Trump hosted a UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday night, and leftist entertainers, politicians, and activists, are super pissed about it. They could have joined in the fun, but instead they trashed it, held their own sub-par competing event, and complained that the UFC was tasteless, crass, and a sign that American culture is in decline. In other words, they still hate regular Americans like you and me.
The fight, by all accounts, was pretty spectacular. Thousands were in attendance for the event featuring mixed martial arts, military tributes, flyovers, fireworks, and patriotic displays. The Zac Brown Band teamed with the Joint Armed Forces Chorus for a rendition of the National Anthem while Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds soared overhead. Wow.
But apparently, according to the aging, elitist Hollywood set and their political pals in punditry, we're all supposed to hate it. Patriotism is for the plebes, don't you know. They attempted—and failed—to upstage Trump's big Freedom 250 event with their own NYC Rise Up Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment event. But I gotta say, what's tacky and crass is talking sh*t about our glorious nation on her 250th birthday just because you don't like the guy in charge. A guy, I might add, that most Americans voted for.
Aging hippie Bette Midler got up on stage with a backdrop of protest signs, one of which ironically read "we will not be silenced" as she crooned her protest anthem into the mic on a televised event. "All you fascists bound to lose," she sang. "Hey there all you fascists, let me put you straight, when you come for the rest of us we'll fight you at the gate."
They claimed they were supporting the First Amendment, which we all know is freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, but these are the same scolds and harpies that were in favor of silencing Americans who spoke out against Covid lockdowns, said rightfully that the virus was the result of a lab leak, and got mad when people called men in dresses just that. Somehow, protesters being arrested for attacking cops is now a violation of free speech, but all that stuff was fine. Okay.
Jane Fonda, once known as Hanoi Jane to her generation after her sympathy and support for Vietnamese communists, got up on stage at Rise Up Sing Out and spoke about the rights that Americans hold dear, enshrined in the Constitution. "Those rights are for everyone, everyone" she said, "and we must defend them for everyone. Even if we don't agree with them. Y'know, it's not about Democrat or Republican or left or right, it's about right or wrong, and it is wrong, it is wrong for people to be attacked and called terrorists for exercising their rights and freedoms.
"It's time for Americans all across the country," she commanded, "all across the political spectrum who care about these freedoms, to stand up, creatively, non-violently, to defend these rights while we can. And we must do this now or we're not going to have any rights to defend."
She was talking about illegal immigrants with ties to terrorism, Antifa militants who obstruct federal law enforcement—but she and the the Divine Miss M are happy to call Trump supporters, Trump, conservatives, and people who would rather go see UFC than be lectured by aging wealthy leftists fascists all day.
Oscar Award-winning actress Julia Roberts praised Renee Nicole Good, a Minneapolis mom who lost her life when she attempted to run over an immigration officer with her minivan, part of a protest action to prevent ICE agents from arresting an illegal immigrant criminal. She praised her as "an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world. I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry."
In an absolutely abysmal, off-key group sing, a bunch of keffiyeh-draped entertainers (if you can even call them that) sang "no one is getting left behind this time," but it's unclear who they are even talking about, or what they think they've been getting left behind from.
Not to be outdone by her Hollywood compatriots, former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on X "This is what Trump’s done to the People’s House: a third of it is rubble, another third is a cage match. What a metaphor."
Pundits Jonathan Capehart and David Brooks told PBS viewers having UFC at the White House was "degrading," with Brooks going on to say JFK brought poets and composers to the people's house, "and now we have got cage fighting. Don't anybody say America's in cultural decline."
Bill Kristol piped up and claimed that UFC at the White House is "vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose," and "tacky." He said "It dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."
These folks had nothing to say when Antifa tore down statues right next to the White House in Lafayette Park. They kept their mouths shut when violent protesters set fire to St. John's Church, known as the Presidents' Church, in the heart of Washington, DC. No outrage bubbled up when Antifa agitators firebombed a Portland federal building for 100 straight nights or when 35 people were killed and $2 billion in damage done during the George Floyd riots. And as for desecration, these same people were likely on board when a transgender influencer took off his top and flashed his fake boobies during a massive Pride Celebration on the White House lawn, complete with a rainbow makeover of the People's House.
No, it's not that they hate the use of the White House lawn for brazen, even destructive cultural statements, it's that they hate Trump, they hate Americans, and they hate America. They think if you don't believe what they believe, if you like cage matches, if you voted for Trump, you're an uncouth fascist. Thanks, Hollywood elites, what we really needed most of all was another stupid sing-a-long where you tell us what you really think of us.
