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Trump is set to host a UFC fight on the White House lawn next year, with Dana White confirming the event as part of the US's 250th independence celebrations.

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[–] Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago

So he is having two people fight in a cage on his front lawn for his amusement... That definitely doesn't sound like dictator behavior.

[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 30 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Jesus Christ... We're hitting peak Idiocracy so much faster than the documentary expected.

[–] RandoMcRanderton@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Brought to you by Carl's Junior. If you're so smart why don't you say it?

[–] DexiMachina@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

At least Camacho had a three point plan.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

UFC and the bro crowd that watches UFC are the ones that loves trump. He knows his crowd

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 18 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

This just oozes classiness and decorum.

Hey, americans, you should deffo not be embarrassed about this. No way, not one little bit!!!

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 32 points 20 hours ago

Did anyone expect a low IQ felon rapist to have class?

This is what America looks like when people let the village idiots out-vote them.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Wow this is peak white trash. Is kid rock going to sing the national anthem?

[–] RhondaSandTits@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Kid Rock will be there to sing Fortunate Son

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 5 points 18 hours ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 18 points 23 hours ago

Please don't give them any ideas

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 53 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Mountain Dew Camacho was a better president

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

God, he would be so preferable at this point.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago

Not from USA; but.....Terry Crews would be a great leader; he is way to nice to actually run though.

[–] Estiar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 18 hours ago

Gosh. I thought this was the onion for a second

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 23 points 21 hours ago

I hope it flops even harder than his stupid military birthday parade.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 39 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This is what happens when Biff Tannen becomes Dear Leader.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

At least Biff Tannen can conceive of a plan and carry it through.

Without help from his father.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Tannen can read an almanac. I don't think that Trump could manage that.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I think he’s functionally illiterate. I’ve never seen him read for more than a few seconds.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Honestly that would be an upgrade at this point.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 142 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

In the closing ceremonies of USAs existence, the man who destroyed it will shine a light on himself as a hero.

Where are the epstein files, kiddy diddler?

[–] mere@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Saw the title and was like 'haha funny, imagine'. Then 'wait, it's not satire??'

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

Anything to avoid releasing the Epstein Files.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

The president's limo will be there on the front lawn, up on blocks with it's wheels and hood missing. A few barrels will be interspresed with fire for warmpth.

Trump will be seated on a beaten up old lawn chair, the kind that your parents had in the 70s and never got around to replacing. To his right there's a styrofoam cooler; the kind you get at a gas station when your heading out fishing with your pa. It's filled with Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Melania will put her hair up in a Peggy Bundy beehive and squeeze her aging ass into pair of daisy dukes and cowboy boots.

Joe Rogan appears and kneels before Trump before the match begins. But instead of kissing a ring, it's a beer tab.

The festivities begin with Kid Rock catterwalling out what he thinks is the national anthem, but is actually just a bunch of random lyrics he put together during the last time he blacked out.

Dean Cain is the "celebrity" referee for the match and Kevin Sorbo is there to provide some colour commentary alongside Rogan.

Due to the unpopularity of all of them, no one wants to volunteer to be the people in the match, so it eventually Trump sends ICE out to round up some homeless people and it quickly devolves into bumfights_dot_com

It'll be great!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 points 21 hours ago

I can see this now as a Street Fighter level background.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I hate that you bring up Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo in the same sentence.

They're actually working on some weird-ass Christian golf comedy/drama movie together, with Dean producing and Kevin starring. My brother worked on it for about a week or so.

He only agreed to it as it was a way for him to get his foot in the door for the industry, and he was a fan of the Hercules show when he was a kid. Also Lois & Clark was apparently our grandma's favorite show, so it was like this weird amalgamation of feelings when he went to work on it.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

White trash all the way

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The nonfiction version of "Idiocracy" brought to you LIVE! Stay tuned for the collapse.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As always, I must point out that president Camacho actually cared about Americans and when presented with a problem he was too stupid to solve he sought out the advice of smarter people to make use of in solving it.

President Camacho was a way better president than Trump.

[–] knatschus@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Then let me point out that Camacho was the president at the end of the idiocracy period.

When people point to trump and idiocracy they mean he's the start of it.

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[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A true, worthy god-emperor would make it a fight to the death and compete personally.

[–] Thaurin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, but also cheat by poisoning his gladiator slave opponent before the match.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] blattrules@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That’s insulting to Camacho, I’d take him over Trump any day.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 26 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

President Camacho was a fine leader in that he was willing to course correct when presented with actual evidence and actually tried to help his country by hiring an expert.

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[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 11 points 21 hours ago
[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 20 hours ago

I suppose it is a small mercy that Hulk Hogan isn't around anymore...

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 14 points 23 hours ago

Your tax dollars at work.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do tacky people generally know that they're tacky, or is part of tackiness being unaware?

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 day ago

It is so tasteless and yet so fitting. We will have an abundance of great imagery for the history books.

[–] Susaga@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

What better celebration is there for Trump's America than locking people in cages?

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] klu9@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the UFC fight {...} will involve fighter weigh-ins at the Lincoln Memorial

What next? Mandingo fights on MLK's grave?

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