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Here is a headline I never expected to read in The New York Times<\/em><\/em>: \u201cU.F.C. Fight Venue Takes Shape on the White House Lawn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Trump Pentagon begging troops to watch his White House UFC fight: report<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, this is what the President of the United States considers an appropriate, even dignified, way to honor America on her 250th birthday: cage matches that transform the South Lawn of the People\u2019s House into a trailer-trash paradise. Donald Trump is mentally locked into a mindset that considers violent spectacle the highest form of human endeavor.<\/p>\n

For the rest of us, it\u2019s not just humiliating; it\u2019s a vulgar abomination from a man whose level of taste peaked at age 6 and never evolved. And so, he\u2019s desecrated the nation\u2019s most famous piece of real estate, perpetrated by a chief executive who considers spray-on gold to be the most cosmetically appealing touch of d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an act of historical vandalism by a president turned on by desecration. Holding an Ultimate Fighting Championship event demonstrates contempt for everything we stand for. He\u2019s like a dog marking its territory with a million gallons of urine.<\/p>\n

The star-spangled arch depicted over the cage on the lawn is designed to honor both the nation\u2019s and his own birthdays. He\u2019s turning 80 on June 14, the day it\u2019s planned for, with a 5,000-seat arena surrounding the area. And I can\u2019t make this part up: official weigh-ins for the bouts are being hosted at the Lincoln Memorial \u2013 introducing a vicious exhibition in front of a monument honoring a president assassinated in cold blood.<\/p>\n

What can we compare it to?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a Cabinet meeting being replaced by a Bass Pro Shop sponsorship.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the fall of Rome sponsored by DraftKings.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a nation confusing brute strength with performance art.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like if the Situation Room were programmed by adolescent boys with unlimited caffeine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a presidential library being built entirely out of Monster Energy cans.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Mount Rushmore being redone as a fight poster.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the executive branch discovering it can get louder applause for chokeholds than legislation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like Caligula discovering brand synergy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like a campaign rally peddled as a pay-per-view extravaganza.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like your grandparents scheduling the entertainment at your 21st birthday party.<\/p>\n

It marks the full-on transformation of persuasion into intimidation, institutions into insincerity, leadership into performance, civic life into content creation. It\u2019s hyper-masculine theater getting hyped as our national pastime. The Roman Colosseum lives in 2026.<\/p>\n

Of course, the matches will be broadcast live on CBS and streamed via Paramount+, because the new owners Larry and David Ellison are so far in the tank for Trump that they can barely see out of it. They have rendered CBS News and, by extension, 60 Minutes <\/em><\/em>utterly obsolete as balanced news organizations. They are instead Fox News Lite and getting heavier all the time.<\/p>\n

Read more Top White House aides mull over killing Trump\u2019s slush fund as GOP senators revolt: report<\/a><\/p>\n

In tandem with the Great American State Fair music abomination featuring musical artists with no drawing power even in MAGA strongholds, the entire putrid production symbolizes an America that is hopelessly degrading and, in fact, long dead. It has no soul, no feeling, no esteem. It\u2019s patriotism as merchandising. History as branding. Freedom as nostalgia. All of it hollow to the core.<\/p>\n

How did this come to be? It\u2019s happened because Trump has no respect for anything he doesn\u2019t somehow have his personal stamp on. Now he wants a $250 bill with his glaring mug stamped in the middle, because devastating our economy isn\u2019t quite enough. He needs to wreck our currency, too.<\/p>\n

All of this will one day merely be a traumatic memory. Actually being forced to live through it is its own special hell. Rising up and recording our disgust at all of this doesn\u2019t feel like nearly enough, and in fact, a louder and more sustained voice needs to take hold to counter the creeping normalization.<\/p>\n

The indifference is what\u2019s deafening and dangerous. The shrugs and the exhaustion. The \u201cOh yeah, that\u2019s just Trump being Trump.\u201d That can\u2019t be our collective reaction because it enables him, encouraging the next outrage on our institutions, the next assault on our senses of decency, morality, judgment, principles.<\/p>\n

On Trump\u2019s watch, the grotesque has become commonplace. He\u2019s taken the American flag and symbolically wiped his backside with it. He\u2019s seized our dignity as a country and bent it to his phantasmagorical sense of who and what we should be.<\/p>\n

One of the most devastating ways he\u2019s done this is to transform our politics into his own personal reality show and his presidency itself into a cash register. Not enough has been made of his making more than 3,700 stock trades during the first quarter of 2026 alone, hyping the companies he\u2019s invested heavily in on his running Truth Social propaganda machine. He has used his powerful pulpit to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly as much as $1 billion on those trades alone. That\u2019s to say nothing of his crypto windfall.<\/p>\n

So we\u2019ve long since established that the law doesn\u2019t apply to Trump \u2013 at all. To pretend otherwise is to mock the very idea that genuine ethics matter in the slightest.<\/p>\n

Yes, he\u2019s sold out the presidency itself in every way imaginable. And less tangibly but equally alarmingly, he\u2019s peddled our propriety, decorum and self-respect to satisfy his inner tactless oaf. His lizard brain is greatly limited in what satisfies its host, and he\u2019s foisted that degradation on all the nation\u2019s citizens. MAGA really stands for Make America Garish Again.<\/p>\n

And so we have a semiquincentennial celebration more befitting the main event at a monster truck rally, orchestrated by a man who makes the clan on The Beverly Hillbillies <\/em><\/em>look like the Rockefellers. He believes the White House belongs to him, so he\u2019s (temporarily ruined it like he does everything else he touches.<\/p>\n

Just know that most of us share the revulsion you\u2019re feeling.<\/p>\n

Ray Richmond is a longtime journalist\/author and an adjunct professor at Chapman University in Orange, CA.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Read more Rookie prosecutor behind high-profile revenge indictment quietly removed from case: report<\/a><\/p>\n


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