America 250: A Wild Celebration at the White House
Much to the consternation of anti-American Democrats, President Donald Trump marked Flag Day and his birthday with a raucous UFC event on the White House lawn.
It was a huge weekend for sports in America. It began on Friday night with the U.S. men’s national soccer team pounding Paraguay 4-1 in Los Angeles to open the World Cup. On Saturday night, the NBA’s New York Knicks won their first championship since 1973. The NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes followed that on Sunday night by winning their first Stanley Cup in 20 years. Arguably, however, the main event was the United Fighting Championship (UFC) fights on the White House South Lawn on Sunday, which kicked off a series of events celebrating America’s 250th birthday.
The spectacle opened with the Zac Brown Band, accompanied by the Joint Armed Forces Chorus, singing the national anthem. As they finished, an amazingly tight joint formation of six U.S. Navy Blue Angels and six U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds flew over. A bald eagle named Lincoln also flew into the octagon to chants of “USA! USA! USA!” The event ended with a fantastic fireworks display. It was Flag Day. It was the U.S. Army’s 251st birthday. It was President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. It was absolutely epic stuff.
“I have seen some surreal things in my life — this is the most surreal,” UFC commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan said on the official broadcast. “It doesn’t seem real. None of it seems real. It’s so crazy.”
If that doesn’t make you want to stand, salute, cheer, and yell ‘Merica!, I don’t know what will.
Which brings me to the Democrats. Reporting on an NBC News poll released yesterday, The Daily Wire notes, “Fewer than 30% of Democrats say they are extremely or very proud to be an American ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary.” There’s a term for that: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Speaking of Democrats with TDS, Hillary Clinton used the event to hawk some swag on her political action committee website, posting on X, “No matter what, it’s not his house. It’s our house.”
Uh, does she happen to remember what her husband did in “our house”? She turned off replies to her post, so I’d guess she does, and it’s just her typical shamelessness. Thankfully, it was never her house, either, though she’s still mad about losing a decade later.
“The White House was built to serve the American people,” lectured California Governor and presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom. “The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office. They did not fight a revolution for this.”
I’ll grant that George Washington, John Adams, and the gang might have raised an eyebrow at some of the glitzy display, crass comments, and wild behavior at the White House yesterday. But they also didn’t fight a revolution so California could steal taxpayer money to gender-mutilate the kids and run a state full of homeless encampments.
As for the White House, the UFC fight was a heck of a lot better than what Joe Biden allowed to happen on the lawn in celebration of the Left’s disgusting sex cult. Leftists still sued and tried to block the UFC event, though a judge declined to stop it.
The president, vice president, nine Cabinet secretaries, congressional leaders, and thousands of other officials, military personnel, and fans watched a briefly rain-delayed event. Trump is a longtime friend of UFC executive Dana White. Several bouts culminated in the main card featuring undefeated Georgian-Spanish Ilia Topuria versus American Justin Gaethje, in which the underdog American prevailed to win the undisputed UFC lightweight championship.
“I’m from America,” Gaethje reflected, and “250 years ago, we were way bigger than 6-to-1 [under]dogs, and look at us thriving now.”
As July 4 comes right around the corner, America’s challenges do loom large. But I agree with Gaethje that, in many big ways, our nation is “thriving,” and I thank God that I’m an American.
