{"id":70189,"date":"2026-06-19T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70189"},"modified":"2026-06-19T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:49:09","slug":"trumps-white-trashing-of-the-white-house-ufc-freedom-250-was-a-costly-trump-and-ratings-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70189","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s White-Trashing of the White House (UFC Freedom 250) Was a Costly Trump and Ratings Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Sunday Donald Trump threw himself an 80th birthday bash at White House. The party featured a typically classless Trumpy presentation of sweaty, half-naked men beating each other up. And in addition to staining the dignity of the People’s House, it exploited the occasion to enrich the Trump family and a few selected billionaire pals.<\/p>\n

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The UFC Freedom 250 fight was sponsored by Trump’s friend and donor, Dana White, whose UFC enterprise counts Trump among its investors. And even though the UFC said that they are paying for the production, It will cost taxpayers millions of dollars in security, traffic, sanitation, and municipal costs. But don\u2019t believe the hype that this is a \u201csport\u201d<\/em> that vast numbers of the American people flock to. Most of them opposed the yokel brawl-fest, including Republicans.<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump\u2019s White Trashing of the White House with His Tacky UFSemen Fest Even Disgusts Republicans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Confirming the popularity – or lack thereof – for this event, the ratings reported are something less than stellar. It aired only on Paramount+, who had the exclusive rights to the program, and is run by another couple of Trump’s billionaire pals, Larry and David Ellison. According to the Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“Nielsen streaming figures show 7 million people in the U.S. watched the seven-bout UFC card. An additional 1.2 million people in Latin America tuned in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the record, the previous streaming UFC fight drew<\/a><\/strong> an average of about 5 million viewers. So this improved on that airing. But this event was predicted to outperform prior fights by wide margins. After all, it cost $60 million to produce, and had the benefit of White House hype.<\/p>\n

Dana White predicted it would get a “Super Bowl”<\/em> audience. The Super Bowl routinely draws about 125 million viewers. So he was only off by about 118 million. And when Trump invited to him stage another event on the White House lawn, White declined saying that “I need a year to recover financially.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Another convenient benchmark is the recent NBA Finals. Game 5 of the Finals last week averaged<\/a><\/strong> 24.5 million viewers, more than three times the UFC audience.<\/p>\n

Despite the disappointing viewership, Trump was celebrating the event early Friday morning on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>. He posted four different comments with videos of himself at the fight. Naturally, he was making himself the center of attention, rather than the participants or the 250th anniversary of the nation.<\/p>\n

The fact that Trump continues to brag about the failed UFC event is a perfect corollary to his bragging about the Iran war that was also a failure. No matter how badly he does at anything, he pretends it was a victory. That’s especially true with regard to Iran<\/a><\/strong>. And his gullible devotees have no other choice but to kneel and agree. Because that’s how cults work.<\/p>\n

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