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Poll: Only 16% of Americans approve of Trump holding UFC event at White House. UFC event coincides with Trump's 80th birthday. One in five Americans say they are mixed martial arts fans.

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-- Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) (@hcrichardson.bsky.social) 2:25 PM · Jun 10, 2026

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... Few Americans, including only a third of Republicans, approve of President Donald Trump's plan to hold mixed martial arts cage matches at the White House on Sunday to celebrate U.S. history, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.

Just 16% of Americans said it was appropriate for Trump to hold the Ultimate Fighting Championship event, scheduled for his 80th birthday, while 46% said it was inappropriate and the rest didn't offer an opinion.

Only 31% of Republicans considered it appropriate, a small share considering that eight in 10 Republicans approve of Trump's overall performance in the White House, according to the six-day poll, which concluded on Monday. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-11 01:51 PM | Reply

I'd like to think they picked June 14 because it marks the 77th anniversary of a rhesus monkey called Albert II blasting off on a V-2 rocket out of Holloman AFB, NM, to hit an altitude of 83 miles, whereby Albert became the first mammal and the first monkey to journey into space. Sadly, Albert did not survive the impact of his return to earth when the parachute on the capsule in which he rode malfunctioned. Nevertheless, party on in Albert's name.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-06-11 03:31 PM | Reply

Travis Pastrana is going to backflip a motorcycle over the WH lawn on Saturday. Nitro Circus?!

Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-11 04:58 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's what we voted for.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-06-11 07:51 PM | Reply

It's just another gigantic grift that will flow into the orange chomo's bank account.

Don't want to ever ever ever hear about Burisma ever again from the lying mouths of conservatives.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-06-12 09:54 AM | Reply

How many of those who approve also approve of him profiting off the event by selling $12,000 coins that he claims are made with 1oz of gold?

#6 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-06-12 10:53 AM | Reply

This is probably the single most embarrassing moment in American history and it is brought to us by the most embarrassing Presid ent in history! Thank you MAGA morons! Without you none of this would be possible! Thanks to y'all, The entire world will now think the United States is a nation of morons but they figured that out when you elected Trump President!

BTW, we're replacing "In God We Trust" with "Yeehah! We love the poorly educated!"

#7 | Posted by danni at 2026-06-12 10:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

As a Caesar he sucks. Where is all the food for the masses?

But he does make a great Caligula. He regularly appoints a horses ass to his cabinet.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-12 12:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Good shot, Marine.

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-12 12:31 PM | Reply

absolute nonsense and a total fabrication.

what was the polling for the topless trans dancing on that "sacred ground"..

brought to you by the people who said biden was "good as ever"....for 4 years.

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-06-12 02:09 PM | Reply

Covie
@covie93.bsky.social
The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

#11 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-12 02:57 PM | Reply

The list of those invited was put together by Hedley Lamarr:

I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull -----, train robbers, bank robbers, ----------, ----------- and Methodists.

And Grandpa will get them...

#12 | Posted by catdog at 2026-06-12 03:08 PM | Reply

No I don't approve of tax dollars being WASTED on superficial ego crap when there are children, elderly, veterans all starving and not receiving the medical care nor education they deserve,
But we can pander to the orange ego all day long,
I do not remember any president in my living memory who has been this wasteful with dollars, This Self-aggrandizing behaviors that are a drain on US resources,
Bankrupting medicare, leaving seniors and the disabled without resources, After having slashed them to the bone if not ing takeverything from them,
Senior citizens are my largest growing cohort of homeless in my area
Real world problems, Real world fall out from this adminstration
Here is a real world example of the harms being done,
I'm having to move because the owners of our rental house, Young couple going through the immigration process the right way, Got a new job in Chicago, So they needed to move, We rented their house,
They went home to India on vacation, Can't get back in the country, THEY WERE HERE LEGALLY, In all the ways they were supposed to be,
Can't get back
Lost their job
Can't pay their mortage
We have to move so they can attempt to short sell in a saturated upside down market, They are nothing but screwed, And they did it all the right way,
Real world fall out from really screwed up things going on out there,
I'll clean this house like I am them, I will do all in my power to get their home ready to show, I have empathy care and concern for their suffering and destroyed dreams, Thanks you orange buffoon

#13 | Posted by gypsydiane8177 at 2026-06-13 07:17 AM | Reply

#13 I hear you. That is what pissed me off the most (besides the murdering) when ICE was here in Minneapolis. They were at the courthouse gathering up the folks that were there for their scheduled immigration hearings, you know, the folks doing it "the right way." So I don't want to hear another repuke say that the should "do it the right way" when this administration is not holding up the governments' side of the agreement.

#14 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-06-13 09:13 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"gathering up the folks that were there for their scheduled immigration hearings"

In other words:
ICE is detaining people who are here legally.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-13 09:35 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

When it comes to this cage match thing, do people in the audience actually watch for someone to be killed?

#16 | Posted by Zed at 2026-06-13 10:37 AM | Reply

Good shot, Marine.

#9 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

It's target rich environment. Now that we are completely surrounded by magabots we have them exactly where we want them.

No matter which way I aim I am gonna wing one.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-13 11:33 AM | Reply

Target rich is right and we don't need BRM skills here, Marine.

And stay anonymous, behind cloaking measures as much as possible, like this.

#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-06-13 12:01 PM | Reply

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