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When the White House becomes a fight club

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17.06.2026

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When the White House becomes a fight club

A cage fight on the South Lawn helps us understand violence, politics and spectacle in the Age of Trump

Published June 17, 2026 6:30AM (EDT)

Are you not entertained?

None of this is normal. The longer we are stuck in this place, the longer it will take to escape.

Last Sunday night, Flag Day, on the White House South Lawn, in a ring under a 600-ton, 92-foot-high steel structure called “the Claw” — so bright it reportedly distracted pilots landing at Reagan National — an estimated 4,300 people (including 1,200 military servicemembers) watched mixed martial artists battle on a hot and humid night to commemorate America’s........

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