment to all involved...

Zombiekat4

Nothing like playing Temu YMCA for this shitshow

Krrristisha4

Maybe they're hoping the Navy will dance their way to victory? 😂🕺 What a vibe!

Philadelphia Jedi4

At the 1:40 mark, are those bozos making the white power sign?

BriSecreeeet3

Sounds like a party! 🎉 But are the Navy boys showing off their moves too? 😜

Sciencematters2

That’s qwhite a group. That’s not normal for the navy, right?

ProudSocialist⚛️💙🏳️‍🌈🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦2

I really hope this can be erased from the history books. I don't want our future children learning about this trashy shit except January 6th and learning how bad it was.

MTfromCC2

I don’t see any fatties there.

Oliver Darcy
@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

At the UFC fight with the White House as a backdrop, fighter Josh Hokit shouts into the microphone, "Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?!"

1432h ago
Helen Kennedy62

It's not like they really needed to import trash, yet they did.

Andy34

Our tax dollars are helping fund this disgraceful spectacle.

Fiat justitia, Ruat caelum26

I had new neighbors who I invited to my home for snacks and board games. They said this crap and they were never welcomed back to my home.

Renée the Fucking Bitch Witch ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇22

No, she's not, but neither is that pos loser who said that.

Radiogaga🌱7519

I’m speechless. I have never been so embarrassed to be an American as I am right now. I absolutely hate our government for allowing the most disgusting people on earth near the White House. They’ve turned the Capitol into a racist shit hole.

Marjorie Taylor’s Spleen17

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Mina10

Remember when the press was furious that Joe Biden spoke in front of some red lights?

Militia Etheridge5

TKO is a scumbag organization from the top down. Troglodyte professional concussion-getters opining like their entire job isn't to be rendered unconscious for our entertainment.

IntrepidGirlSleuth4

Does he know she’s the most popular woman in the country

OKNova3

Trash...ignorant trash. What has America done to itself? Self-inflicted destruction. When will enough people care enough to stop it? How much is enough?

Grumpy Zeus3

Hokit has a long history of vicious racism. Republicans wanted to give this maniac KKK admirer a public forum to push the GOP agenda of hate.

kbrooks99.bsky.social2

No, you’re a disgrace along with the president who invited you

StickyBunny2

Is that the guy who was filmed throwing up on himself?

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