Trump’s Fight Night Was as Absurd as Promised

Mr. Leitch is a contributing editor at New York magazine and the author of the novels “How Lucky” and “Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride.”

If you found it bizarre, surreal and downright flabbergasting to witness the spectacle of the Ultimate Fighting Championship holding a massive event on the White House lawn, with sweaty men being escorted from the Oval Office to a glowing octagon to go punch each other as the president and his war cabinet cheered them on, you were not alone. You should know that the........

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