With UFC Freedom 250 at the White House, Trump Has Reached Peak ‘Idiocracy’

Source: www.variety.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center-Right · Published: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:45:31 GMT

At no point has the Trump presidency more closely resembled a scene out of “Idiocracy,” Mike Judge’s 2006 satire about a Philistine society that abhors intellectualism, than on Sunday night, as the White House played host to UFC Freedom 250 — a series of MMA brawls on the South Lawn ostensibly meant to commemorate the […]

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