UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter
P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.
What we had was great until white people got into their feelings and fucked everything up
All these corrupt as companies and politicians. Need to be stripped of their titles and companies dissolveed asap.Hmmm....wonder how he would do if he ran for office?
She wouldn't walk out of the room all weekend. Ijs
Bro I think he would win....Me saying Hunter 2028 has mainly been a joke, but it's little truth to it.....
Dude smoke cracked and loved to fuck bitches.....I mean outside of the crack, most men can relate...
And people act like all crackheads are bad people.....I have seen several functioning crackheads that were not bad at all...Just had a vice that I can't support, but it is what it is....
The standards (such as they were as its always been a racist, imperialist, exploitative system) seem to be out the window so I am not sure the crackhead thing would be a bother unless the Dems decided to make it one
When he ain't flying, he sounds amazingly coherent.
Exactly....
Dude went to Georgetown and got his JD from Yale so clearly he ain't a dummy....
Again, I am not saying he would be my first, second, or third choice, but he talks like someone with alot of common sense....
Jay Leno's assessment of 83-year-old Joe Biden after spending a day driving through the Angeles National Forest in a 1967 Corvette Stingray: "He was very sharp. I thought maybe I would have to talk in a slower voice. But no, we just talked, and he was funny, and just making jokes. It was the old Joe again."
They stopped at a Handel's in La Cañada Flintridge. Biden surprised some kids waiting for ice cream. Shook every hand. Paid for a number of the kids' cones himself.
"Every handshake is worth 250 votes," Leno said. "Just congenial. Just a nice guy."
Meanwhile on the same Sunday, the current president was watching men in a cage fight each other on the South Lawn while a fighter grabbed the White House microphone to shout a conspiracy theory about Michelle Obama and another thanked him personally for making it possible.
Two men. Two Sundays. One country trying to figure out what it wants to be.
Biden talked about Beau. About NATO. About national parks. About the value of apprenticeships and the programs being cut that create them. Then he got chocolate chip.
Sometimes the contrast does all the work.
The Budapest Memorandum is a 1994 international political agreement where the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine surrendering the world's third-largest nuclear arsenal.
Russia flagrantly violated the Budapest Memorandum when its military forces annexed Crimea in 2014 and launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
If you want to know what good speeches are, there's 3 with different tones and deliveries.
Then there's the moron's speech. DEI indeed.
Then there's the moron's speech. DEI indeed.
The New Republic
11h ·Former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Fox News, “We had an economic stranglehold on that country. So, when you go back to the status quo ante before the blockade, how are we better off? What did we get?”
“This is an American surrender,” MAGA commentator Erick Erickson said. https://trib.al/JJ3J88Z
And, as you said, Marion Barry was DC's greatest mayor, and one of the greatest in US history, and he smoked crack.
Oprah also smoked it.
