Month: June 2026

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The Obamas left the White House over a decade ago. And yet they persist, rent-free, in some people’s minds.

Sunday was Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration for his birthday.

The bread-and-circuses event featured UFC fighting at its heart, with Trump in the front row.

After a win, fighter Josh Hokit praised himself, Jesus, and trump. He then made a wild yet familiar claim about former First Lady Michelle Obama.

‘Am I right, America?’

On Sunday, June 14, the UFC conducted a series of fights on the lawn of the White House, sponsored by the likes of Polymarket and Saudi Arabia.

Briefly overshadowing the demolished East Wing, a (hopefully) temporary UFC fighting arena was erected on the lawn.

Branded as Freedom 250, it did not take place on or represent America’s upcoming 250th anniversary. Instead, it took place on Donald Trump’s birthday. He is now 80.

The gauche display was, simply put, beyond parody. The Idiocracy parallels are difficult to ignore.

However, one of the most contemptible moments of the night came courtesy of Josh Hokit, a UFC fighter with a penchant for inflammatory commentary.

“Shout out to Trump,” he began his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, “for having the balls to put some s–t like this on.”

Hokit then praised his religion’s central figure, Jesus, as “more incredible than the Incredible Hok.” Here, he equates part of his surname to the Marvel hero, the Hulk.

He then made a remark about fighter Alex Pereira’s mother. It was sexual in nature.

“And lastly,” he announced while grinning, “Michelle Obama is a man.”

Anticipating cheers, he asked: “Am I right, America?” The reaction sounded more like groans — even from a deeply Trump-friendly crowd.

What was the point of this?

These days, people note that it is odd — if not unexpected — for Donald Trump to appear so fixated on President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 race and has been out of office for what feels like the longest 17 months in world history.

Insulting President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama over a decade after they left the White House is incredibly strange.

There is a fixation upon the Obama presidency by the American right. It was a time of social progress. The reactionary backlash to these positive changes — and to our first Black president — doomed us to over a decade of Trump.

In the former First Lady, conservatives find an educated Black woman, one of their deepest fears.

Bigots imagining her to be a transgender woman or as a secret man pulling some sort of The Birdcage act has been going on since long before any of us had heard the word transvestigating.

Whatever the goal or “reasoning” behind it, claiming that Black women appear more masculine than white women has a historic role in racism.

Most of our culture’s beauty standards are strongly influenced by white European beauty standards, which are inherently political. These social constructs are used to reinforce both systemic and personal racism.

What’s really odd is that Hokit would have been, what, a high schooler when the Obamas left the White House? He would have been a tween at most when President Obama first took office.

Cultural malice and this sort of vice signaling don’t have to make sense. It’s arguably not supposed to.

At the end of the day, Hokit is announcing that he loves Donald Trump and hates whatever Michelle Obama represents to him. For the audience to whom he’s speaking, that’s more than enough.

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As you’ve likely heard by now, the New York Knicks won their first NBA championship since 1973 over the weekend.

Though the series wrapped up in San Antonio rather than Manhattan, several stars were still on hand, including Prince Harry, who put in a surprise appearance.

But while Harry was certainly among the biggest names in attendance, his seat location had some royal watchers raising their eyebrows.

Instead of rubbing elbows with the celebrities occupying the coveted courtside seats, Harry found himself sitting in the eighth row, while stars like Timothee Chalamet and Ben Stiller enjoyed prime real estate much closer to the action.

For a man who once stood on Buckingham Palace balconies before cheering crowds, the eighth row probably wasn’t exactly what he had in mind.

Harry attended the game without Meghan Markle or the couple’s children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. Instead, he was accompanied by JP Lane, a U.S. Army veteran and Purple Heart recipient who is expected to compete in the next Invictus Games.

The prince was reportedly already in San Antonio for the Warrior Games and was invited to attend the matchup by Silver.

In fact, Harry was seated near Silver during the game, which may explain why he wasn’t in the celebrity-packed courtside section.

Still, social media users couldn’t help but notice the contrast.

While Chalamet, Stiller and other Knicks superfans occupied the highly visible celebrity row, Harry’s seat was several rows behind the action. And yes, plenty of royal critics immediately seized on the optics.

Of course, Harry wasn’t the only recognizable face sitting outside the VIP section.

Sydney Sweeney, Scooter Braun, and Billy Baldwin were also reportedly seated away from the courtside spotlight.

Knicks superfan Spike Lee was also in attendance, and Harry haters alleged that he snubbed the Duke of Sussex.

“If it was a friendly interaction Spike would’ve first shaken Harry’s hand – not point at him,” one social media user wrote, according to GB News.

“Harry went to high 5 but when Spike ignored that Harry followed through with the hand to touch his chest,” another added.

But it appears that Spike was just joking when he declined to take Harry’s hand. Seconds later, the two laughed and embraced.

The outing came just hours after another event that likely generated far more headlines in royal circles.

Back in London, members of the royal family gathered for Trooping the Colour, the annual celebration of King Charles’ official birthday. Harry and Meghan were once again absent from the festivities, continuing a streak that dates back several years.

Instead of military pageantry and palace balconies, Harry spent his Saturday night watching basketball in Texas.

And while he may not have landed a courtside seat, he still managed to get people talking.

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