Saagar Enjeti
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to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Again, it's UFC 250, so ostensibly.
It's for the 250th birthday of America.
You'll have some 5,000 spectators.
I love that they threw some of this in, too.
The reflecting pool and the East Wing and the Rose Garden and all these other crazy things.
The stadium being built here.
On the White House lawn.
By the way, the contract, I can't remember which outlet did some digging.
The contract for painting the reflecting pool, this blue color or whatever, of course, went to some Trump-aligned contractor.
And the profit margins are in a no-bid contract with the profit margins massively escalated.
So yeah, even in all of this, of course, it's got to be peppered with some Trumpian corruption too.
It wouldn't be a celebration of Trump's birthday without some Trumpian corruption.
I got no hate to the UFC, but let's all be honest.
Like, we're going to have shirtless dudes and gladiator fights on the White House lawn.
Like, what are we doing here?
Like, it's ridiculous.
And to use and to turn the White House, again, the South Lawn of the White House of the United States, this is a place for garden parties or for, you know, I can't even, the Easter egg roll, right?
Like, these are the types of events that are supposed to be happening here.
And to turn it into an explicitly, like, politically aligned, you could say it's not.