Donald Trump’s Contempt For America

Trump’s upcoming UFC Fight on the White House lawn is the perfect metaphor for his bottomless contempt for America, and all it supposedly stands for. While a sacred symbol of the seriousness of government and our often-painful history, he treats Washington flippantly, like a cross between Las Vegas and Mar-a-Lago, to re-decorate in a cheap, kitschy style as he drags our culture down into an even deeper “shithole.”

Nothing expresses the contempt and cynicism Donald Trump has toward America quite like his upcoming UFC extravaganza on the White House lawn. Under the guise of celebrating the legitimate miracle of the United States being the single longest-running form of government on the earth, the man who is determined to tear it all down is certainly doing his part with this festival of the flesh.

Half-naked men fighting with any technique legally short of outright killing your opponent? What’s there not to love about this combination of homo-eroticism and mano-mano blood sport violence? It may not be to the death, Skull Island or gladiator style, but give fascists enough time and they’ll get us there.¹

It’s not that this event isn’t a direct attack upon our government itself. Donald Trump’s done plenty of that in so many other ways already. But it is one more blow in dragging the underlying culture of America down into an even deeper “shithole” of cynical spectacle masquerading as a “celebration” of what supposedly made America great. It is in essence, one more way of Donald Trump, Russia lover, of taking a collective dump on us all.

That it’s being held on White House grounds, which this man is in the process of desecrating as much as possible already, underscores his big middle finger to American civilization. The East Wing, a section of the White House historically devoted to First Ladies and all the valuable projects they have given themselves to, lies in shambles as mute symbolic background.

Jackie Kennedy’s famous Rose Garden he literally had paved over to turn the grounds into more of a Mar-a-Lago supper club look, one more step in his campaign to erase the memory of the Kennedys from Washington. By every indication, the plan is to replace them with the “superior genes” of his own organized crime family.

I’m sorry, “nuclear family.” I want to be respectful to that central idol/panacea my own people genuflect to after all, who have made the reign of this mad man possible.

Everything Greasy In This Guy

This UFC cheap shot sums up so much of everything so repulsive about this Fake President of a man. The faux masculinity it celebrates is but one part, that the highest attainment for human beings is to be but blood sport entertainment for their Epstein class overlords. The Roman Empire in all its moral decline is apparently Donald Trump’s north star.

The fact that they are put into a cage to duke it out is even more signaling-ish, given that cages are where animals are confined, and have been extensively used by this Biblical Beast to confine rounded up migrants. Even now, the Trump administration is plowing forward with their plan to procure as many warehouses in the US to cage dissidents as they need to. You know. All that filth and vermin that must be purged from the lifeblood of dumbed-down America?

The misogyny of his Pulp Fiction/MAGA Christian world is another. His vision of idealized womanhood is apparently make them into eye candy for great men like him, or get ‘em pregnant early and start having babies, recruit ‘em under-aged from trailer parks and rape them, or put butch versions of them into the ring too. Then blackball them from US military service and legitimate promotion. Then will his Christian Nationalist Republicans turn right around and demagogue transgenderism all day long for good measure, as if it’s a major political issue.

While Donald Trump loves to bully and intimidate people, he presents himself as some sort of heroic “big piece of man meat,” as Amanda Marcotte once so perfectly put it. He is white trash America’s idea of the chivalrous, oh-so-white White Knight protecting womanhood from dark-skinned “animals.”²

Then will he shamelessly turn around and vent his spleen toward any woman who dares tell the truth about him, or asks a question pertinent to his job. The destruction of the East Wing where his own wife once had an office speaks for itself.

He swore up and down that his precious ballroom would not touch any part of existing structure, then one day did the switcheroo and had contractors demolish it before anyone could stop him. No regard for legal process or keeping his word.

Playing To The Rubes

Trump’s attitude is that the American people are complete fools for trusting a man like him, and they get what they deserve. This is how he justifies his endless betrayal of America on behalf of Putin, Netanyahu, or whoever will threaten him with blackmail, or “put into his mouth” (bribery, shakedown—Micah 3:5).

An event like this with half-naked men in peak condition is, of course, the kind of prurient pastime men like him love the most. They wouldn’t be caught dead at a ballet, God forbid, where men prance around in tights. Such entertainment is only for metro-sexual wusses like Timothy Chalamee to champion. Real men can never get enough of slo-mo instant replays of tough guys in padded tights doing end-over-end somersaults while making that touchdown. That’s the difference?

Trump for his part can’t stop himself from openly lusting over other men, never missing an opportunity to publicly salivate over the fitness they so assiduously pursue.

It’s a fitness he himself can’t be bothered with of course. Our Nutjob-in-Chief insists that everyone’s health is determined by genes (a half-truth at best), and the fact that “we all have so much battery” in us that vigorous exercise depletes (an obvious lie).

Therefore does he exempt himself from having to put forth the effort and discipline to actually achieve the muscle tone he so mightily admires. But that’s a feature of the Trumpian approach to life. Genetically-superior specimens don’t have to actually attain to anything in order to gain status in this world. They just declare it to be so and be done with it.

It’s like the personal version of the political advice to, “just declare victory and go home.” Leave the mess for someone else to clean up, another pillar of Trumpian philosophy, with a proven formula:

-Just have a rich daddy buy things for you.

-Hire a lot of PR people to paint a false image to the world.

-Declare how great you are at every opportunity without having to actually live it or prove it.

-Make sure you have the best clothes and the best makeup artists to adorn the sepulchers of dead men’s bones you call your and your co-conspirators’ lives (Mt 23:27).

“Reality” TV Entertainment

Donald Trump, who has all his life apparently wanted to be a “star,” “celebrated” by everyone, should never have been given a reality TV show wherein he could “fire” people with sadistic impunity, and palm himself off as some kind of successful businessman when he was anything but in real life. Yet it was the popularity of this show that made him a household name and a bankable Presidential candidate.

His history with the WWE goes back decades, to the late 1980s when he hosted two “WrestleManias” at his casino in Atlantic City. Later on in 2007, he had a “Battle of the Billionaires,” wherein his wrestler won. Vince McMahon got his head shaved as part of the bet, because ritual humiliation is a regular feature of authoritarian, top-down hierarchical models of society.

Given that “professional wrestling” is filthy with staged theatrics and scripted outcomes, I don’t know whether that outcome was legitimate or not. Personally, I have a hard time believing a man as vain as Donald Trump would risk such public humiliation, and didn’t concoct the whole thing with McMahon as a mutually-profitable, pre-planned publicity stunt.

Decide for yourself.

But fakery is part and parcel of his “genes” for a long time. I do know they are friends and business partners to this day, and that Trump nominated his WWE-background billionaire wife Linda to be Secretary of Education.

If that alone isn’t contempt for the American people and their kids, I don’t know what is. Obsession with destroying Departments they love to hate (which Linda is committed to doing) is part and parcel of the Republican scorched earth policy of throwing the baby out with the bath water.³

Mixed Martial Arts on the other hand is anything but fake, yet Trump is credited by Dana White for saving the sport from oblivion when it was in its infancy. All the same, it’s all part and parcel of the world of blood sports, vulgar spectacle, mafia associations and Las Vegas venues, just the thing for the family values crowd.

Giving Chance A Facelift

The reason gambling used to be so offensive to Christians in US history is that fathers barely scraping by in pre-New Deal days would take their paychecks and gamble them away before they even got home, leaving their kids to go hungry. Nowadays Republican “fend for yourself” policies of destroying any social safety net more than compensate for the same outcome.

Likewise, gambling has been completely normalized, thanks largely to the vulgarity of “businessmen” like Donald Trump, who is fine with your kid going hungry as long as his kids can loot the US Treasury, and his army of insurrectionist thugs can get handouts for having committed violent crimes.

Likewise again, gambling has had a facelift, its named changed to the innocuous “gaming” label, with lots of organized crime and foreign mafia friends—“many very fine gentlemen”— still attached. Yes, this is his idea of family values and what America stands for 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, which he tried to steal from the People’s Hall.

Gloming On To Official Celebration

Meant to coincide with Flag Day and his own 80th birthday on June 14, the UFC freak show is part of a year-long series of “celebrations” of what he and his Christian Nationalist opportunist parasites consider to be appropriate ways to capture the essence of American history thus far—highly-commercialized blood sport spectacle, suitable for the decadence of the declining Roman Empire that the Founding Fathers were trying so assiduously to avoid.

The official, full name of this event is UFC Freedom 250, so consistent with the Republican penchant for slapping “freedom” onto every corrupt and hypocritical thing they do. It’s not to be be confused with America 250 however, the “United States Semiquincentennial Commission Act of 2016,”⁴ a piece of actual bi-partisan legislation enacted in the fading darkness of the Obama era.

That’s “Semi”-“Quin”-“Centennial” for all of you young people out there who have been clamoring to come up with a shorthand, social media meme to express what’s left of your patriotic spirit. Dispossessed by 50 years of near-straight Republican lies and psy ops, all designed to destroy the New Deal and systematically strip you of any future, just call it “250” and be done with it.

The official website for the anniversary is America250.org. Leave it of course to the Trump administration and all their enablers to come up with a parallel project perfectly designed to both hijack the moment while borrowing a similar branding to confuse matters.

It’s all so…Trumpian, the unique gift of taking credit for something you had nothing to do with, and probably have dedicated your life to undermining at that. But that’s all part of the joy of dancing on the grave of the American experiment, something Donald Trump has seemingly dedicated his life to. What he really admires is Russian mobster kleptocracy.

Every Way, Big And Small

Just one of the smallest and yet most telling ways we can see this man’s contempt for the American people is a very obvious one. He simply refuses to even try to get a decent night’s sleep! Instead, he stays up all night, or at least to the point of exhaustion, to tweet out the most petty, delusional, censorious, self-righteous sentiments imaginable, acting like a 12 year-old “mean girl,” rather than the “Leader of the Free World.”

Then will he get his sleep “during office hours,” right in front of cameras and the world! He might as well plop a bronze middle finger on his desk while he does so, for all the respect it shows.

There are few jobs more stressful and demanding than that of the Presidency of the United States, especially for a man Trump’s age. It is a very serious job, but he never took it seriously at all because he’s lazy and he’s just not a serious person.

He is the perennial two year-old running around the house making messes for adults to clean up after. Not only did he nearly crash the world economy with his daft tariffs scheme, he’s done so again with the Strait of Hormuz. Yet now he says he’s bored with all that and talking about plans to attack Cuba!

As I’ve pointed out in the past, Donald Trump never intended to actually become President, just use our “sacred election process” to burnish his brand to start a media company to rival Fox or CNN. Yet did this man and his MAGA sycophants endlessly assail Joe Biden with the moniker “Sleepy Joe.”

By now we’ve apparently forgotten how contemptuous it’s always been to presume to govern by tweet. The whole thing is so absurd, yet he’s been doing it since 2017!

It’s simply hard to me to accept that Donald Trump is not aware of how unacceptable all this is. And yet he, enabled by his exploiters, continues to get away with it.

I’ve Got A Convert!

The fight is supposed to have a crowd of about 4,300 ring side, with another “85,000” watching by big screen at the Elipse. Of the tickets to the lawn, 1,000 are controlled by Trump, 200 by UFC President Dana White and another 200 by Ari Emanuel of TKO Group Holdings. The rest are supposedly for active-duty military, but only those who are in shape, are UFC enthusiasts and who pay their own way there.

In other words, more image mongering by Trump. And he’s hinting that maybe those McDonald’s arches on the lawn will become a permanent fixture!

Moreover, one fighter dropped out, citing his disdain for Trump, and even suggesting he’s the Antichrist! You see, it’s starting to happen!

But if MMA isn’t your thing, not to worry. Part of Trump’s summer of celebration will be an official Grand Prix around the National Mall in August, I kid you not. And if that’s not soul-sucking enough for you, he’s also got a “Patriot Games” for teenagers in mind:

“In the fall we will host the first ever Patriot Games, an unprecedented, four-day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes,” Trump said during the America250 video message. “One young man and one young woman from each state and territory.” ⁵

The parallel to the dystopian movie The Hunger Games, implying the same competition format is so in everyone’s face that he may decide to cancel it too, just like the recent debacle over his concert.⁶

But it’s out there. Yes, he did suggest it.

Notes:

1. Like Goebbel’s famous quote, “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture,’ I reach for my gun.” Fascists hate intellectual discussion, debate, review—all the normal elements of civilized political process, because they have nothing to offer except violence, domination, posing and symbolism as their solution everything. ↩︎
2. A term lifted right out of the Talmud, referring to all Gentiles. https://donclasenseriousguy.com/racism-the-evil-that-just-wont-die-part-2/#:~:text=baby%2E-,But,Kabbalah Trump loves to promote Israeli hasbara as fact, regularly exaggerating statistics such as “Iran killed 45,000 protestors, maybe 60” while calling their government “animals.” (The highest actually alleged is around 30,000). https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ts98t1KrHfE Meanwhile he merrily goes about to build concentration warehouses around the US while unleashing his ICE agents on the public, who truly do act like feral animals if allowed to do so. The idea that Donald Trump gives a rip about dead protestors in Iran or anywhere is rich. ↩︎
3. If they don’t like the teaching models, they can always improve them. And as for funding, if all the taxes collected went to the Department of Education, and it was committed to distributing funds across the country equitably, America could make good on a promise of a merit-based, equal opportunity for all society. But no, school funding is based on local, usually property taxes, which guarantees that poor neighborhoods stay chronically under-funded. More Confederate Christianity. https://donald-trump-antichrist.com/cultural-vs-spiritual-christianity/#:~:text=Confederate%20Christianity ↩︎
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Semiquincentennial ↩︎
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Task_Force_on_Celebrating_America’s_250th_Birthday#:~:text=1%5D-,On,12%5D ↩︎
6. Once the performers discovered that they had been misled into thinking it was part of the official national celebration, only to discover it was part of Trump’s effort to hijack it for Freedom250 (note below), all but Vanilla Ice dropped out. At that, Trump cancelled the whole thing. ↩︎