Saagar Enjeti

Come on.

Dana White is like the original.

Yeah.

Trump supporter, and then to turn it into some major spectacle, which will all be broadcast, I believe, on Paramount+, the Trump, right?

In terms of what we're talking about here, we're talking about tens of millions of dollars that are being spent for this gigantic arena.

Call me a buzzkill.

Don't care, because it's all put in the veneer of it's all about Trump himself and America 250.

So I'm just, look, all I can say is I'm trying to take a step back and say, yeah, the bicentennial, it was a bad year too.

So it's not, you know, like even though these are supposed to have some sort of reverence and all this, like I think we'll be all right in the end of it.

But yeah, it's just, it made me sad.

I actually made me saddest looking at the original 150th birthday and just looking at the way that they celebrated that at the time and their genuine reverence for the founding and like the intellectual backbone of the nation.

I have a 1903 Atlas in my house, which was printed by the Philadelphia Inquirer I found at a bookstore, antique bookstore.

The level of time and effort that they spent on the founding history of the United States, of the myth, the origins, and all that, and yes, it has many problems, none of which were acknowledged in the Atlas.

I will definitely grant you that.

But

It was clear to me, and they were actually well-fingered, you could see some of the original owners, they spent a lot of time on this section.

The amount of time that people spent and actually wanted to celebrate the founding and the birth of the nation at the 150th birthday, or even at that time, I'm talking about 1903, it would shock the average young person, I think, today.

And that's really what depresses me, is we're gonna have gladiator fights like literal bread and circus.

And yeah.

Without the bread.