And Of Course, There Will Be Sport

Trump meant it when he said their would be an Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed-martial arts event on the White House South Lawn for the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding, and he has gone one better by having the most vulgar arena on the lawn for people's enjoyment.

Trump loves the damn thing so much, he's thinking of making it permanent.  How could be possibly suggest making it permanent when no one else wants it, unless he's planning to stay for life?

Which hopefully won't be that long.

Trump looking forward to the UFC fights scheduled for this coming Sunday - his eightieth birthday - assuming he has something to look forward to.  The group Public Integrity Project has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration saying that Trump's approval of this UFC spectacle went against National Park Service regulations banning sporting events on federal parkland, which includes the White House itself.  This is unlikely to stop Trump any more than legal rulings against the planned White House ballroom, but UFC fighters might; some of them have vowed not to take part in the event, and even Joe Rogan questioned the logic of having a mixed-martial arts fight outdoors on a day that is expected to be 91 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity - in short, a typical Washington, D.C. day in June. 

And as if all that weren't enough, Trump is attending, as I type, the New York Knicks basketball playoff game in Midtown Manhattan, even though he hasn't been welcome in New York City since he changed his legal residence to his one-time winter residence in Florida, ruining the game for ticket holders whether the Knicks win or not by creating the mother of all frozen zones, and he's likely to take advantage of the moment to fake another assassination attempt.

Having already desecrated the World Cup and having brought Dana White's UFC league to what should be now called the Dana White House, and having decided to ruin the National Basketball Association, Trump has me left to only wonder what he has in store for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.  I talked about that already.