06/16/2026
Despite endless whining, scolding, condescension and even an epically stupid lawsuit, President Trump’s UFC weekend at the White House for America’s 250th birthday (and his own 80th) was a smash success that drew a massive crowd.
Media elites and leftist commentators sniffed that it was gross, crude and defiled the dignity of the White House (recall, Democrat Presidents gave us a White House with pornographic Christmas ornaments under the Clintons, a topless trans “woman” showing off “her” bare fake breasts on the White House lawn during a Biden-era “Pride Month” celebration, and of course, Woodrow Wilson hosting a White House showing of “Birth of a Nation,” a landmark of cinema but also a love letter to that great Democrat-created institution, the K*K.)
While they might have preferred to mark America’s 250th birthday with a mass apology for our existence followed by a musical adaptation of “Sex and the City” with an all-black trans cast, everyone else seemed to love the show Trump put on, from the UFC match to the amazing flying dirt bikes to the chest-rattling Air Force flyover. It also resulted in a historic photo that’s so overwhelmingly patriotic, it looks like an AI creation, only real. (By the way, the UFC and other private sources sponsored it; the only taxpayer money was for security that had already been budgeted for America’s 250th birthday celebrations.)
All of these stories taken together paint a bigger picture of the implosion of the left’s long grip on the cultural zeitgeist. It started last week, when a huge Disney “Star Wars” movie was humiliated by two low-budge indie horror films made by YouTubers. Then came the Red State PR triumph during the World Cup games. And what did the leftist TDS crowd give us to compete with Trump’s White House UFC patriotic extravaganza?
An alleged “grassroots” protest concert “Rise Up, Sing Out” (funded by billionaires the left likes, such as George Sorors), featuring such hip-and-happening, cutting-edge newcomers as Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Julia Roberts, Robert DeNiro and Patti Smith. Midler sang an update of a Woody Guthie protest song against fascism that was timely in the 1930s.
Now, it’s mostly remembered by the audience for this show, who are largely unreconstructed Stalinists who are so old, they call Bernie Sanders “sonny.”
Another anti-Trump event was called “Rage Against The Cage” (the UFC Octogon), which perfectly described all they have to offer: Mindless rage against everything that’s fun, exciting and patriotic.
It’s painfully obvious that their days of pop culture dominance, or even relevance, are long past. Now, they’re just bitter old coots shaking their fists at the new cool kids who were jamming with Trump at the White House and screeching, “Get off our lawn!!”
