When it comes to Donald Trump, no idea is ever too absurd for him to try to actualize. His next move after taking Medicaid from millions is, apparently, hosting a UFC pay-per-view event at the White House.
Yes, this is an actual thing he said at his recent rally in Iowa. Trump has already turned the White House lawn into a car showroom for Teslas, so a UFC event is absolutely not beneath him. It might be beneath the office, but certainly not beneath Trump — one could argue that nothing is. But how did we even get here?
Trump has declared that in honor of America 250, there will be a slew of celebrations throughout the year commemorating the milestone. He said national parks, battlefields across the country, and historic sites will host special parties marking the occasion. Never mind that the greatest current threat to national parks just so happens to be his own administration — Trump had the idea of turning another place into a battlefield: the White House lawn.
His name-dropping of Dana White is not incidental. The two have had a long-standing relationship that began when Trump, as White’s saving grace, offered him a venue for UFC events at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. White, for his part, eventually returned the favor and was reportedly one of the main reasons Joe Rogan gave his last-minute endorsement for Trump’s second term at the White House.
President Trump even attended a UFC event in Newark last month and has previously attended another in Miami—and unlike at the Kennedy Center, he didn’t get booed. He even did a walkout and was cheered by just about everyone in attendance. Everything about this suggests that hosting a UFC event at the White House is exactly the type of spectacle Trump would pursue.
People on social media are astonished. One user noted that this would turn the U.S. into a global laughingstock. Another said it sounds like a story that would have run on the satirical site The Onion circa 2015. But by far the comment that kept recurring was how this felt like something straight out of the Mike Judge film Idiocracy. With one user joking, “Idiocracy is a documentary.”
UFC fights on the White House lawn really feels like one of those 2015 Onion stories about a potential Trump Presidencyhttps://t.co/CXIBFc5E3l
— Nick Field (@nick_field90) July 4, 2025
Holy sh*t. Trump just announced a UFC fight on the White House lawn with 25,000 people attending.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 4, 2025
We’re rapidly becoming the laughingstock of the world.
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Idiocracy was a documentary https://t.co/nRT5YmcKXB
— Ryan Satin (@ryansatin) July 4, 2025
Idiocracy is about a regular guy who gets cryogenically “frozen” for 500 years as an experiment. The whole shtick of the movie is that he was chosen because of how unimpressive he was and how nobody would miss him if he disappeared. When he wakes up, he finds a society whose stupidity knows no bounds, facing famine because people are trying to grow crops using Mountain Dew instead of water. Terry Crews plays the president, who turns every federal meeting into a WWE-like event. The film flopped on release but has since gained cult status simply because of how realistic it keeps getting with every passing year.
When Mike Judge was asked how he managed to create a satire that feels so prescient, he said, “I’m no prophet, I was off by 490 years.” But perhaps what’s so grim is that, at least in Idiocracy, they actually wanted the smartest guy in charge. This is a worse situation. If you haven’t watched it yet, go check it out. We laugh to keep ourselves from crying, after all.
