For a long time, I have been sick of writing about Anti-Trump bias, anti-Trump hate, Trump Derangement and “Get Trump” indoctrination and propaganda the Axis media, I really have. After all, it has been more than a decade since the Post 2016 Election Ethics Train Wreck first jumped the rails. But these awful, unethical fanatic unethical people keep getting worse, lying, and saying increasingly crazy things. Among the worst of the worst, ex-CNN hack Jim Acosta, who CNN elevated to White House Correspondent during Trump’s first term, compared the court ordered erasure of the President’s name from the Kennedy Center to the fall of the Berlin Wall. He really did. These people don’t even realize how insane they sound to normal people. Wrote one wag on “X”: “I missed the time when people were SHOT DEAD trying to get into the Kennedy Center for 40 years.”
The Trump Outrage Du Jour yesterday was the Flag Day UFC cage match on the White House lawn. On PBS—BOY am I glad not a penny of my taxes go to that propaganda machine!—erudite professional intellectual David Brooks provided Exhibit A of the class snobbery that has always been the root of so much Trump hostility. Asked about the event, Brooks huffed,
“Well, I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don’t anybody say America’s in cultural decline!”
Got it. Because Brooks doesn’t enjoy the UFC, the White House hosting a popular sports event means America is in decline. I don’t care for either, but if I had an Uzi at my head and was forced to pick one, I’d take a UFC cage match over one of President Obama’s hip-hop artists he hosted when he was President. Funny, Brooks didn’t mention JFK’s preference for Robbins and Bernstein. Let’s see: Barack and Michelle feted Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe: Common, Queen Latifah, Big Sean, and Chance the Rapper, among others.
You know who would have lovedthe cage match? Teddy Roosevelt. He was the first President I thought of when Trump’s spectacular was announced. Young Teddy was a boxer and a lieftime fan of “manly arts.” His most famous speech is titled “The Man in the Arena,” which I wrote about here.
Progressives don’t much care for Teddy, one of Trump’s favorite Presidents (and mine). They keep waxing poetic about Kennedy, who has a large mausoleum that holds cultural events for the rich glitterati of D. C. memorializing his largely negligible Presidency. Kennedy was also maintaining sexual affairs with the help of the Secret Service as he and Jackie posed as the ideal couple, but he pretended to be admirable well. And he went to Harvard.
Ann Althouse reports that, contrary to how the UFC event was reported as Trump celebrating himself (Flag Day is his birthday) didn’t have any birthday celebration vibe at all:
“The event was called UFC Freedom 250, and, true to that name, it turned out to be about the UFC and the United States of America. Three days before his birthday, Trump had said — quoted at USA Today — “You don’t have to wish me happy birthday because I’m not happy about that birthday that I’m having. That’s a number that I never thought really too much about. It’s not a number I like, but I’m here, nevertheless.” And at that huge event on the White House lawn on the evening of his birthday, last night, I don’t think there was even a passing mention of his birthday.”
Fact Don’t Matter, however. All that matters is to denigrate President Trump for anything and everything. What kind of nation has a news media that devotes itself to projecting hate on its elected leader? Answer: a very, very sick and confused one. Here is the current headline at Salon, the virulently leftist site:
Nice.
Ethics Alarms 
Not sure I’d call JFK “largely negligible;” I think the Cuban Missile Crisis (although its importance has waned) and his support for the man on the moon program put his presidency on the map. Beyond that, though, the file does thin out and has thinned a lot more in recent years as the Schlesinger hagiography has been eclipsed.
Although she wasn’t on the White House Lawn, my mind goes back to Marylin Monroe’s performance of Happy Birthday for JFK on national tv. I also remember his and the other men’s reaction to her performance as well. As a child I didn’t realize the circumstances surrounding that event until years later. I was greatly disappointed to learn JFK was not the person I thought because until then he had been one of my heroes.
was the public allowed to attend at reasonable prices? if so the left is estopped from protestesting once you see the prices to attend to Knicks Game, or the World cup (neither of which I personally don’t give a rats’s tail about, i have an underwear draw to straighten out)
The question is the left capable of celebrating america or can they only destroy America?
as far as kennedy, there was brief moment of camelot, which history has subsequently dismanteled.
If Salon was honest, they’d ask, “Should you Feel guilty about rooting against the U.S. in the war with Iran?”
Seeing such a large portion of our population root against the United States is deeply troubling to me. It halfway makes me want to denaturalize people who do so. Start with Jane Fonda!
Personally, I think bare-knuckle fist fighting is nuts, but having a bare-knuckle fist fight on the White House lawn is a great fuck you to the man-hating left. Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t bring in professional wrestlers. It could have been “rasslin’ on the White House lawn,” which would have driven the left nuts and been wonderfully redolent of Andy Jackson, the president I most compare Trump to. They could have even had them rasslin’ right inside the White House and breaking things.
Agreed. I thiought jumping motorcycles and other things was a nice touch. too. Talk about appealing to the supposed “common man.” The guy calling Michelle Obama a man was a bit much, though.
jvb
As someone mentioned-
Even if you don’t like UFC or that genre of anything, what the president hosted was not going to turn anyone’s stomach other than people who already fundamentally hate celebrating the USA or people who are so Trump deranged that they were going to hate anything he does anyway.
————
Did one of the performers actually call Michelle Obama a man?
If David Brooks wants to look at some of the rap lyrics that Obama seemed to admire or the topless transgender people at Biden’s celebration, I’m sure many conservatives would like that conversation.
Since I am a bit more traditional, I didn’t like the language on live tv. For me, when men are together just being men, I don’t care about f bombs. When it’s live TV, I wouldn’t prefer that type of langauge.
You could call me a hypocrite for being less concerned with the violence though. Maybe you would be right. I don’t know. Organized fighting really isn’t wanton violence though.
They should have put it on pay per view with an R rating. That would have driven the lefties nuts.
Boy, I misspelled “Du Jour” and I had to wait for a French reader to tell me. Thank goodness for our international readership! As for me, I am awash in shame…
Lefties prefer drag queen shows and chest flashing on the White House lawn.
Idiots