A few years ago, a facsimile of Imperial Rome staging munera at the Colosseum on the White House lawn would have been unimaginable.

The attendees seemed like they enjoyed it and there were impressive athletic performances. Panem et circenses.

The Eric Trump insider-trading solicitation story is its own weird rabbit hole:

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/daniel-cormier-eric-trump-...

Why is this on this site? It isn't interesting, it doesn't pique curiosity, it isn't 'stuff that matters' (OK, that's the other site's motto but it is applicable here as well), it is just another legacy media piece complaining about something. It might appeal to the part of this site's audience which considers everything done by the current US president bad but that still does not mean it is something which fits this site's profile. Post it on Reddit where it belongs?

bit low effort for this place ain't it? I mean, if we're going to make a negative statement about the event then we can do so without speculation.

The idea of hosting a UFC fight at the White House is promoting the concept of violence at the top tier of politics. Mad Max echoes aside; democratic politics is a diplomatic practice and is the very antithesis of using violence to solve problems. This reflects some of the troubling aspects of this current administration, how dismissive they are of the democratic institutions of the nation and further undermines the suggestion made by the administration that "the US is a Christian country". Not convinced the UFC judges give any points for turning the other cheek in a fight.

Not that anyone sane ever really believed that the US is Christian. It's clear that it's primarily motivated by the stock market and thus worships Mammon first and Jesus 2nd, if at all. Smth smth foreign aid, universal healthcare, etc?

> Let's play this silly articles game if we are actually going to do this then.

> Was The Weather Channel lying?

> https://x.com/i/status/2066159583085940897

> I'm not sure how you'd check.

> Have they ever done this before for a outdoor sports event like a marathon?

> Obviously you have less mosquitoes in a storm... So they were being assholes.

I don't know why you were downvoted (maybe for being off topic), but while the weather channel wasn't lying, they ended up being incorrect. I along with many others thought it was silly to hold the event outside, but weather-wise it went off without a hitch.

It is true though, the fighters were paid bonuses from some Trump crypto fund which raised eyebrows. Also there is an unverified and disputed story of Eric Trump asking UFC announcer Daniel Cormier for inside info on the fight card, presumably to make bets.

I actually watch UFC but I am not thrilled about its close ties to the executive branch. It feels very "bread & circus" like.

They paid the fighters using the Trump "scam" crypto coin (as folks call it) and the Trumps were apparently looking to bet on the fights using inside info on Polymarket et al according to some Twitter posts.