Trump Sparks ‘Idiocracy’ Comparisons with Bizarre UFC Fight Location Plan
politics and government
2024-11-17 14:43:39
When it comes to the sort of venues that host
UFC
fights, we tend to imagine massive arenas and stadiums, but US president
Donald Trump
has shocked social media by declaring that he wants such an event to take place next year to mark 250 years since the signing of the US Declaration of Independence – and he wants it to happen at the
White House
.
Yes, really.
Addressing a crowd at Des Moines,
Iowa
on Thursday – a day before this year’s
Independence Day
– Trump said: “Every one of our national park, battlefields and historic sites are gonna have special events in honour of America 250. I even think we’re going to have a UFC fight.
“We’re going to have a UFC fight – think of this, on the grounds of the White House. We have a lot of land there, we’re going to build a little- we’re not, Dana’s [Dana White] going to do it.
“We’re gonna have a UFC fight, championship fight, like 20-25,000 people, and we’re going to do that as part of 250 also.”
Turning the White House into the Dana White House, hey, Donald?
Trump’s idea has since been ridiculed online with comparisons to the 2006 dystopian film
Idiocracy
, in which a man wakes from hibernation in the future to find he is the smartest man in the world:
“
Idiocracy
was a democracy,” declared one social media user:
Another likened it to a story from satirical news site
The Onion
:
And a third dreaded who the fighters would be:
No need, though, as we’ve decided to explore that for you…
Elon Musk vs Mark Zuckerberg
You may recall that back in 2023, tech billionaires
Mark Zuckerberg
and
Elon Musk
both entertained the idea of
taking part in a cage match
at some point, only for the former to
say he is moving on from the whole idea
because Musk “isn’t serious”.
In a social media post at the time, Zuckerberg wrote: “I offered a real date. Dana White (UFC boss) offered to make this a legit competition for charity.
“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.
“If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, time to move on. I’m going to focus on competing with people who take the sport seriously.”
This seems as good an opportunity as any to settle some unfinished business, but who knows, after Musk’s
less than smooth departure from Trump’s administration
as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, we can’t help but imagine a potential Musk vs Trump bout as an alternative.
Joe Rogan
The podcaster and UFC commentator
has criticised ICE raids
by Trump’s administration as “insane”, attacking the agency’s “targeting of migrant workers” in an episode of the
Joe Rogan Experience
on Wednesday.
“Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really,” he said.
Trump won’t be too pleased about that…
Stephen King
King, the acclaimed author behind horror books such as
Carrie
,
It
and
The Shining
, has been vocal in his criticism of Trump on many an occasion,
branding him an “incompetent a******”
at the end of last month, and
joining in on the ‘taco’ memes
about Trump ‘always chickening out’ with a rather disturbing AI image.
Robert Di Niro
The
Goodfellas
actor has used award ceremonies such as
the Cannes Film Festival
and the Tony Awards to blast the US president, going viral in 2018 when he attended the latter and
said “f*** Trump” while on stage
.
Needless to say if Trump was looking to enter the ring himself, a good number of people don’t like him.
Why not read…
- Trump’s most ‘hateful’ comments yet make him ‘unfit’ to be President
- Trump critics call on ADL to intervene over ‘antisemitic’ remark
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